Beard Hair Growth Strategies Part 2

As in part 1: Take any and all health advice found herein with a grain of salt and talk to your doctor before engaging in any health-related practices you find on the internet. By continuing to read, you accept all responsibility for anything you do, and waive all rights to sue me for anything related.

This article is going to continue where part 1 left off in order to educate and inspire you to seek out help to grow a better beard, or a beard at all.

We finished off part 1 discussing some supplement options available for helping beard growth. Continuing the idea of ingestible things, if actual food is an option, there are dietary plans.

1. A Beardly Diet

It’s important to get a proper diet for all aspects of health, but also if you want great facial hair. A beard growing diet should have plenty of all the nutrients whose deficiencies cause hair to thin and fall out when you’re (like iron and zinc) and lots of protein (preferably from bioavailable sources like meat). Your diet should also have as few “anti-nutrients” as possible, compounds that cause your body to burn through, block the uptake of, or lose vitamins. It should also be a diet that has many testosterone inducing precursors, the building blocks that make testosterone or cause your body to produce more of it. Make sure you get less Omega 6 and more Omega 3 for example.

2. Massage and Heat for Beard Growth

Places like The Hair Fuel maintain that blood flow is the number one thing regarding hair growth. So, it stands to reason that if it is so important, this would include facial hair also. There are many things that can be done to improve blood flow, but some of the easiest and simplest are surface massages and applications of heat. Gentle yet firm surface massages of the face can increase blood flow, yet not so vigorously you’d damage your hair follicles. Applications of warm, and/or warm and wet wash cloths to the face can also increase surface blood flow. Never so hot or long in duration as to burn yourself or cause major discomfort obviously, but enough to give yourself a vibrant feeling of increased circulation. Finding the balance to optimize your blood flow to help get nutrients in, and waste particles out.

3. Lasers to help Grow Hair

General consensus that I could find in all my research on the subject is that most hair doctors claim using lasers (clinically approved to help treat hair loss) can’t be used to make you grow a better beard or a beard at all, but they might help you by preventing hair loss due to other issues like disease or malnutrition. That said there are any number of products that tout claims doing this anyway. Various combs and the like. If lasers can prevent hair loss, or improve hair health for the head, I don’t see how they could hurt trying them for the same reasons on the face. Even the placebo effect might help in this regard. In such a case though it’s really up to you to decide whether to spend your money on something that might not work (and probably won’t according to experts). The mechanisms for lasers working are purportedly the same as with massage or heat applications, that is they increase microcirculation to hair follicles, so I personally don’t see why they couldn’t work to help you with improving your beard health or growth patterns. If you do decide to give laser hair growth therapy a try for yourself, be sure to keep careful logs for a month before, during, and after and see if it’s made any changes for you.

End of part 2.