There are Healthy Hair Diets, Healthy Hair Super-Foods, Healthy Hair Vitamin Pills, and Healthy Hair Recipes. There is an entire school of thought founded on the belief that your hair is only as good as the nutrients with which it is fed. Protein, zinc, and Vitamins B and C are all promoted as essential for a strong, shiny, bouncy, thick, and whatever-other-adjective-you'd-like-your-hair-to-be topknot.

But all those nutrients are promoted to maintain hair that is still growing. Is there a nutritional plan which will function as natural hair loss treatment as well? The fifties-and-over Baby Boomers males would really like to know about it if there is. Their choices for reversing male pattern hair loss are quite restricted at present, with the two most common being monoxidil and finasteride, two prescription items. They are available as Rogaine ointment, and Propecia pills respectively.

But Rogaine and Propecia are expensive, and cause side effects, some of which can be severs. Propecia, in fact, is not prescribed to women, who can also suffer from male pattern hair loss, because it causes birth defects. Effective natural hair loss treatments would certainly have their place on the pharmacy and health food store shelves.

Because male pattern hair loss has been convincingly connected to the overproduction of the hormone dihydroxytestosterone, foods and nutritional supplements which inhibit its production are at the top of the list for natural hair loss treatments. Some kinds of omega fatty acids are known DHT inhibitors, and they can be founding walnuts, spinach, and tuna.

Other natural hair loss treatments include saw palmetto, which is already a very popular supplement for maintaining prostate health. It also contains DHT inhibitors, as do evergreen tree bark extract, or pygeum, and stinging nettle. Many well-regarded natural hair loss treatments contain a combination of all three.

The herb Gotu Kola has been used by Chinese herbalists for centuries s one of the most effective natural hair loss treatments; it has been researched and found to restore the hair and thicken the skin of rats suffering from alopecia. Gotu Kola may have the added benefit of thickening skin in humans as well as restoring hair loss, as thinning of the skin is another common sign of aging.

Another one of the natural hair loss treatments which is claimed to thicken the skin, and relieve some of the pressure on the very tiny blood vessels which transport nutrients to the hair follicles is emu oil. Emu oil is also very high in the same fatty acids which make spinach, walnuts, and tuna such great DHT inhibitors

No extensive research ahs been done to establish the efficacy of any natural hair loss treatments, but because most of them have additional health benefits, are without side effects when taken in the recommended dosages, and cost much less than the available prescription hair loss remedies, there see to be several reasons why they should be given a chance, and no reasons at all why they should be ignored.