You’ll see a lot of nutrients touted for hair loss from the benign suggestion to drink green tea to taking a gammolinolenic acid such as evening primrose oil. Some of these ingredients are included in various hair formulations listed. HerAlopecia.com and Hairlosstalk.com offer a list of diet and dietary supplements, and both Web sites are probably a good place to start to, determine if you want to try them. Both offer this advice: Consider supplements as complementary treatments helping to give you, optimal health, HerAlopecia.com also says that you need to allow four to eight weeks to see results from a nutritional change, so be patient.
But remember: The word “natural” doesn’t automatically mean “safe”. If you take any supplements you should do so with the same amount of care you would take when using over-the-counter or prescription medicines.
These things can be powerful stuff.
For instance, evening primrose oil is suggested as a remedy for a number of ailments–psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, breast pain and breast cysts, and the symptoms of men’opause, as well as hair loss. There is not a large body of scientific evidence for these and other claims even though there is a wealth of anecdotal and historic evidence.
Nonetheless, according to the Aetna Intelihealth Web, site, people with seizures or who are allergic to plants in the Onagraceae family should avoid taking it.
Other side effects may include headache, stomach pain, nausea and loose stools. Seizures might also occur if taken with phenothiazine drugs such as Thorazine.
We are here not to say such treatments do not work or to dissuade you from taking them, but toget you to think before you ingest.
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