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Sweetcandicurlz View Drop Down
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Joined: Apr 20, 2005
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Posted: Apr 21, 2005 at 4:59pm
Hey everybody,

I have a question. I want my hair to grow longer but it grows so slow and I was thinking about using some hair vitamin pills. The one I was looking at is called "Fast Grow" and I wanted to know if that kind of stuff works but I'm kinda' chicken to try it. I don't want it to have any side affects or anything, and well I really need some help!!!!!!! I have tried probably everything to help my hair grow and I don't know what else to do. Thank you so very much!!!!!Sweetcandicurlz38463.589837963

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eKatherine View Drop Down
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Posted: Apr 21, 2005 at 4:59pm
Save your money. Unless you have a deficiency caused by malnutrition or a serious health problem, taking vitamins is not going to speed up your hair growth.

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Posted: May 13, 2005 at 4:59pm
Taking vitamins, can speed up your hair growth, but not in everyone. I am not "malnourished", nor do I have a vitamin deficiency, but I do take hair vitamins and note increased growth. when I take the vits, I get .5 to 1 inch a month, compared to .25 when I dont take them. Try biotin, I take 5mg a day, which you can get from puritans pride. I always take a multi, flaxseed oil, mega B, mega c, silica. and a couple of others. They dont make me "feel" different, because as I have said, I am not malnourished, but hey, my hair is growin.

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Posted: May 21, 2005 at 4:59pm

hair naturally grows at a rate of .5 inch per month so the fact that your's increased to that after taking vitamins suggests that you may have had a low level of biotin in your body.  I am not saying that vitamins can't help your hair get longer faster, it's just not in the way you are thinking.  taking vitamin e helps develope healthy hair growth.  The best way to make your hair get longer faster is to not get it cut as frequently (no duh? right?) but one is supposed to get their har cut every 3 months so that it cuts away the damage and you avoid split ends (which aren't bad in the short term but if aren't trimmed away can cause the entire hair shaft to split.  So basically make sure you keep your hair as healthy as possible by using moisturising shampoos and conditioners ( i personally like joico silk, i haven't had a hair cut in 7 months and you can't even tell) and use a deep conditioner once a week.  also try to wash your hair every couple of days and that goes for using appliances too (ie blow dryers, straightners, etc.) And if you want vitamin help take e because it not only helps hair but also skin.


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Posted: Jun 03, 2005 at 4:59pm

Cysteine also helps. It is an amino acid that is not in silk. So if you find a conditioner or leave-in product that contains cysteine and not only silk proteins then you'll see a difference. The cells which generate the hair thrive on cysteine and lecithin. You can also take cysteine pills.

Stacey


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eKatherine View Drop Down
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Posted: Jun 03, 2005 at 4:59pm
If cysteine were to have any effect on the growth rate, it would need to be consumed, not applied topically in conditioners and other products. Hair growth is from within.

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Posted: Jun 04, 2005 at 4:59pm
Well it is in many hair products. It's not difficult for small particles to make it down into the folicle. They are not deep. And that is where it is needed. It works.

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eKatherine View Drop Down
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Posted: Jun 04, 2005 at 4:59pm
There are many things that are contained in hair and skin care products for the sole purpose of impressing the consumer, but which actually have no demonstrable effect. None of these products are tested and proven effective in producing the results claimed on the labels. Hair growth occurs when your body takes protein from the diet and processes it internally to cause your hair to grow from the follicles. Marketing geniuses would have you believe that you should apply amino acids, vitamins and minerals to your hair in order to change the growth rate. This is good for their bank account, but not good either for your bank account, nor for the effect you are hoping for.

The growth rate of your hair is controlled by genetics, hormones (which are affected by seasons), and by diet to a lesser extent, only so long as it is not inadequate.

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Blended Beauty View Drop Down
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Posted: Jun 04, 2005 at 4:59pm
They are not all just for marketing. A lot of them increase combability for less breakage, such as the silks on the entire shaft. Nutrients, or amino acids, go into the cells through the cell membrane whether it's on the side of the capillaries or the side of the skin. Hair follicles thrive on cystein and lecithin. If they are left on the scalp, in say a leave-in, just as the skin can absorb essential oils and they can find their way into the blood stream, hair follicles can absorb these nutrients. Nutrients for skin can be taken in both internally and externally. Just as the skin can take in toxins.  The absorbtion process is not about the genes. The genes determine which proteins the cell makes. If the building blocks are not there then these genes can not direct the making of anything.

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The quantities of nutrients found in personal care products are insignificant compared with what you can and do get from your diet. None of these products has been tested and shown to increase hair growth.

Some nutrients may be absorbed into the skin, but from there they will enter the bloodstream, not target the follicles to increase hair growth. And once in your bloodstream, they will disperse throughout the body.

Just because it's possible to imagine something occurring (particles of nutrients entering the top of the follicle, working their way down to the base and below, being digested and converted into their raw materials there, then reprocessed by the mitochondria of those exact cells and only these cells to increase growth rate) does not mean this can or will happen. If it was provable, they would prove it. And then they'd have printed the research paper for us all to read and used it as a selling point.

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Posted: Jun 04, 2005 at 4:59pm
These particles don't have to be digested. The amino acids are ready for use. The mitochondria is not involved in the process.  The mitochondria is the power house of the cell and we are talking about bulding protiens with amino acids directed by the DNA from the nucleus. But really there is no point to this. I'm sure that no one is interested in this conversation at all.

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Posted: Jun 06, 2005 at 4:59pm

Actually, I've thoroughly enjoyed this conversation/debate.  Hair is dead, like fingernails.  Growth depends on genetics and a healthy diet.  Marketing and advertisements would like you to believe that their products will make your hair grow. 

For example, girls with anorexia are severely malnourished.  They have horrible hair.  It's damaged as soon as it grows from the root.  There is no miracle product that will help them repair their hair, except for eating better. 

Silicone products are the hero of the hair product industry.  They can make your hair appear healthier and softer.  But, they will do nothing to promote healthy hair growth.


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Sweetcandicurlz View Drop Down
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Posted: Jun 13, 2005 at 4:59pm
For one thing I know that I am certainly not anorexic. I am a teenager and eat what regular teens eat, I guess. But maybe it is from my genetics. Who knows. I just want to do something to help my hair grow. And since I am mixed it's kind of hard to decide what kind of products to use, and by that I mean just like regular american/white products or black products. I mainly use black hair products since my hair is curly and needs lots of moisturizing, but sometimes I do use other ones. Anyways to rap it up I just want my hair to grow. Right now it's about shoulder length, it's not to short, but i want it longer. But maybe I am lacking some kind of nutrients Well thank you all for your advice and keep'em coming!!!

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Blended Beauty View Drop Down
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Posted: Jun 14, 2005 at 4:59pm
It may also be breaking more than you know. Maybe you should try twisting it at night or covering it so It doesn't get as knotty. If it's like mine you shouldn't comb it when it is dry, only when you have conditioner in it. Only mixed people understand mixed hair. Don't always go by what anyone else says.

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Sweetcandicurlz View Drop Down
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Posted: Jun 14, 2005 at 4:59pm
Yeah, I do know to never, ever brush it when it's dry and I only brush it when it wet and conditioned. And I know what you mean about not listening to what anyone else says because sometimes others that don't have hair like this, as much as they try, they don't completely understand what it's like and how it needs to be managed.

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Joined: Feb 16, 2005
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Posted: Jun 15, 2005 at 4:59pm

hey sweetcandi, 

I didn't mean to imply that you were anorexic, I was just using an anorexic person as an example.   

When I used to grow my hair out, the best thing that helped me was to NOT think about it.  Then all the sudden, it would seem to grow.

Goodluck!


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Sweetcandicurlz View Drop Down
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Posted: Jun 16, 2005 at 4:59pm
Oh, ok Eatgreenjello. You know someone else once told me not to think about it, but I guess I've never tried it before. Thank you very much for your advice. I think I might just try that. Thanks again, to every one
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