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From Root to Ritual

Your hair is a monthly receipt from your body. Here is what the last three months of your diet have been telling you.

Your hair is a monthly receipt from your body. Here is what the last three months of your diet have been telling you.

Hair grows roughly half an inch a month. Which means the hair sitting on your shoulders right now was being built by your body last spring. What you were eating then โ€” how much protein, what your iron stores looked like, whether you were getting enough โ€” is written in your hair, whether you can read it or not. A clinical study found mean ferritin levels of 16.3 ng/mL in women with telogen effluvium, compared to 60.3 ng/mL in healthy controls. The difference is not in their genetics. It is in their blood work. Here is what to actually eat for your hair.