Hair Growth: The Inside Edition
Hair growth reflects a lot about our self-esteem, preference, gender, age, and attitude.
Hair can be an attraction or a conflict.
From the beginning of time, there are different reasons why humans have hair.
Hair kept them warm, protected them from cuts and scrapes, it provides camouflage, and even serves as a nice handhold for the young, (ouch).
Our follicles serves as a protector by signaling bodily threats.
Nerve endings connected to the hair root tell us when our hair is being pulled and bothered.
Humans have the most hair follicles when we are in week 22 as a fetus.
This hair is called lanugo hair and it is only found only on human fetuses.
This is the thinnest type of hair.
Hair is made up of follicles, (tiny sacs) and shaft (long narrow passage).
The follicle lives deep under the surface of the skin and extends down into the dermis (layers that makes up the skin).
The shaft is made up of protein called keratin.
Which is a very strong protein made of amino acid.
The inner layer (medulla) and the middle layer (cortex) make up the majority of the shaft.
The base of the follicle contains little blood vessels that nourish the cells.
The living part of hair is the bulb that is located at the base, while the shaft of the hair that we see is dead.
Surrounding our follicles are tiny arrector pili muscles that gives you goose bumps.
These muscles squeeze the glands that lube up your hair with sebum from your sebaceous gland, giving you your own natural vitamin E that provides rich hair and skin conditioner.
It also goes through its own growth cycle that's unrelated to seasons or hormones.
It's a random biological process that is based primarily on genetic disposition.
The two main phases are anagen=active and telogen= resting.
Anagen is the beginning stage of the cycle.
The cells in the root are dividing quickly and pushing the hair out and normally takes 2 to 3 years.
The cells in the root of the follicles are dividing rapidly, adding to the shaft.
During this phase the hair grows about 1 cm every 28 days.
Telogen last around 100 days on the scalp and the hair is completely at rest (final cycle).
Fifty to one-hundred follicles are shed daily from a normal scalp.
The middle phase is catagen = transitional, it signals the end of the active growth of a hair.
This phase lasts for about 2-3 weeks while the hair converts to join the others.
The average adult head has up to 150,000 constant follicles over a lifetime.
Each one of those stands grows about 6 inches a year and has its own blood supply.
Women between the ages of 16-24 pump it out the fastest.
Hair is greatly influenced by health and diet with a delicate control of hormones.
It can struggle growing beyond certain lengths because they have a short active phase of growth instead of a long active phase of growth.
The hair on your arms, legs, eyelashes, and eyebrows has a very short active growth phase of 30-45 days.
The follicles that are viewed, is considered dead, but still requires gentle maintenance.
Armed with a little more indepth knowledge of our Hair, it should be easier to learn the proper steps of how to naturally grow hair.
Hair can be an attraction or a conflict.
From the beginning of time, there are different reasons why humans have hair.
Hair kept them warm, protected them from cuts and scrapes, it provides camouflage, and even serves as a nice handhold for the young, (ouch).
Our follicles serves as a protector by signaling bodily threats.
Nerve endings connected to the hair root tell us when our hair is being pulled and bothered.
Humans have the most hair follicles when we are in week 22 as a fetus.
This hair is called lanugo hair and it is only found only on human fetuses.
This is the thinnest type of hair.
Hair is made up of follicles, (tiny sacs) and shaft (long narrow passage).
The follicle lives deep under the surface of the skin and extends down into the dermis (layers that makes up the skin).
The shaft is made up of protein called keratin.
Which is a very strong protein made of amino acid.
The inner layer (medulla) and the middle layer (cortex) make up the majority of the shaft.
The base of the follicle contains little blood vessels that nourish the cells.
The living part of hair is the bulb that is located at the base, while the shaft of the hair that we see is dead.
Surrounding our follicles are tiny arrector pili muscles that gives you goose bumps.
These muscles squeeze the glands that lube up your hair with sebum from your sebaceous gland, giving you your own natural vitamin E that provides rich hair and skin conditioner.
It also goes through its own growth cycle that's unrelated to seasons or hormones.
It's a random biological process that is based primarily on genetic disposition.
The two main phases are anagen=active and telogen= resting.
Anagen is the beginning stage of the cycle.
The cells in the root are dividing quickly and pushing the hair out and normally takes 2 to 3 years.
The cells in the root of the follicles are dividing rapidly, adding to the shaft.
During this phase the hair grows about 1 cm every 28 days.
Telogen last around 100 days on the scalp and the hair is completely at rest (final cycle).
Fifty to one-hundred follicles are shed daily from a normal scalp.
The middle phase is catagen = transitional, it signals the end of the active growth of a hair.
This phase lasts for about 2-3 weeks while the hair converts to join the others.
The average adult head has up to 150,000 constant follicles over a lifetime.
Each one of those stands grows about 6 inches a year and has its own blood supply.
Women between the ages of 16-24 pump it out the fastest.
Hair is greatly influenced by health and diet with a delicate control of hormones.
It can struggle growing beyond certain lengths because they have a short active phase of growth instead of a long active phase of growth.
The hair on your arms, legs, eyelashes, and eyebrows has a very short active growth phase of 30-45 days.
The follicles that are viewed, is considered dead, but still requires gentle maintenance.
Armed with a little more indepth knowledge of our Hair, it should be easier to learn the proper steps of how to naturally grow hair.
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