What supplements can help women with thinning hair?

Supplements that can help women with thinning hair are a daily multivitamin/mineral, as well as a good hair/skin/nail mineral product (biotin). Trichologist Candy Lewis, ND, discusses the supplements that can help women with thinning hair.

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A lot of people always realize that they talk about vitamin C as a great antioxidant. It also helps build collagen and collagen in the hair,

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not just in the skin. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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The supplements I always recommend are a good multivitamin mineral, omega 3, 6, and 9,

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and a good hair, skin, and nail. And usually, your hair, skin, and nail vitamins are typically something that actually will help support your bone and cartilage because that's

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part of the hair production. You hear out there biotin, for instance, and people will run and just get biotin and start taking it.

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And I often hear, oh, it's just not helping. Well, that's because you need other vitamins and minerals

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and coenzymes to help that biotin actually-- it has to stimulate and absorb better.

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Some of those would be iron and zinc would be the main two that help biotin. Now, another thing a lot of people always realize that they talk about vitamin

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C as a great antioxidant-- it also helps build collagen and collagen in the hair, not just in the skin.

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So those are really great things to remember-- is to always, again, do a foundational, which

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would be your vitamin mineral, your antioxidants, and your omega 3, 6, and 9, and a good hair, skin,