Silent Secret Affecting Your Hair Growth & How To Prevent
In this guide, we are sharing the silent secret that could be affecting your hair growth. A lot of times we think it's the product or what we're doing or not doing that making us have slower hair growth or excessive shedding. But what if it's this one thing that is the culprit? So in this guide, we are sharing with that thing is how it actually affects our hair growth cycle and what are some solutions that you can implement today to start seeing some accelerated hair growth. So let's just jump straight into it!
Silent Secret
The silent secret is stress and stress has such an effect on our body, stress has the ability to shock our system and stress can be from a change in relationship, a change in your job, a death of a loved one and with the shock to the system, stress can also increase the stress hormone within our body also known as Cortisol. Cortisol has the ability to force the anagen phase to go directly into catagen slash halogen phase. The anagen phase is the active growth cycle, this in your hair is actually growing from the follicle whereas the catagen phase is the resting phase where the growth has stopped, halogen is when your hair is shedding. And typically in this type of environment, this is inducing telogen effluvium which is a condition where you have stress related hair loss. This is where 20 to 50% of your hair on your head is going through a shedding process. And this can last to around three months. What can we do if this happens to you or even how to prevent this from happening to you because you life happens, stress happens. Here are some solutions.
Solutions For Silent Secret Affecting Your Hair Growth
1. Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha is a plant, it is a very popular ayurvedic herb. Ashwagandha has been known to decrease the cortisol stress hormone which is great. So Ashwagandha can be used to help relieve stress, on top of that, Ashwagandha can be good for regulating the hair growth cycle. So even if you're not stressed out but your hair growth cycle is kind of out of whack ashwagandha would be great for helping to bring balance in regulating that cycle, so you can start seeing some consistent hair growth as well.
2. Lavender
Lavender is amazing, lavender tea, lavender oil, it's just great. So lavender is great for relieving stress, you can do like the aromatherapy, it's also great for promoting hair growth as well. So lavender would be the second pick.
3. Chamomile
It is also known for reducing stress and also known for stimulating hair growth and blood flow to the scalp to promote hair growth as well. If want to start incorporating this into your regimen, you can do some DIY, oils with Ashwagandha, infusing the herb into an oil or even adding a few lavender drops of chamomile essential oils to your carrier oil, put that on your scalp, use that multiple times throughout the week. Or you can look for products that have Ashwagandha, Chamomile, Lavender within them or even take some teas, drink teas, herbal teas with these ingredients, so you have a plethora of options to start seeing some hair growth, a reduction of shedding and hair loss in addition to relieving stress as well.