How to Get Thick and Shiny Hair

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’m going to tell you how to get thick and shiny hair naturally! Biotin is a B vitamin that many people take for thick, shiny hair. It can come from the diet, but it can also come from the gut microbiome.

The good bacteria in your gut make biotin. This is why a common side effect of antibiotics is hair problems. When you stop taking biotin, you may notice that the problem comes right back, so it’s vital to address gut health when dealing with biotin deficiency.

Liver and egg yolks are the best sources of biotin. Nutritional yeast and salmon also contain biotin. Alcohol, raw eggs, and magnesium deficiency can interfere with biotin absorption. Zinc and copper are essential for biotin absorption and function.

Retinol, the active form of vitamin A, is only found in animal foods. Liver and egg yolks are the best sources, but you can also find vitamin A in shellfish and cod liver oil. Vitamin A helps control sebum, so it’s very beneficial for thick, shiny hair!

For healthy hair, reduce your omega-6 fat intake and increase your omega-3s. Omega-3 fatty acids are vital for healthy hair. Fish oil and cod liver oil are excellent sources of omega-3s.

L. reuteri is a microbe missing in 96% of the population. It increases sebum, which makes hair shiny, and it may also increase hair growth.

Copper is used in many different enzymes, including the enzyme that helps prevent iron accumulation in your tissues. Iron is vital for hair growth, but we need the right balance. NPK fertilizer in our foods is a common cause of copper deficiency. If the grass is deficient in copper, the animals that eat the grass will also be deficient.

Animals with copper deficiency have very dull hair. If this can happen to sheep and cows, it can definitely happen to us!

Overconsumption of iron, often from fortified wheat products, can lock up your copper and contribute to copper deficiency. Other contributors to copper deficiency include high fructose corn syrup and high zinc intake.

If you want healthy hair, add the following foods to your diet:

•Fermented foods (i.e. kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi)

•Liver

•Egg yolks

•Cod liver oil/cod liver

•Organic foods

•Trace minerals

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0:00.0	Today we're going to show you how to make thick and shiny hair. And as you know, with my videos,
0:04.1	I like to tell you what's behind things, what's the root cause of certain things. And when we talk
0:08.6	about hair, realize that anything going on with your hair is the tip of the iceberg. And I'm not
0:13.6	interested in having you take more supplements. We're going to relate a lot of this to your diet and food, because ultimately that's the best source. But let's start
0:21.3	with biotin. This is a B vitamin. A lot of people take biotin, and it does help the thickness of
0:27.1	your hair. It helps your nails. It helps your skin. But why do you need to take biotin? Are we
0:32.2	deficient in biotin? Biotin can come from the diet, but it can also come from your own gut microbiome. Your good bacteria
0:40.6	make biotin. And one side effect of antibiotics is a problem with your hair. And that's because
0:48.0	certain microbes are no longer there or they're in smaller amounts and they're just not making
0:53.1	enough biotin. There's a huge connection
0:54.9	between some alteration in your gut and problems with your hair because of a biotin deficiency.
1:00.5	This is why people that start taking biotin might see a change, but then when they stop
1:04.5	taking biotin, the hair problem comes right back. A couple other reasons why people might
1:08.8	be deficient in biotin is that they eat raw eggs.
1:12.2	There's a certain chemical in the egg that if you don't cook it, can combine with biotin,
1:17.0	lock it up and prevent the absorption.
1:19.1	If you cook the whites of the egg, okay, not the yolk, you don't have to worry about it.
1:23.0	You're not going to become deficient in biotin.
1:25.0	Alcohol is another reason why people are deficient in biotin. Alcohol
1:28.6	messes with your liver. It also messes with the absorption of biotin. What are the best sources of
1:33.1	biotin? Liver, egg yolks. Here you have this great biotin that's in the yolk that won't be absorbed
1:39.7	because of some other chemical in the white of the egg. So this is why you need to cook your eggs,
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