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Hair fall

Any vitamin supplements to reduce hair fall? Will biotin help?
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First question would be, who paid for the study?  I'm guessing the manufacturer.  And I'm with Gym here, if it's truly just tocotrienols, part of the Vitamin E complex, from palm oil, which is where they're generally sourced, then how did it get a patent?  From which country?  And is this a safe dose?  At any rate, the answer to whether any supplement will work depends on two things:  what's the cause of the hair loss, and how much of the ingredient are you getting now in your diet?  Biotin is one of the most prominent nutrients used for this problem, but there are so many nutrients that can be involved I'd recommend trying a product called Ultra Hair by Nature's Plus -- it will contain most of the nutrients involved.  An herb that has been used traditionally for this is a Chinese herb that has several different names -- fo it, shen min are two, and often in hair products it will be called shen min.  There are also topical products, usually for Africans, that have been used for this problem.  But this will, again, all depend on why you're losing hair.  If it's genetic and you're going to go bald, you're going to go bald.
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Don't know if your male or female but look into the following
100 milligrams of a palm-oil tocotrienol complex.

According to the information, the tocotrienol product used in the male pattern
baldness study contains 31.5 milligrams gamma-tocotrienol, 17.3 milligrams alphatocotrienol, 8.6 milligrams delta-tocotrienol, and 2.6 mlligrams beta-tocotrienol per capsule. If my math is correct, the two-capsule-per day dose adds up to 119 milligrams.

The specific formula used, called Tocomin SupraBio, is patented (how an entirely natural product managed to get a patent, I’m still not sure), and is said to absorb up to three times as well as similar products.

So if you have male pattern baldness, particularly early male pattern baldness (the early form of nearly any health problem is almost always easier to reverse, if it’s reversible),
should you try tocotrienols and see what happens?
The specific product used in the study was a palm tocotrienol complex called Tocomin SupraBio®.
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