INOSITOL

Prevents Hair Loss

Inositol is member of the Vitamin B group. It is a crystalline compound, which has a sweet taste. It is highly soluble in water, and is not destroyed by heat in neutral, acid, and alkaline mediums. It is however, destroyed by sulphur drugs, food-processing techniques, alcohol, and coffee.

Functions in the Body

Inositol is essential for the transportation of fat in the body. Like choline, it has been found important in providing nourishment to the brain cells. It helps lower cholesterol levels. Inositol also promotes the growth of healthy hair and helps to prevent its falling. It helps in preventing eczema.

Sources

The most important sources of Inositol are liver, brewer’s yeast, dried lima beans, beef brain and heart, grapefruit, raisins, wheat germ, unrefined molasses, peanuts, and cabbage.

Deficiency Symptoms

According to research, the deficiency of Inositol can cause alopecia or patchy baldness, gastritis, hypertension, fatty infiltration in the liver, hardening of the liver, and eczema.

Healing and Therapeutic Properties

Therapeutic administration of Inositol has resulted in small reductions in plasma cholesterol levels in hypercholesterolemic patients.

Premature Greying. Inositol is one of the three anti-grey-hair B group vitamins, the other two being pantothenic acid and para-aminobenzoic acid (paba). 

Baldness. Bald-headedness in men is considered to be a partly nutritional deficiency caused by lack of Inositol. Although this vitamin may help to stimulate the growth of a woman’s hair, its lack is probably not a major cause of slow growth.

Heart Disease. Inositol, along with choline, has been found valuable in the treatment of heart diseases.