Hair growth pills are typically all natural vitamins formulated to solve a certain type of hair concern. The most common concern is probably hair loss but there are many others ranging from graying hair to simply growing hair longer. The formulations often contain a mixture of  minerals, vitamins, and amino acids (all of these can be found in foods) so there are no side effects. But can hair growth pills really solve your big hair issue and how? The answer like anything else depends on a host of factors.

The first thing to understand is that hair problems can be the result of some kind of nutritional deficiency. For example, if you’re not getting enough iron in your diet, it can cause your hair to thin and fall out. So if you make sure that you get your daily dose of iron your hair should stop thinning. So often hair growth pills take a sort of shotgun approach and just include a wide variety of nutrients  that are sometimes missing from a normal diet. And honestly, that can sometimes solve common problems.

However, if you have a very specific hair concern, let’s say your hair has grown to a certain length, but you would like it to grow longer there are different hair vitamins to meet those different needs. A vitamin to encourage longer hair growth will contain high amounts of proteins, biotin, niacin and so forth – as these nutrients are needed to optimum hair growth. But will this type of hair growth pill always work? The answer is maybe; if you are an extremely healthy person who eats a diet that provides 100% of the wide variety of nutrients your body needs, you exercise regularly, don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t do drugs, keep your stress low….etc than maybe not. But if you’re like every other normal person, than you could probably use a little help to make sure you’re hair gets everything it needs. In other words, for most people hair growth pills can provide some legitimate benefit, while for a small minority they may not.

The good news is many brands of hair supplement makers provide a money back guarantee where you can try the product for a month or so and return it if you see no results.