Are Most Hair Growth Vitamins just Promoting the body to produce Estrogen?

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A lot of the natural herbs, extracts, and minerals either promote estrogen, are estrogen like, or they are natural estrogen.

Do you agree?

 

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Anyone??????

 

[faithVA]

I have no idea. You may want to ask in the Natural Living forum.

 

[Texasdymond]

A lot of the natural herbs, extracts, and minerals either promote estrogen, are estrogen like, or they are natural estrogen.

Do you agree?

Not really understanding what you are asking or trying to find out.....but there are a lot of plants and herbs that are estrogen like, I believe they are known as phytoestrogens. Yes phytoestrogens promote estrogen in the body, but they are not as potent as what our bodies naturally create. Extracts included too. But I don't know about minerals being included in this. I would have to look that up.

 

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I'm curious if hair growth vitamins do the same thing to your body that pregnancy does? Could this be the same reason why pregnant women get a hair growth spurt?

 

[MarieB]

Lots of pregnant women take prenatal vitamins (not specifically for hair), too. That might also stimulate hair growth.

 

[sparkle25]

If they do I would be really careful with that. Excessive estrogen can cause female reproductive disease, breast cancer, infertility etc.

 

[koolkittychick]

Not entirely. Most supplements marketed for hair growth are formulated to work one of three ways in this order:

1. Provide the extra building blocks your body needs to create hair from inside the hair follicles. Those usually contain Biotin, B complex vitamins and keratin, although keratin is less effective taken internally as the body is more inclined to make this. They tend to work mostly if you are already taking in enough of these ingredients for proper nutrition for the rest of your body. Otherwise they are utilized elsewhere. The body utilizes nutrients in the following hierarchy: feed the brain first, feed the heart next, feed your muscles next, then your extremities (like hair) last.
2. They increase circulation and blood flow throughout your body, like omega fatty acids, antioxidants, and even caffeine. Increased blood flow to the hair follicles results in increased hair growth during the hair's growth cycle, resulting in longer, more dense hair. These work best (actually, they all work best) with a proper diet and exercise regimen.
3. They act as phytoestrogens, which can simulate an increase in your natural estrogen levels, which can result in increased hair growth. One of the best ingredients for this is flaxseed, preferably ground from the whole seed. While they produce great results, as a previous poster mentioned one must be careful with how much one takes of this kind of supplement, as too much may exacerbate hormone-effected conditions such as PCOS, fibroids or endometriosis in some women.

 

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^^^^^ koolkitty.....I agree. However, when I look at the ingredients in vitamins targeted for hair growth, they use a LOT of herbs that promote estrogen in the body.

 

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Lots of pregnant women take prenatal vitamins (not specifically for hair), too. That might also stimulate hair growth.

I think the pregnancy hair growth spurt is prompted by the increase estrogen levels in the body. I believe a small part is coming from the dv of a,b and c in a prenatal vitamin.


If you look at all the hair growth vitamins mentioned on this board, do u see a lot of estrogen herbs?

 

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I have no idea. You may want to ask in the Natural Living forum.

faithVA

I wanted this posted in the hair forum so we could have conversations and share some science regarding hair growth vitamins.

 

[jessicarabbit]

Nonie might know lol