Top 3 Recommended Vitamins for Hair Growth – Men, Women and Prenatal

If you are one of millions of men and women who are devastated by thinning and hair loss, it can be frustrating to try to find real solutions to your problem.  Theories on balding abound: Some experts claim that hair loss is an evolutionary response to our climate-controlled lifestyles or the result of skull expansion.  Others insist that hair loss is a health condition that can be reversed with good nutrition and holistic treatments.  In any case, taking vitamins is a good, relatively inexpensive place to start in the treatment of your hair condition, because they will benefit your whole body, not just your hair.

If you have done any research at all on treatments for thinning hair, you have no doubt seen countless products and lofty claims.  There are many hair growth vitamins for black women.  These are rarely any different from other hair vitamins; they are just marketed to a specific group of consumers.  If you are Asian or Caucasian, you can use them just as well.  You may also read stories about the successful use of prenatal vitamins for hair growth.  There is no data to indicate that prenatal vitamins are more effective than any other type of vitamins at stimulating hair growth, but they are certainly safe to try.

Below, we review three of the best hair growth vitamins available and give you the information you need to make the right decision for you.

Nourish with GNC Ultra Nourishair

GNC, one of the largest vitamin retailers in the country, offers a popular product called Ultra Nourishair in stores on at their website.  Women’s Ultra Nourishair, GNC’s hair growth vitamins for women, consists of 23 ingredients, including biotin (a B vitamin), MSM (a naturally occurring sulfur compound), silica, and amino acids.  A regular-size bottle of 60 caplets lasts approximately a month (at a rate of 2 caplets daily) and costs $11.99, although GNC Gold Card members can get the product for significantly less.  The men’s formula is available in a bottle of 120 caplets for $17.99 and features added herbs to balance male hormones.  If you do not take vitamins regularly or want to start simply, this line of vitamins for hair growth is the best first choice and may correct deficiencies in many people, leading to healthier hair.

By going online, you get the added benefit of reading the user reviews.  At the time of this writing, these products both have a 4.5-star rating.  Keep in mind that any time you look at the overall rating of the product, you must skim through the individual comments to get a sense of how accurate the ratings are.  For example, with this product, a few people gave 3-star ratings after using the product for only a few days.  Of course nobody would see results within a time period this short, so in reality, the reported satisfaction rate with proper use would seem to be much higher.

A New Head of Hair with NuHair

NuHair offers 2 systems (for men and women) which are available at www.nuhairproducts.com.  The men’s program consists of Hair Regrowth Tablets for Men, DHT Blocker, and Thinning Hair Serum.  Women can order their vitamins for hair growth for women (which they call “Hair Regrowth Tablets for Women”) and the 2 additional products (DHT blocker and serum).  A 25-day supply of hair re-growth tablets for women is $25.66, and the men’s tablets cost the same.  The DHT blocker and serum are the same price each, $25.66, so the nutritional supplements alone will run you just over $50 for almost a month’s worth.

Hair Formula 37

Hair Formula 37 is a 2-step system of nutritional supplementation for hair growth.  The first “step” or bottle is a multivitamin, multi-mineral supplement containing 60 tablets.  The second step (which is actually 2 bottles) provides 90 tablets of amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein from which hair is formed.  You can start off with this 1-month supply for $49.99 from the www.hairformula37.com website.  (The Hair Formula 37 program also offers a shampoo and conditioner.)

The user reviews posted on the site are only positive, which leads one to wonder if the negative ones have been weeded out.  Some reviewers also make impossible claims, such as growth rates of 5 inches in a month.  Even the best vitamins for hair growth couldn’t possibly do this.  However, the company has been in business since 2003, and with a money-back guarantee, you can’t go wrong!

No matter which hair growth vitamins you choose, it is recommended that you take them consistently for at least three to six months before evaluating its success in your case.  This is because the hair follicles go into a resting phase (known technically as the telogen phase) of approximately three months, after which a new hair is generated in the follicle and the old hair is pushed out and shed.  It can take up a while after the shedding to see the new hair growth emerging.  So stick with your program!