5. Look for essential oils, herbs and vegetable oils in your hair care products. Essential oils such as rosemary, ylang-ylang and west indian bay help to stimulate hair growth. Lavender and tea tree and naturally antiseptic and help to fight dandruff. Vegetable oils such as soybean oil, safflower oil and corn oil are moisturizing and conditioning to hair shaft.

6. Avoid sleeping in hair accessories such as barrettes, scrunchies, head bands, etc. This can lead to hair damage.

7. Massage your scalp to help stimulate hair growth. Massaging helps stimulate hair growth by increasing blood flow to scalp. This nourishes hair roots and helps to stimulate hair growth process.

8. If your hair ends are damaged, give yourself a trim every so often to remove damage.

I have an allergic reaction to all artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame. Prolonged use, say 1 cup of artificially sweetened international coffee or 1 diet soda a day for a month, will raise my blood pressure above 150.

I have a similar reaction to prolonged use (two weeks or more) of all vitamins except Vitamins C and E.

I have a very bad physical reaction to several prescription medications and food supplements which include tetracycline, biocyllin and amino acids.

I used to get a Flu Shot every year – and I would get Flu 3 times a year. The first time was immediately after shot, second time was 3 months after shot and third time was 6 months after shot. I documented this for about 10 years and, after talking it over with my doctor, quit taking flu shots. I now get flu about once every 5 years or less and it doesn’t make me as sick as it used to make me.

The things I do, however, are things that keep me healthy. These are walking regularly and playing golf. They also include taking 2000 units of Vitamin C daily for over 40 years, and taking 50 units each of both Zinc and Selenium once a week. And about middle of November every year I up Zinc and Selenium intake to 5-6 times a week.

I play Santa at a mall every Christmas season for 4-5 weeks, and I come into contact with just about every disease and bug known to man during that period. Yet I seldom get sick, and when I do get sick I neither feel sick nor exhibit symptoms to those around me. I attribute this to Zinc and Selenium I take. I’ve been taking these for 8 years now, and in that time have only been sick once – and at that, no one around me knew I was sick.

Each of us is different from one another; each of us must make our own personal health assessment. We must learn to recognize what our body is telling us about what is going on inside and why, and we must also learn which preventatives work and which don’t on an individual basis.

In this article I’m telling you what works for me and why, and what doesn’t. It’s up to you to learn what works for you and what doesn’t and why. And then to do whatever it takes to maintain your health at optimum levels. Good luck and good health.