Ways to Keep Your Hair Healthy

The health of your hair is often difficult to detect until hair loss or graying problems occur, and then you realize that your thick, black hair is gone forever. Hair is not only a part of your appearance, it also reflects your health.

According to the World Health Organization, healthy hair is defined as "elastic hair, natural luster, and no dandruff." You can check whether you have a hair health crisis by examining your hair's dandruff, oil production, cuticle, hair distribution, and hair loss. The normal amount of hair loss for an average person is about 100 strands per day. As long as it does not exceed this range, it is normal.

Influencing factors

1. Unbalanced nutrition

Protein, vitamins and minerals are one of the main components of hair production. Modern people often eat out, are picky eaters, and many people even go on a diet to lose weight. These can easily lead to nutritional imbalance, causing hair to become dry, dull, and prone to breakage and hair loss. In addition, when the body lacks vitamin B12, copper, zinc, and iron, gray hair is likely to appear early.

2. Hair tied too tightly

If you pull too hard when tying your hair, or tie it too tightly, it will cause your hair to fall out slowly over time and increase the risk of hair loss.

3. Drug effects

Long-term use of medications may cause body dysfunction and lead to hair loss and graying.

4. Family inheritance

Most men are affected by family hair loss genes, which leads to hair loss. Everyone's hair loss situation and time point are different. In severe cases, there will be widespread baldness problems.

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How to improve hair loss

1. Proper hair care

In addition to choosing a suitable shampoo according to your scalp type, using water of moderate temperature to clean your scalp with your fingertips when shampooing, and keeping a hair dryer about 15 cm away from your hair, you should try to avoid excessive perming and dyeing of your hair, as the large amount of chemicals used in perming and dyeing of hair can hinder the growth of hair follicles, cause scalp inflammation, and damage the hair structure.

2. Massage acupoints

Pressing the "Shenting Point" located in the center of the hairline, the "Baihui Point" on the midline of the top of the head, the "Fengchi Point" on the back of the neck, the "Jiaosun Point" above the tip of the ear, the "Tianzhu Point" 2 cm above the back hairline and the temples can all help promote scalp health and improve hair loss and gray hair problems.

3. Get enough sleep

Getting enough rest not only allows the body to produce hormones that are important for hair growth, but also allows the scalp to eliminate unnecessary waste during this time, increasing hair health.