Comments on: Vegan with a hairloss problem? http://yes2vitamins.com/Blog/vegan-with-a-hairloss-problem Maintaining Health with Vitamins Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:14:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: kurvantidevidasi http://yes2vitamins.com/Blog/vegan-with-a-hairloss-problem#comment-1681 kurvantidevidasi Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:46:21 +0000 http://yes2vitamins.com/Blog/?p=2034#comment-1681 been a veggie/vegan for more than 25yrs. was personally born with VERY thin hair, started the veggie thing at about 17yrs old. one of the 1st things i did was to research how to make my hair thicker & more healthy as i was on swim team & surfed every day. and the ocean washed up the best thing for hair....... Seaweeds!!! i am not so sure why but the more i ate the less my hair required trimming due to split ends & my hair did get noticeably a bit thicker, could never get it to grow past my shoulders, now many yrs down the line , my hair is just above my behind & my heart meds make my hair fall out, AAAARGH! back to basics, MORE seaweed! and again it has really helped. oh & i never took birth control, too many animals suffered through testing. used Self-Control. maybe the combo of diet change & birth control has contributed to your current hair loss. well hope this helps. =>:) been a veggie/vegan for more than 25yrs. was personally born with VERY thin hair, started the veggie thing at about 17yrs old. one of the 1st things i did was to research how to make my hair thicker & more healthy as i was on swim team & surfed every day. and the ocean washed up the best thing for hair…….
Seaweeds!!! i am not so sure why but the more i ate the less my hair required trimming due to split ends & my hair did get noticeably a bit thicker, could never get it to grow past my shoulders, now many yrs down the line , my hair is just above my behind & my heart meds make my hair fall out, AAAARGH! back to basics, MORE seaweed! and again it has really helped. oh & i never took birth control, too many animals suffered through testing. used Self-Control. maybe the combo of diet change & birth control has contributed to your current hair loss. well hope this helps. =>:)

]]> By: Melissa Swan http://yes2vitamins.com/Blog/vegan-with-a-hairloss-problem#comment-1680 Melissa Swan Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:00:56 +0000 http://yes2vitamins.com/Blog/?p=2034#comment-1680 You can easily get enough protein from a vegan diet, but if you're losing hair, it sounds like you're not getting enough. Vegetables aren't a good source of protein except dark leafy greens. These contain complete protein equal to meat, they are the staple food of nature's vegetarians - gorrilas eat leaves and have huge muscles, cows eat grass and grow huge bodies. However it is difficult for human vegans to eat enough greens for their protein needs because greens are a) expensive and b) a lot of people don't like them. Wild greens - weeds - are free, and you can add some like chickweed to salads. Most are very tough, impossible to chew raw, and taste very bitter, but if you cook them they become soft and pleasant-tasting and you can use them like spinach. Find a book on wild foods so you know what to pick (some weeds are poisonous). Most people can recognise nettles and dandelion and dock leaves and they're extremely good for you. Nettle is known from improving hair health and dandelion is a brilliant liver booster, both are also full of iron. Seaweed is nutritionally very similar to greens, so also an excellent free protein source. For cheap foods you can buy - you need to combine legumes (lentils/beans/chickpeas/peanuts) with wholegrains to make a complete protein. Or soya or quinoa are complete all by themselves. Hence most vegan processed foods are made from soya. Buy soya meat, or have meals containing both legumes and grains. For example: Beans on toast Hoummus (chickpeas and sesame) on Pitta Bread Lentil Dhal with Rice Lentil Bolognaise with Pasta Peanut butter on Rice Cakes Bean Chillie and Rice Bean Hotpot with Bread Bean Stew with Dumplings Chickpea pie with wholewheat pastry. It's a myth that vegans replace meat with vegetables. They replace it with legumes+grains, and also nuts and seeds. Raw vegans replace it with greens, but that is really expensive. You can easily get enough protein from a vegan diet, but if you’re losing hair, it sounds like you’re not getting enough.
Vegetables aren’t a good source of protein except dark leafy greens. These contain complete protein equal to meat, they are the staple food of nature’s vegetarians – gorrilas eat leaves and have huge muscles, cows eat grass and grow huge bodies. However it is difficult for human vegans to eat enough greens for their protein needs because greens are a) expensive and b) a lot of people don’t like them. Wild greens – weeds – are free, and you can add some like chickweed to salads. Most are very tough, impossible to chew raw, and taste very bitter, but if you cook them they become soft and pleasant-tasting and you can use them like spinach. Find a book on wild foods so you know what to pick (some weeds are poisonous). Most people can recognise nettles and dandelion and dock leaves and they’re extremely good for you. Nettle is known from improving hair health and dandelion is a brilliant liver booster, both are also full of iron.
Seaweed is nutritionally very similar to greens, so also an excellent free protein source.

For cheap foods you can buy – you need to combine legumes (lentils/beans/chickpeas/peanuts) with wholegrains to make a complete protein. Or soya or quinoa are complete all by themselves. Hence most vegan processed foods are made from soya. Buy soya meat, or have meals containing both legumes and grains. For example:

Beans on toast
Hoummus (chickpeas and sesame) on Pitta Bread
Lentil Dhal with Rice
Lentil Bolognaise with Pasta
Peanut butter on Rice Cakes
Bean Chillie and Rice
Bean Hotpot with Bread
Bean Stew with Dumplings
Chickpea pie with wholewheat pastry.

It’s a myth that vegans replace meat with vegetables. They replace it with legumes+grains, and also nuts and seeds. Raw vegans replace it with greens, but that is really expensive.

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