One of the most important items on anyone’s list is health. Another important item on our list is to look good or look younger. “Hair health” is therefore something that is both important AND good for us. With a healthy, full head of hair, we feel younger and we look healthier. Hair vitamins are touted as a natural hair loss treatment because they are not drugs such as minoxidil or finasteride which are applied to the scalp or taken orally.

Hair vitality supplements are supported by years of research and are safe to take. They can promote existing hair growth and can reduce hair loss or shedding. Proper nourishment in general will go a long way to make our skin, bodies and hair look better. Along with stress, hormonal changes, age, menopause, post-pregnancy hormones, heredity and physical damage from the environment and styling trends, poor nutrition is a major factor in our desire for a viable treatment for thinning hair. If we complete the process with supplements that can fill in the gaps for healthy growth we should have a great start to a healthy thinning hair treatment. But, is this enough?

Hair also needs to have healthy roots or follicles that are not only nourished properly, but also have a clean environment to grow in. Our scalp must be clean and free of debris. A natural shampoo with no sulfites that can cleanse the hair and yet exfoliate the scalp can give the follicles the best fighting chance. A natural conditioner that softens, smoothes and gives hair a feeling of volume is also a must. Some folks also use an additional serum which very lightly coats the hair shaft in order to prevent breakage from styling and heat. In addition, hair extensions and new styling techniques can add to our defense armory…But, is THIS enough?

A third area of treatment that can be used in conjunction with those above is Low Level Laser Therapy or LLLT. Laser hair therapy is the latest natural hair loss treatment that uses cool or red light lasers in a laser hair brush to target and stimulate the hair follicles to grow thicker, stronger, shinier hair. This male and female hair loss treatment is as simple to use as taking the vitamins, using the correct shampoo and choosing the right conditioner. A curved surface attached to an ergonomic handle holds up to 35 lasers (in the best system, the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser).

The lasers penetrate through current hair and target the follicles at the depth of the blood flow that support them. Increasing this blood flow better nourishes and cleans away toxins from these “hair birthing chambers” to give each follicle its best chance to produce the strongest hair that stays happily in its follicle for the longest time possible. This natural hair loss treatment needs to be used for as long as you want to keep this new head of healthy hair…just as the proper nutrition and shampoo need to be continued.

As with exercise, it is best used every other day, but in only 15-20 minutes of portable use the correct amount of stimulation is delivered. LLLT does not interfere with any other medications and can be used even in conjunction with the most popular prescription drugs. Any ethnicity, skin or hair type can benefit and LLLT provides a no side effect addition to a healthy hair regimen.

I’ve found that this three-pronged approach of proper nutrition, a clean scalp and laser hair restoration is the smart way to look younger and feel better. Now for that reference to exercise…a dose of that can only help us feel and look our best. That should be enough!

If we could only grab those hands of time and start to turn them backwards we could stop at whatever age we liked the best (and maybe stay there for a while). Well, we may not be able to go back THAT far, but we can sure shave off a few years with all of the latest technology out there today. We can also use some very old tech to look younger too…

Scientists are now realizing that exercise not only helps with digestion, lower blood pressure, muscle definition, strength and balance, it also helps make our skin look younger too! About an hour two times a week of cardio-type exercise can take up to 20 years off of the look of our skin’s life at the cellular level which leads to more collagen production, moisture retention and elasticity. Give me 5 years at this point and I’d be happy…better get back on the bike, treadmill, elliptical! Some laser and resurfacing techniques also do the same but it seems like the exercise factor would take care of a lot more with one method and cost less too!

Diet is another way to look younger all over.

By diet I mean first of all a healthy diet. Lots of greens, veges, lean protein such as fish and water along with nuts, legumes, olive oil and a little red wine! The Mediterranean diet as it is called seems to not only keep weight off, it protects the cap-like ends of your chromosomes called telomeres. Shorter telomeres make us older and longer or protected telomeres keep us younger. Damage occurs when we eat a poor diet, eat sugary foods and drinks, smoke and have a high stress lifestyle. Darn, but all of this sounds like what we already know, but perhaps choose not to follow completely! Isn’t there a quick fix?

Ends up there is a new nutritional supplement that is now available without prescription. It is a powerful anti-oxidant called TA-65. It lowers blood pressure, glucose levels and somehow protects those end-caps on our genes! An extract from the astragalus plant, or milk vetch, it sprouts from a bean or legume. Long used in Chinese medicine, it is also said to be used for diabetes, heart health and certain immune diseases. Of course, this may not be a way to look very much younger in itself…but I bet WITH the correct diet and exercise it can sure help. I feel the clock ticking slower, maybe even going backward as we investigate!

It is true that our skin, nails and hair show how healthy our insides are, and there are ways to better hair health as well. Thick, shiny hair whether long or short just screams youth! As we age, women tend to thin all over our heads, so we need a female hair loss treatment or prevention. Men tend to bald in patches, so they need a laser hair therapy that works for them. Of course, with all of the attention and research on organics, we want it to be a natural hair loss treatment as well! Enter the new format of a long used treatment using cool or low level lasers as therapy (LLLT) for aging follicles. Much like protecting the end-caps of our chromosomes, the correct use of a laser hair brush can increase the level of nutrients getting to each follicle so that our hair grows thicker like it did when we were younger. Old, tired follicles can be treated to produce healthier hairs. This laser hair therapy for women CAN be used on men as well! It also is safe for all skin and hair types including dyed or treated hair. The Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser is compact and easy to use for only 15-20 minutes every other day for optimum hair follicle stimulation.

So, to turn back those hands of the clock…or at least to slow them down…two newly recognized products can augment the traditional diet and exercise knowledge that we already have. Let’s get started…we aren’t getting any younger! (or ARE we?????)

In fairytales Queens and commoners have looked in the mirror to find either a more wicked and ugly or a more beautiful and softer side of themselves. Others have passed through the mirror to enter another world altogether where time changes forward or backward for better or for worse! For us regular folk, we see change coming at us full throttle in the form of wrinkles, splotches, sagging and loss. Some of us go with the flow of natural aging and accept all of this change and others of us try to turn that clock back to an earlier time. What is the expression that says “it’s a good thing eyesight is one of the first things to go…otherwise we’d all go crazy seeing all the age spots, wrinkles and balding patches” or something like that. Well, let’s put on our glasses and look this one straight in the eye!

Creams and Botox can cure the wrinkles, acid peels and microderm abrasion can get rid of the spots, but what about a treatment for thinning hair? There seems to be a lot more choices and a lot of hype out there. Let’s get to the facts.

Hair follicles are a static number. We are born with a certain amount and as we grow from baby (baby fine hair) to young adult the production of hair increases and it gets thicker, curlier, straighter, blonder or darker with age. Every follicle takes a break now and then as it “rests” and then starts production all over again. Hair from these resting follicles drops out and we shed about 100 hairs per day on average. However, as we age, these follicles get tired just like us and either produce a mere shadow of their former selves or they give up completely. Unfortunately, this can even happen to us in our 30s and 40s. THIS is when we still have pretty good eyesight though…so it is not a pleasant sight! We need to find a healthy, natural hair loss treatment that can keep our youthful looks.

There is a shampoo revolution in the works. We went from washing hair only when it got uber greasy and we could spread out that “shine” with 100 brush strokes a day. Then we started washing our hair every day, with lots of suds and even lathering twice each time to have a clean, healthy scalp…but it also caused damage to the hair we did have. Next came the “suds are bad” phase. More shampoos touted a chemical free shampoo that uses only natural products to get out the grease. I still couldn’t pronounce anything much on the labels! The current trend is not to shower out (think hot water, chlorine AND shampoos) the grease, but to once again embrace it! No, not to look like a “hippy” but to apply a cream that is made of essential oils and aloe…then rinse it out and style. It is made to NOT have to be used with any conditioners, masks, oils or sprays that we’ve been using to put the life back into our hair after we’ve taken it out with shampoos.

So…now that we can keep it clean, we can hopefully keep our scalp clean too! Clogged pores or follicles can inhibit hair growth. But there is another factor that keep us from having a full head of hair. AGE. UGH! We cannot stop the aging process, but we can stop the aging of our follicles. With the latest device called a Personal Hair Therapy Laser, Nutreve has come up with the best laser hair brush on the market today. Its innovation in laser hair restoration is amazing. The smooth curved surface of the “brush”, so called as it is the size of a regular paddle brush, does not pull at your hair or hurt your scalp. Its 35 cool low level lasers (LLL) penetrate to just the depth of the hair follicle itself and stimulates the flow of blood to feed, nourish and remove waste from the follicle to allow it to produce the strongest, shiniest hair possible.

The science is behind it and it sure beats surgery, pills, messy goo on your scalp and all of the money that goes along with these “treatments”. For a one time purchases that uses rechargeable batteries and has an amazing satisfaction guarantee, there is no better male OR female hair loss treatment out there. Laser hair restoration is noninvasive and can be used on ANY hair type and for any ethnicity. With a clean head and a laser hair brush at work, you can safely check your reflection.

What’s in YOUR mirror?