Hey Luckiest, what's your diet like? You mentioned in an earlier post that your diet along with this has given you over an inch a month... Thanks!
My diet is simply whole foods, instead of junk with 80 percent of my food coming from vegetables (I try to have a range of vegetables including whole grains and peas like chicpeas,etc some vegetarian foods do have protein in it so I'm probably getting more protein from that) and 20 percent from meat. I've been eating lots of fish and chicken and reduced red meat to almost nothing. My next step is to cut up my fish (including fish, scallops, crab, etc) and cut down my chicken.
I also drink nettle tea once a day(it tastes like black tea so it's really easy to drink and I think it pushes things up a notch though it took weeks to start seeing results from it...around a few from what I remember), and then my nettle tea rinse everytime I wash. Nettle tea is known to increase hair growth. So I like doing it internally AND externally.
For external nettle tea hair rinse: I boil the nettle tea, I then add real herbs: rosemary, sage (and if I can get a peach pit I smash it up and also use it, otherwise just the rosemary, sage, and nettle), chop up the herbs, and boil it all together with the nettle in a pot. I've found the amount matters, but I've been doing it for so long now that I just can eye ball it, so I can't tell you how much of each to use.
Then I let it sit to infuse for at least a few hours or a day, strain, and bottle. Sometimes I also throw a regular tea bag in with the nettle and everything in it, for the caffeine effect (helps with shedding). It can sit for a week or so without problems, but I found a natural preservative online that I use so it keeps longer. I just put them in a nozzle, and when I wash, I make sure that it's my last rinse. During the week, if I have extra time, I divide my hair and just put some on my scalp: I use an eye dropper. Most times I don't bother as I've noticed lots of benefits from just doing thetea rinse.
The thing about right, it will show in your hair, but it takes a while to show up. Like I started eating right before the nettle tea and it took a couple months before my hair growth was affected (but it was definitely something that pushed up my growth), then the nettle tea kicked it up another notch.
That's why I was looking into chlorella to take it to another place. Because I've gotten into such a simple routine. I eat right naturally now without effort, and the rinse takes no time to prepare, and I store it for weeks, and I just go wash and use it, and that's it. I also wanted a supplement that goes along with the simple kiss method that I'm using now. Oh and I was also drinking green drinks, but another type. I couldn't afford that type any more so I bought the whole foods brand that had everything in it, but an addition was chlorella.
I've lost a lot of weight just doing this too (if you don't want to just eat more grains and stuff) but I also noticed green drinks help. (The one I just bought from whole foods that I mentioned earlier in the thread.
BTW do I occasionally eat junk (junk food)? Yes, I'm human and sometimes I'm in a rush, but I make sure that it's only once in a while.
I just edited because I forgot to add. You leave the tea rinse on. You don't rinse it out. The nettle also makes the hair soft. I do the rinse after the dc and everything. If I'm leaving in extra conditioner, I still do it, I hold my head back, take my rinse, and pour it, focusing on the scalp (sometimes I use a spray bottle and separate the hair, so that I can focus it on the scalp without wasting extra tea rinse. I like to make a batch once or twice a month only, and then refridgerate it, or just leave it in my cabinet, so I try to use it only where it'll do benefit. But if you get it on the hair, nettle has conditioning and softening so no biggie, but you want it on the scalp where it can stimulate growth)