Biotin - What It Is & Why You Need It
Helping convert food into energy, biotin is a vitamin that plays an important role in your body and your health. A form of vitamin B, biotin is also referred to as vitamin H and vitamin B-7 and may be able to help improve a person’s hair, nails and skin along with other benefits.
Regular use of biotin may improve the health of hair, nails and skin
Hair- Many people with a vitamin B deficiency will find themselves with dry, brittle hair suffering from breakage and for many, they experience hair loss. Adding biotin into your diet may be able to improve the look and feel by smoothing and strengthening hair and possibly minimize hair loss.
Nails- Those dealing with fragile, brittle nails that are easily breakable may find a deficiency may be causing nail issues as a result. When adding a healthy diet alongside biotin supplements you may find yourself with stronger, healthier nails.
Interesting Fact About Biotin:
Did you know that biotin not only supports hair and nail health but is a metabolism support too?
Biotin is like the superhero sidekick of your metabolism, it helps the body to turn food into energy. Without biotin, your body's enzymes can't do their job as effectively, and it can be a bit harder for your body to use the energy from food. But don't worry, you can easily get biotin from eating foods like eggs, nuts, and leafy greens. Think of biotin as the "energy booster" for your body, it makes everything run smoother and more efficiently!
Skin- In order to get glowing, healthy skin, it’s essential that vitamin B works in how fat is being metabolized. Deficiencies cause redness, rashes and even scaly, peeling skin, and with biotin these conditions may improve.
Biotin when taken regularly with a healthy lifestyle can help with the prevention of wrinkles and signs of aging by creating new skin cells for a younger look and healthy glow. As you age, skin and hair begin to look dry and dull and with the help of biotin and it’s smoothing and moisturizing properties that can change..
Biotin isn’t just used for healthy hair and nails but it can help treat many other issues including:
Muscle pain
Sleep issues
Depression
Dermatitis
It also has the ability to maintain healthy sweat glands as well as healthy bones and nerves.
There are ways to supplement
Our bodies aren’t able to store water-soluble types of vitamins and due to the fact biotin is itself water-soluble, a great way to supplement it is by absorbing it through the foods you eat.
Some popular foods that can help in supplementing your body with biotin are:
Peanuts
Oats
Egg Yolks
Carrots
Soybeans
Vitamins
Many women’s multivitamins as well as prenatal vitamins contain Biotin as an ingredient as it’s safe to use by everyone and well tolerated with little to no side effects. Before adding any new vitamins or supplements into your diet it’s highly recommended to talk to your physician to avoid any interactions with current medicines and supplements but also to see if you’re a good candidate that will benefit from this great vitamin.