Hair Vitamins

Do They Really Work?

So everywhere your turn some company has made a vitamin for something. Weight loss, arthritis, calorie burning and hair growth just to name a few, I don't know about you but I have to see it to believe it and the only way to do that is by using science to prove that it works. This is where most of the vitamins fall short they talk the talk but they can't walk the walk. So my objective is to choose one type of vitamin and see if it really works by using scientific reasoning and the power of deduction, I know sounds fun right.

Lets take a look at hair nutrition vitamins they claim to help your hair grow faster stronger and become more healthy so I am going to test their claims by breaking down the ingredients and tell you exactly what each one does and if it will help you.

Here are the ingredients taken directly off the bottle, after tons of research here is what I found about each one.

* Niacin - Naturally decreases the amount of sebum which can clog pores and slow or stop the growth of hair.
* Vitamin B-12 - Speeds up the production of healthy fats and energy, while supplying nutrients to the body.
* Panthonenic Acid - Is an essential fatty acid that helps metabolize proteins.
* Iodine - Gets absorbed into the blood and converted into a hormone.
* Maganese Gluconate - Acts as a carrier for the other ingredients.
* Folic Acid - Helps stimulate rapid cell division to help hair cells replicate faster.
* Biotin - Helps the body convert fatty acids into nutrients.
* Chlorophyll - Helps the body absorb nutrients.
* Zinc Oxide - An essential nutrient for the body.
* PABA - Helps balance out any disorders in the scalp.

Those were the main active ingredients overall they tested really well and there were no signs of any fillers or unnecessary ingredients. Next is a list of the secondary essential amino acid ingredients.

* L - Isoleucine - Gets converted into a fatty acid.
* L - Arginine - Helps with the division of cells.
* L - Leucine - Increases protein production.
* L - Lysine - Is converted into a protein to help the body grow and mend itself.
* L - Methionine - Is a carrier for certain hormones.
* L - Phenylalanine - Helps stimulate the circulatory system, which can increase blood flow.
* L - Threonine - Helps convert enzymes.
* L - Valine - Helps form proteins that the human body cannot create on its own.
* L - Cystine - Helps form the base structure of most proteins.
* L - Aspartic Acid - Regulates biosynthisis.
* L - Serine - A main component of silk protein.
* L - Glutamin Acid - Stimulates the nervous system.
* L - Proline - Is the main component in cellular metabolism.
* L - Glycine - Is a precursor to the development of proteins.
* L - Alanine - Regulates the function between your liver and other tissue.
* L - Tyrosine - Reduces stress hormones.
* L - Histidine - Helps increase zinc production which helps your body absorb more nutrients.

Overall after looking through the ingredients everything seemed to add up. All of the ingredients are there to make a good vitamin that will help your hair grow faster. So I did what any questioning person would do... I tested it. From April 09 - July 09 (3 months) my hair grew 2.78 inches on average with no supplements. So I started taking the hair nutrition vitamins on August 1st 09 and by October 1st my hair had already grown 2.59 inches (with the vitamins), so in just 2 months my hair grew almost what it had been in the previous three months. So in my findings it really worked well. It made my hair grow 2/3's faster than it would normally grow, if you ask me that is pretty impressive.

By Tim Faber