Head Strong

Modern living can certainly take a toll on the body, even the hair.
Stress, diet, even pollution can leave hair looking limp and dull.
In order to help customers maintain their appearance, Certified Natural Laboratories is proud to offer Head Strong, a multivitamin and mineral formula designed to keep hair strong, healthy and shiny.

Head Strong’s List of Ingredients includes:
Vitamin C
Essential for over 300 metabolic reactions in the body, Vitamin C is one of the most common supplements in the world–and for good reason.
Easily lost from the body through micturition, other factors that can lead to Vitamin C deficiency include poor diet and smoking.
Vitamin C deficiency manifests itself in many ways, but one of the most common ways is dry and brittle hair and skin.1 An important antioxidant, Vitamin C helps maintain good circulation, flushes toxins from the body and improves the immune system; all of which helps with strong, healthy hair.

Calcium
According to the ancient practice of Ayurvedic medicine, hair and nails are byproducts of healthy calcium absorption.2 Proper absorption of calcium leads to improved blood circulation by helping to prevent hemorrhaging.
Calcium also promotes efficient heart functioning and improved performance, and it increases scalp circulation, allowing for adequate blood flow to the hair follicles.

Zinc
Many people with poor diet, or those on a crash diet experience hair loss.
One of the reasons for this is zinc deficiency in the body.
Zinc is an essential mineral, vital for growth and development of all the body’s systems.
It is a major part of the synthesis of DNA and RNA and aids in the production and processing of at least 42 vital enzymes in the body.

B-complex Vitamins
The B-Complex vitamins are used to create healthy cells in every part of the human body–especially those involved in metabolic reactions, skin and circulation.
In this formula, we included Vitamins B1 (Thiamin), B2 (Riboflavin), B6 (Pyridoxine), and Folic Acid for the purpose of sustaining hair health.
B vitamin deficiencies manifest physically as dry, brittle hair and bad skin.
Supplementation of the B vitamins promotes cell growth and maintenance, stronger hair and nails, and healthier-looking skin.

Kelp (Ascophylum nodosum)
Kelp contains iodine, which helps maintain proper thyroid function.
Kelp is also rich in proteins and essential fatty acids, both excellent for metabolic maintenance with the beneficial side effect of healthier-looking hair.3

Selenium
Selenium, a necessary trace element, is involved in the regulation of the thyroid, the gland that secretes hundreds of hormones into the system, maintaining, among other many other things, good scalp circulation.

Vitamin D-3 (cholecalciferol)
A recent study showed that Vitamin D-3 supplementation stimulated hair growth in nude mice.
By stimulating the keratinocytes, cells that secrete keratin, the primary constituent of hair, skin and nails, Vitamin D-3 encourages increased hair growth.4

Lecithin
Derived from soy, lecithin is a phospholipid that is one of the main constituents of the structural components of cells.
A good source of essential fatty acids, lecithin helps the body maintain healthy formation of keratin.5

Licorice Root (Glycyrrhiza glabra)
Licorice contains a compound that helps prevent the conversion of testosterone (which both men and women produce in their bodies) to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), one of the causes of alopecia, or pattern baldness.6

Silica (Silicon Dioxide)
Studies in the former Soviet Union have shown that silica therapy slowed hair loss.7 Silicon deficiency has been shown to reduce maintenance of hair, skin and nail cells.8

Turmeric(Curcuma longa)
Turmeric has been used in the Ayurvedic tradition of medicine for several ailments, including hair loss.
It is used to treat skin infections and liver ailments, which is believed to impact the health of hair follicles.9

Soy Isoflavones
One of the more chemically unique isoflavones in soy is Equol, a nonsteroidal estrogen, that acts as an antiandrogen by blocking the hormone dihydrotestosterone, helping to prevent hair loss.10

 1 “Vitamin C” Renders, Eileen.
Food Additives, Nutrients and Supplements A-to Z: A Shopper’s Guide.
Clear Light Publishers.
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1999.

2 Williamson, Elizabeth M.
ed., Major Herbs of Ayurveda.
Churchill Livingstone Publishing.
China.
2002.

3 “Kelp” Renders, Eileen, ibid.

4 Vegesma, Vijaya, O’Kelly, James, Uskano, Milan, et.al, “Vitamin D3 Analogs Stimulate Hair Growth in Nude Mice”.
Endocrinology 43(11): 4389-4396.
2002.

5 “Lecitin” Renders, Eileen, ibid.

6 Duke, James A.
The Green Pharmacy.
St.
Martin’s Paperbacks.
New York, NY.
1997.

7 Holistic Online found at www.holistic-online.com/Remedies/Hair/hair_loss-diet.htm.

8 Carlisle, E.M.
“Silicon as a trace Nutrient”.
Science for the Total Environment 73: 95-106.
1996.

9 Williamson, Elizabeth M., ed., ibid.

10 “Equol” MedicineNet Medical dictionary A to Z found online at http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=32272.