Vitamins are essential for the body to produce beautiful healthy hair. The lack of particular vitamins will actually contribute to hair loss. Therefore, if you are concerned about hair loss, you should first examine your diet and make every effort to increase the vitamins that will help battle your problems with hair loss.

Vitamins and minerals work together to provide the body with the essential elements that make it strong and healthy. Although the focus of this article is to emphasize the vitamins connected to hair loss and natural hair reproduction, certain necessary minerals will also be discussed.

Below is a list of the four vitamins that are absolutely necessary for your battle against hair loss. These vitamins, combined with necessary minerals and included in your daily nutrition over time, will result in noticeable improvement in the quality and quantity of your hair.

Vitamin A: Sebum is secretion of the sebaceous glands. It is mostly fat and cellular material. Without sebum, your scalp with become thick and dry and your hair will become dry and brittle. If you have dandruff, chances are good that you are lacking sebum. Vitamin A plays a major role in producing sebum. You can find Vitamin A in yellow and orange foods such as squash, mango, sweet potatoes, oranges and carrots.

Vitamin C: Many beauty creams these days promote collagen to help reduce wrinkles. But did you know that collagen will also give you strong hair? Vitamin C helps your body produce collagen naturally. You can get vitamin C in all kinds of citrus fruits as well as in red peppers.

Vitamin E: vitamin E increases the absorption of oxygen in your body. Why this is good for your hair growth is that the absorption of oxygen provides good blood circulation to the scalp. This is not to be confused with the idea of simply massaging the head, although that will certainly feel good.

Vitamin B: Not only does your body need to absorb oxygen, it also needs to circulate oxygen. Healthy hair growth requires enough oxygen in the scalp to stimulate and maintain its growth. You can find vitamin B in foods that are also rich in protein, especially legumes, nuts and white meats.

Zinc is an important mineral that the body needs in order to promote tissue growth, in particular, the growth of hair tissue. Zinc also helps secrete oil onto the scalp. With a zinc deficiency, the scalp becomes thick and dry and hair becomes dry and brittle. Zinc works with vitamins A and E. It is the combination of zinc with vitamin A that produces the sebum lubricant for the follicles of hair at the root of growth. With vitamin B, zinc helps build protein in the hair.

Vitamins can help make healthy hair even more so. Vitamins bring about that beautiful shine we associate with healthy hair. Vitamins A, E, C, and B are especially important to hair growth and therefore, should be the first to increase in your diet if you are worried about hair loss.