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Login Here Signup Here Signup using FacebookI started eating raw again last week after falling off the wagon for awhile. I basically eat raw most of the day and have a regular vegetarian meal for dinner. I am not 100% raw now. I figure it is best for me to ease into a raw diet slowly again instead of going 100%.
Anyway, I noticed my hair is falling out again in larger amounts than normal. Granted, I have been under some stress because of work and financial things but when I was not eating raw I didn’t have this hair problem. I just don’t get it. What am I missing from my diet to make my hair fall out more? Am I not consuming enough calories? Is it something else? I even started taking a multi-vitamin just in case, One A Day Maximum vitamin. When I was eating high raw last year and earlier this year I also had this hair problem but it slowly subsided when I added the Vitamineral Green mix to my diet. I assumed then I just wasn’t consuming enough greens and other nutrients. But now I just don’t know anymore.
My typical diet so far looks like this:
breakfast: 1 sliced banana with cinnamon sprinkled on top along with a small handful of walnuts.
snack: Either a green smoothie or if I am in a hurry a green drink. My green drink consists of 4 to 5 oz. of 100% orange or grape juice usually store bought mixed in with Vitamineral Green. Vitamineral Green is a raw, organic green superfood powder mix, I love it.
lunch: A medium sized garden salad with different veggies and 1 to 2 tablespoons of hemp seed mixed in the salad. I also try to mix in some nutritional yeast for the extra protein. I sometimes use low fat commerical salad dressing.
snack: More fruit.
dinner: A vegetarian meal…. maybe pasta with marinara sauce.
snack: Usually some fruit and a small mixture of hemp seeds and walnuts. Sometimes I will indulge in a few carob chips.
Any thoughts on why this is happening and what I can do to correct it?
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I started losing my hair when I was on a really low fat diet of just fruit, veggies and lean meat about 10 years ago. I haven’t had that problem since becoming a raw vegan 5 months ago, but I do eat a lot of avocados, nuts, coconut oil and olive oil. You may just need to add more of those to your diet.
Have you tried black sesame? In traditional Chinese medicine, black sesame (not white sesame!) is considered to be the best herb/food for having lustrous, healthy hair. You can google it. Raw black sesame seeds and butter are available online. Hope it helps!!
you may want to consider that it could very likely be due to a lack of protein, and, being female, a lack of iron.
both can be issues for vegetarians/vegans/raw foodists. i know from experience because in the last 3 months since going 100% raw, i stopped using a protein powder i’ve taken for many years. i had read that you can get it all from the raw diet. (and perhaps that is still true). well my hair was shedding very badly for the past 2 weeks. at this time i also discovered that i accidentally purchased a version of my multivitamin that did not contain iron. i have had these issues in the past so i was considering lots of causes, but knew it was a must to build up these nutrients right away. i immediately went out and got a raw rice protien ‘nutribiotic’ and some iron. i’m happy to say it’s only been over a week and my hair isn’t shedding as of today. there are lots of articles on this in the alternative/natural health, and even mainstream health studies. maybe this might help your case. it’s worth looking into.