OK gents, before I give you the run down about your hair loss and baldness, I like to take the time here and talk briefly about how a well balanced diet can save you. Baldness and diet are interrelated as healthy hair needs proper diet and care to keep it soft and shining. It also needs a lot of food from the inside. That means consuming fruits, vegetables and grains in higher proportion to your diet. This is where our Chop to Impress eBook can help you to get back into a healthy lifestyle and give your hair an opportunity to do it's magic.

It is now possible to have test tube babies, but the world is still waiting for a test tube solution for baldness. Reversing human hair loss appears to be a hard nut to crack for scientists, who have been looking for a solution for decades now. That's lamentable, considering the market potential. Just about 35 million American men are said to spend a whooping $1.5 Billion a year trying to restore their precious hair.

Baldness is a condition that mostly affects men, since it has something to do with genetics. Women may experience severe hair loss, but it's mostly because of complicated health reasons. Although the state of baldness is less of an affliction today than some years gone by (so much so that its now fashionable and even attractive to have a clean-shaven head) it still something that causes many a men to cringe at the prospects. In the world of business, men who otherwise wouldn't be taken seriously suddenly are, courtesy of their shining scalps. The Achilles heels for baldness is that women generally don't favor that almost seem to have imaginary stickers written “slap me!” And it's just too bad if the scalp looks threadbare and un-moisturized.

What Really Causes Baldness?

It's now a good opportunity to debunk the myths about male baldness. Your mother's relatives are not to blame, contrary to a popular belief. Baldness can be inherited from either side. Shampooing your hair also doesn't accelerate hair loss. Baldness is a condition that many of us have a feeling of hopelessness about, since we have little control over the events that lead to it.

There is more than one gene responsible for baldness, something which makes it even more difficult dealing with the condition. But there is a consensus in the scientific world that an enzyme responsible for converting male hormone called testosterone into another chemical known as DHT (dihydrotestosterone) may have something to do with the starting of the balding process. Further than that, science has yet to provide the answer why DHT causes hair follicles to stop regenerating and growing into some brand new hair. Still less known is why the hair on the sides of the head behaves in a different way.

Be Proactive and Reduce your Potential for Baldness

One may take some measures to slow the momentum of hair loss. These include some practical measures like:

1. Avoid hair treatment methods that do damage to hair strands like breaching, hot rollers and perming your hair. Well, that doesn't exactly sound like a man's problem, but women too occasionally suffer from baldness.
2. Avoid overzealous combing of wet hair, for at this time it is at its most vulnerable as its structure is more fragile.
3. Avoid closely-toothed combs. Choose brushes with smooth tips.

Raw Foods and Hair Loss.

Eating balanced diet meals is essential for the prevention of hair loss. Raw foods that are rich in vitamin and iron in particular are helpful for this cause.

Here are some other vital nutrients that will prevent baldness, found within raw foods:

• Vitamin A (Carrots, apricots, cabbage)
• Vitamin C (Citrus fruits, berries Kiwifruit)
• Vitamin E (raw nuts and seeds, legumes)
• Biotin (nuts, cauliflower)
• Minerals (dark green vegetable and nuts)

While you cannot control hereditary factors, you can lessen the impact of dramatic hair loss through appropriate dieting. Diets will ensure that you have all the required nutrients, that if in the end there will be hair loss, it shall not be as prominent as it would otherwise be.

By TTS Cofounder Botanical Chef Omid Jaffari