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The foods you eat and their nutritional value play a critical role in the health of your scalp and the growth of your hair. There are approximately 120,000 hairs growing on the scalp at any one time, all needing nutritional support, but it’s a fact that hair is not a vital organ or tissue, meaning your body will never prioritise its nutritional needs. Therefore a nutritional imbalance will often show up first as a scalp issue and/or in the form of excessive hair fall or hair loss.

Hair shedding sometimes referred to as hair fall is normal and everyone loses between 50 and 100 hairs a day. When the scalp sheds significantly more hairs every day, a person is deemed to have excessive hair shedding and the medical term for this condition is telogen effluvium.Hair loss differs from hair shedding. Hair loss occurs when something stops the hair from growing. The medical term for this condition is anagen effluvium.

If you have an oily scalp, you know how frustrating it can be to have hair that feels clean one minute and dirty the next.  The simple reason is because sebaceous glands in your scalp produce excess sebum, which travels down the hair shaft.If you want to stay in control before you get to any serious condition here are some simple solutions to help you combat an oily scalp and dry hair.

We all love to spend time in the great outdoors, embracing nature and participating in our favourite activities. Regardless of where we might be, or what we are doing, it's important to think about how we should protect ourselves from the elements and what we can do to maintain that beautiful head of hair.