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Rosemary Oil Facts

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Rosemary Oil and Hair

Research shows that rosemary oil may benefit well-being by relieving pain, relieving stress, improving your mood, fighting baldness, and acting as an anti-inflammatory. Studies have proven that rosemary oil can do much to boost free-radical- scavenging activities, as well as reducing the levels of cortisol, all of which can protect the human body against severe diseases caused by oxidative stress. The oils extracted from rosemary helps to boost antioxidant activities that show up as strong tools to combat diseases and infections.
Rosemary oil helps promote hair growth and hair thickness because it feeds the follicles. Combine several drops of rosemary oil, one tablespoon of castor oil, and two tablespoons of coconut oil. Rosemary essential oil does more than help boost hair growth, it can be used to treat Alopecia Areata and Androgenetic Alopecia (hair loss associated with female-pattern or male-pattern baldness). Diluted and used topically, rosemary essential oil is known for stimulating hair growth, relieving pain, soothing inflammation, eliminating headaches, strengthening the immune system, and conditioning your hair so that it looks and feels healthier.
Used in aromatherapy, Rosemary oil helps to lower stress levels and nervous tension, enhance mental activity, promote clarity and intuition, alleviate fatigue, and support respiratory function. Often used to alleviate mental fatigue and stress in folk medicine, diffusing Rosemary Essential Oil may help to boost your mood. Aromatherapy with rosemary may help decrease muscle strain, ease mental fatigue and stomach tension, and improve memory and energy levels.
One study suggests that rosemary, combined with other pleasant-smelling oils, can reduce cortisol levels and help lower anxiety. One study found that sniffing rosemary oil prior to tests helped lower stress levels during testing as well as the general levels of anxiety among nursing students (22). Another study found that using lavender and rosemary essential oils in pillowcases reduced stress during test-taking among graduate nursing students.
One study showed that a group of people who smoked rosemary essential oil (Rosmarinus officinalis) for several weeks noticed improved cognitive function and significantly increased mental alertness. The results showed that the inhalation of Rosemary essential oil reduced stress levels through decreased serum corticosterone levels and increased in-vivo dopamine levels in the brain. Scientific studies have demonstrated rosemary oils abilities to aid many common and chronic health problems,
including hair loss, liver function, high corticosterone levels, stress, cognition, and memory problems such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
While its essential oils are not used in skin care as much as they are used for hair care, rosemary oil has powerful
antimicrobial and antiseptic qualities that may help you manage eczema, dermatitis, oily skin, and acne. When used in a form of massage oil, rosemary oil helps to alleviate cramps, pain, cramps, rheumatism, arthritis, and strained necks.

Rosemary is a rich source of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds thought to help strengthen the immune system and enhance blood circulation.

Hypnosis and Hair Loss

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Therapeutic Hypnosis And Hair loss

Hypnotherapy has absolutely no side effects, as well as decreases overall stress and anxiety levels in clients. In this case, not only is hypnotherapy effective at promoting significant hair growth, it is a non-side-effects method to decrease stress and other symptoms of alopecia areata.

We can use Hypnosis to bring about both psychological and physiological changes, so, naturally, we can use it to promote hair growth. As you may remember, the power of hypnosis for hair growth can be in part due to the effect that it has on your stress levels. According to researchers, the hypnotically treated patient can experience a regular process in growing his or her hair.

Lists on Natural Hair Growth usually just mention that hypnotherapy may cause changes in hair, without explaining why. We have also briefly noted the potential for increased hair growth through increased blood flow to the hair follicles, but even more importantly, there is an effect hypnosis may have on the subjective experience you get from hair. Note that you may even want to combine hypnosis with other treatments for hair loss.

Stress-related hair loss is usually temporary, so it is possible to treat it through hypnosis. There are some people who find their hair does not regrow, regardless of the underlying cause, but it is always beneficial to use relaxation techniques to help you cope with your anxiety, in order to help lower the risk of experiencing further hair loss related to stress, as well as reduce anxiety you are experiencing due to hair loss. If stress and anxiety are a primary reason why you are losing your hair, then decreasing this stress or anxiety may help you get your hair back.

The relaxed state created during a hypnotherapy session allows the power of hypnotic suggestions to dispel any negative, limiting beliefs a person might have about their hair and hair loss. Further analysis has shown that while the patient is in a relaxed hypnotic state, his or her negative beliefs regarding his or her hair loss are replaced with positive beliefs. While in a hypnotic state, we can tell the subconscious mind to block out all fears of losing hair, feeling just calm, and peaceful, and knowing it is easier to encourage and maintain long, thick, strong, beautiful hair.

The thing to keep in mind though, about hypnosis, as well as any therapy, be it medical or holistic, is that it is more effective if used together with something else. While it is true that hypnotherapy can reverse hair loss, we still lack enough evidence to know for sure, or believe in with any degree of confidence. Another issue is that, for ethical reasons, most patients in this trial were already using conventional treatments for their hair loss.

Twelve participants showed a marked improvement following the hypnotherapy treatments, and four had completely lost their hair. After three to eight sessions, the patients with alopecia (baldness) showed a substantial increase in their hair growth (75%-100%), as well as decreased levels of overall anxiety and depression, which also might have caused hair loss. Alongside hypnosis treatment to restore hair, participants were given therapies that helped alleviate stress.

Dieting Can Cause loss of hair

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Going on a crash diet that consists solely of baby food, cabbage soup, elaborate juice concoctions or a meagre amount of calories a day might enable you to lose a few kilos quickly. But you may also find 2-6weeks later that you are also losing your hair.

 

Extreme diets that cut out essential food groups or unhealthily restrict your caloric intake are bad for your body -you are depriving yourself of essential vitamins, minerals, proteins and energy. And this is very bad news for your hair.  Your hair is the second fastest growing cell in your body and is extremely sensitive to change and imbalance. Any nutritional deficiencies in your diet will usually show up first in your hair. i.e. by causing your hair to fall out more than it should. Your hair is not a vital tissue, like bone marrow, nor is it a vital organ, like your heart, liver or kidneys. What little nutrition you are getting through a restrictive diet will go to those parts of you first. Even though your hair is very important to you psychologically, your body is much more concerned with keeping its internal organs healthy. If your body is feeling deprived and hungry on a crash diet or restrictive diet, you can only imagine how your hair follicles are feeling! This starvation of the follicles causes your hair go into the telogen (resting/falling) phase prematurely, and many hairs at the same time. You can experience mass hair loss depending on how bad your diet was and for how long the diet went on for. This is called telogen effluvium.

Your hair is made primarily of protein – keratin – and so sufficient protein is essential for strong, healthy hair and hair growth. Many fad diets, likes those consisting solely of fruit, vegetables and/or juice mixtures (and yes – even those that contain protein powder) do not provide the body with enough protein. You need a MINUMUM of 120g of protein (meat, fish, eggs, chicken or 180g low fat cottage cheese) at breakfast and a further 120g with lunch in order for your hair to grow at its optimum. Dinner is the least important meal of the day for your hair so you can indulge in whatever you like. However, this does not mean you can go on a diet consisting only of lean proteins. You also need vitamins and minerals from fruits and vegetables and energy provided by complex carbohyrdates.

Red meat at least once a week is also important, regardless of whether you are taking a supplement. It provides you with iron and also ferritin (stored iron), a mineral which is essential to hair growth and hair health. This is especially important if you are a menstruating woman. While supplements can be extremely helpful, especially if you have absorbtion problems, they need to be incorporated into a healthy diet. They are not a substitute for the foods actually containing them. A supplement such as the Philip Kingsley PK4HAIR, which is fortified with amino acids and enhances the production of keratin, is a perfect way to boost healthy hair growth and health in combination with a nutritious diet.

In short, if you want to have healthy and beautiful hair, or hair that is in its best condition possible, you need to stick to a healthy, nutritious, well-balanced eating plan!

Always discuss with your doctor before embarking on a change in diet.

Hair is protein

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Proteins are used to build tissue cells, including the cells of your hair, skin and nails. 80-85% of your hair is composed of a protein called keratin. Dietary proteins are your hairs’ building blocks – they make your hair strong and help keep it in its growing (anagen) phase. Continue reading →