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Excessively Acid Diet : Beware for Your Hair! OVERVIEW. Today, our diet tends to favour acid substances, instead of basic ones (alkaline). Such an imbalance can have a negative impact on the hair's health, and can sometimes even contribute to causing hair loss. If your hair is becoming weaker, a diet based on the acid-base balance will contribute to boosting its vital functions. |
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What is the acid-base balance?
Is your diet balance?
Incidence on the scalp and the hair 
Diet advice for your hair
List of acid and alkaline nutrients
What is the acid-base balance?
In order to live and renew itself, your body, as a whole, needs a daily intake of proteins, lipids, vitamins, carbohydrates, minerals and trace elements. - the Acid family Both families need to neutralise each other, inside the body, if your diet and lifestyle are adequate. As a result, the pH is neither excessively acid nor excessively alkaline: that is what we call the acid-base diet. |
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Is your diet balanced ?
Your acid-base balance is determined by a system of exchanges between the energetic intake you bring to your system, the metabolism it goes through inside the body, and the rejection towards the outside of unneeded excess.
Intakes That is not all: our lifestyle, sedentary for most of us, therefore not very physically demanding, is not very favorable to the evacuation of excess acids, and contributes to upset our balance. And that is without mentioning stress, which only generates toxin acids...
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Rejections
They are primarily the waste of which the body gets rid of, after having filtered what enables it to maintain a neutral pH. The acids are evacuated by the kidneys and the lungs (for carbon acid) but also through the skin, via sweat and sebum.
In case of an overload, these three natural purifiers get tired and can no longer totally get rid of the excess of acid toxins. They then clog the conjunctive tissues, acidifying the area, making it more fragile, more inflammatory, and forcing it to use its alkaline reserves to restore, as much as it can, its acid-base balance. In the long term, according to an entire nutritionist school of thought, the system loses minerals, the general state is weakened, and the disease can settle (acidosis).
Incidence on the scalp and the hair
At the Centre Clauderer, we have found that the scalp's pH acidity triggers two types of reactions, which sometimes come together.
1- Dandruff and itchiness
On hair that is dry by nature, excess acids wound the skin and dry it out even more. They favour the irritating shedding and rashes. On greasy scalps, the sebum's corrosive nature, saturated by acid toxins, can trigger inflammatory states, even seborrheic dermatitis. In both cases, the hair becomes lifeless, flabby, without any elasticity.
2- Hair loss
Apart from in the case of proven acidose and demineralisation of the system, the pH's acidity is not a triggering factor of hair loss but is certainly an AGGRAVATING factor.
In the case of androgenetic alopecia, for instance, a diet too rich in acids and insufficiant in minerals can largely contribute to root atrophy and to progressive hair loss, especially if stress and lack of exercise add themselves to the diet's poor balance.
Those symptoms can easily be identified during an in-depth hair diagnosis. In parallel to the anti-loss treatment, the diet should also be intelligently reviewed. At Centre Clauderer, dietary information is part of the global treatment against hair loss.
Diet advice for your hair
If your diet is too acid, here are 7 tips from Hélène Clauderer to reestablish the balance. The results on the quality of your hair will soon be felt.
1 Try to moderate your intake of acid nutrients and broaden your intake of alkalising nutrients, by refering you to the table at the end of this section.
2 Beware: moderating does not mean suppressing! First, because it is not good for the system to be too alkaline. Then, because your hair needs, in order to renew itself properly, a daily intake of suflured amino acids and iron, which is especially found in meaty foods. RDI protein= 50 to 60g, RDI iron = 18mg for women, 10mg for men. See our section Your diet and hair loss.
3 To moderate your consumption of acids, you should give up sodas and fast food, cooked pork meats, wheat, hardended fat and sweets. Limit tea and coffee as much as you can.
4 Avoid animal protein and fat at dinner, and prefer green vegetables and steamed potatoes: they are strongly alkalising.
5For salads and raw vegetables, be careful with seasoning: with wine vinigar and cereal oil, you have it all wrong; with cider vinigar and olive oil, you have it all right.
6 Drink a lot of mineral water, no less than 1.5 liters per day. It is a good way of eliminating your toxins. Choose a water with a neutral pH (Evian, Contrexeville...) or with an alcalin pH.
7 Do physical exercise, preferably outside. That will favor the combustion of your excess acids:
- acceleration of the respiratory rythm, evacuation of carbon acid
- stimulation of diurese (elimination by urin)
- stimulation by sweat.
List of acid & alkaline nutrients
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Iron Deficiency and Hair Loss
Hair Loss, How to Identify Your Type of Loss ?
Thinner and Fewer Regrowing Hair (with sketches). What to Do
Dandruff and Itchiness
Greasy Hair
Dry Hair
Breaking Hair and Split Ends
Dull Hair
Lifestyle: Six Anti-Loss Tips for Your Hair
Hair Treatment FAQ
DAILY Hair Loss: What Is the Norm?
Centre Clauderer.com Most Visited Women Info Files
FOR TREATMENT
Clauderer Anti-hair Loss Treatments
Clauderer in-Depth Hair Diagnosis
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