Topical hair treatments and styling products may temporarily improve the appearance of the hair you already have, but to truly grow and maintain a thick, lush, lustrous head of hair, it’s essential to nourish your body with key hair growth nutrients.

Hair nutrition helps regrow hair in a variety of ways—from preventing nutrition deficiencies that can stall growth, to strengthening individual hair follicles to preventing premature shedding. In fact, there are four important ways that hair nutrition can improve the overall health and vitality of your hair—and support natural shine, body, thickness and length.

1) By delivering key hair growth nutrients

Nutritional deficiency has the power to impact both hair structure and hair growth.  Luckily, it’s possible to nourish the body with the vitamins and minerals it needs to help prevent these deficiencies and their accompanying side effects. Key nutrients needed to support strong, growing hair include zinc, biotin, and copper and keratin. Read on to learn how these nutrients impact the look and health of your hair.

Zinc has been connected to protein synthesis and cell division, and is involved in the signaling pathways of hair follicles, regulating hair growth. Considering hair is made up largely of protein—keratin in particular—making sure you get the proper amount of zinc helps fortify your body with the nutrients it needs for healthy hair.

Zinc deficiency plays a key role in hair loss, and there are a number of medical conditions and lifestyles that may make you more prone to zinc deficiency, including pregnancy and vegetarianism. Signs of deficiency include brittle hair and unusual hair loss. Studies show that in many cases, when low levels of zinc are corrected, hair loss can be reversed.

Next up is Biotin, which helps maintain hair strength. If you find you have patchy or overall hair loss, a biotin deficiency may be to blame. Biotin has been shown to improve brittle and splitting fingernails, which are made up of the same building blocks as hair, making it likely to improve the resilience of hair as well.

Copper is our next key nutrient. When you think of a gorgeous head of hair, you likely envision a thick, lustrous mane that catches the light at every turn. For many people, color is a large part of that vitality. That’s where maintaining proper copper levels in the body can help. Studies have found that low levels of copper are associated with prematurely graying hair. In one study, authors concluded that supplements may actually help reverse graying hair, restoring your original color to your hair.

Then there’s the powerhouse Keratin. Think of keratin as the ultimate beauty protein, one  that’s found in nails, skin and hair. In fact, up to 80-90% of your hair is made of keratin, making it essential for hair health, strength and resilience. 

You may be more familiar with topical keratin treatments, such as the salon treatments that are typically formulated with harmful formaldehyde. But even when you can find a treatment that doesn’t contain toxic chemicals, you’re still only temporarily treating the hair’s surface.  Keratin supplements influence the growth of this beauty protein from the inside out—making sure your hair is its most beautiful from the start.

OMI HAIR NUTRITION delivers a science-backed patented natural, bio-available keratin, the most advanced and active form of this protein. Clinical studies have shown that taking it consistently improves damaged, stressed hair—helping bring back hair strength, shine, and brightness, and reducing hair loss.

2) By strengthening follicles for less shed

Your hair follicles are like mini tree roots. In the same way that weakened tree roots flopping around in loose soil will produce, at best a sad, half-dead sapling, weakened follicles won’t produce and support healthy, resilient hair—and they’ll have a hard time preventing shedding of the hair that does grow. 

Hair nutrition strengthens follicles so that they hold on to your healthy, growing strands—reducing or eliminating the premature shed that causes such alarm when you look down at the shower drain. In fact,  OMI HAIR NUTRITION  has been shown to reduce hair loss from everyday activities such as brushing and washing, making hair  visibly improved within 30 days.

3) By boosting active hair growth

Hair growth supplements work to support healthy hair growth on many levels—including by increasing the number of hairs in the active hair growth phase (known as the “anagen” phase). Research on the proprietary ingredients in OMI HAIR NUTRITION show study participants had 8 times the amount of hairs in the active growth stage vs the control group. More than 90% of people experienced at least 10% more growth within 90 days.

4) By providing a foundation for healthy hair proteins

There are a number of amino acids that contribute to the overall structure of hair: Serine, Glutamic Acid, Cystine, and Methionine. These amino acids are necessary building blocks for keratin—making them essential for your healthiest, fullest, shiniest head of hair. OMI HAIR NUTRITION contains these amino acids in a highly bioavailable supplement form, and they’ve been found to have anywhere from 8.5 times to a whopping 72 times greater effect on hair structure in people who take the supplements, vs those who don’t.