What You Should Eat for Great, Strong and Healthy Hair
Rib eye steak. Preparation? Medium rare. T-bone steak, or our most popular sirloin steak. That it sounds like a perfect dinner and not a recipe for better and better quality hair? We claim that it can be both!
The proteins in the steak, along with some other key nutrients it contains, can significantly improve the quality of your hair.
But what do we mean by the word “better”? We mean the kind of hair that naturally shines while you step out of your fancy car in front of an expensive restaurant and casually toss your keys to the valet at the door to park it for you
Steak, of course, is not the only answer to achieving better hair. However, it can be one of the steps to improve the quality of your hair from the inside, instead of constantly looking for new beauty and styling products (not that there is anything wrong with that), and trying to improve the appearance of your hair exclusively in front of the mirror.
If you read our article about foods that help prevent hair loss, you already know that what we eat has a significant impact on the quality and health of our hair. It is not for nothing that they say that in a healthy body there is also a healthy mind, and we at BEGENTLEMAN unequivocally say that so is healthy hair!
For stronger hair: protein is essential
Thick hair is great hair, primarily because thick hair grows longer, looks thicker, and doesn’t break.
A balanced diet with a sufficient amount of protein strengthens not only your muscles, but also your hair. Fortunately, men today are mostly aware of the necessity of protein intake in the diet, especially when they lead an active lifestyle and regularly play sports or exercise.
However, it also applies to women, who, especially in Slovakia, still often think that a higher protein intake will miraculously make them grow muscles and thereby lose their femininity.
This is not true, and it is also true for women that they should take some protein with every meal during the day—if for no other reason, then at least because protein keeps the hair follicles strong and strong.
Recommended sources of high-quality protein are poultry, fish, legumes, nuts and grass-fed beef.
For healthy hair: don’t underestimate the B vitamin
You must have already heard somewhere that it is recommended to take biotin — known as vitamin B7, or sometimes confusingly as vitamin H (from the English word “hair”, i.e. hair) — for hair loss and the promotion of new growth.
Biotin is also often recommended as a key vitamin to support beard growth, although its effects alone are not very convincing, at least from a scientific point of view.
To this day, even many experts and scientists who have been researching this issue for a long time cannot agree on whether biotin alone can help the quality of hair and, in men, beards, or their growth itself.
However, the group of B vitamins, known as B-complex, is extremely important for the healthy appearance of not only hair but also skin. The problem is that the older we are, the fewer B vitamins our body can create on its own, and thus the need for their supplementation arises.
B vitamins are essential because they form the basis of our hair cells. Great sources of B vitamins include oats, eggs, oatmeal or sweet potatoes.
For full and naturally shiny hair: cells are the basis
The trace mineral silicon has been positively linked to healthy hair growth several times (and also speeds up the healing of broken bones). Silicon strengthens the connective tissue in our body, including hair.
Cucumbers, green beans, chickpeas, strawberries, mangoes, celery and leeks are great sources of silicon.
And while we’re on the topic of vegetables, whenever we’re talking about healthy and strong hair, nails, or beautiful skin, the importance of getting enough antioxidants cannot be ignored.
We need to take in a sufficient amount of nutrients that help us defend ourselves against free radicals from the sun and air pollution, which subsequently weaken our cell membranes.
In addition to antioxidants, they also include omega-3 fatty acids, and the best sources are seafood, cold-pressed natural oils and green leafy vegetables.
For dinner, add a handful of fresh spinach drizzled with a spoonful of linseed oil to the steak.
Not only your hair will thank you.
In a healthy body — healthy hair
Last but not least, there are steps you should take to better absorb all these good foods you consume for lighter hair. Our digestive system contains both good and bad bacteria, and our goal is, of course, to increase the good bacteria that will help us digest all the nutrients as best and as efficiently as possible.
The best sources are probiotics and fermented foods such as miso, kimchi, kefir or acidophilic milk. The great news at the end is that real Slovak unpasteurized bryndza or zinčica also belongs to the probiotic bomb.
If you are wondering if we also mean beer under fermented foods, then unfiltered, unpasteurized and without added ingredients, yes!
Today, we in the BEGENTLEMAN team choose a juicy medium-rare steak with a spinach salad and an honest craft beer for dinner. Who will join us?
