Things About Your Hair You Didn’t Know

How fast does my hair grow?

There are several factors that determine the growth of your hair these are:

1. Your health
2. Age
3. Hair type
4. Genes

All these factors play a major role in speeding your hair growth. Well, it is said that the average number of hair follicles one is born with are 5 million and the head has got about 100,000 of them.

Hair grows at a rate of 0.44 millimetres some to an average of 0.5 inches per day.

What determines the colour of your hair?

Hair colour is majorly determined by the colour pigment available in the skin. The common pigments are Eumelanin, which causes the black pigmentation and the Pheomelanin, which causes yellow and red pigment. The availability of the pigmentations in your melanin will determine the colour of your hair.

What causes hair loss?

Generally, hair readily falls out as more of it grows back. Sometimes the loss of hair is sometimes scary and discouraging if one is trying to grow hair. Here are some of the reasons your hair maybe falling up more than usual.

1. Heredity
2. Medicines
3. Age
4. Hormones
5. Alopecia areata a disease that affects the immune system forcing the hair to fall off.

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How many strands of hair do you have?

Averagely a normal human is born with around 5million hair follicles in the body but the head contains around 100,000 only. For blondes the number of follicles lie between 140,000 to 150,000 while those with dark hair heads with only 100,000 to 110,000 strands and lastly the red once with 90,000.

How heat stimulates hair growth

Heat allows circulation of blood through your body all the way to your hair follicle nourishing it with the right ingredients for hair growth like moisture and essential oils. What actually stimulates growth of hair naturally, here are other things that enhance hair growth naturally

1. Aloe Vera
2. Coconut oil
3. Rosemary
4. Onions fish oil
5. Coffee

What is the strength of your hair?

One’s hair has the capacity to support 100gram of weight if you do the math then with around 100,000 strands of hair you have the capacity to support two elephants.

 What is a Hair Cuticle?

This is the layer of skin that protects the hair. A healthy cuticle is smooth and with closed scales unhealthy cuticle looks like open pages of a dirty magazine. The thicker your skin cuticle the less vulnerable your hair if t breakage. People of the Asian descent have more layered cuticle than those of African descent making it better for their hair to withstand more damage.

Relationship between sex and hair

 Sex is a vigorous physical activity. It improves the blood circulation in your body all the way from your air to your toes. For those with an active sex lives one is likely to increase their hair growth to longer lengths and grow quite healthy hair.

What is dandruff?

Dandruff are white flakes of skin that appear on skin and are mostly accompanied by a lot of itching. Dandruff isn’t contagious as it’s often perceived by many. It can be treated by use medicated shampoo and other products that are locally available worldwide.

Several reasons that may lead to increased formation of dandruff are medical conditions, hair products, age and weather. There might be other causes such as underlying health issues so it is very important to visit a doctor for the right prescription when the dandruff is a lot.

How long it takes to grow hair?

They are several factors that determine the grow of hair in an individual such as genes, weather and age. Averagely, a person grows half an inch of hair per month that’s around 6 inches per year.

Predictably, your hair might take 7 years to grow all the way to your waist and 3 years to your shoulders.

Is your hair dead?

 YES! Hair is dead beyond the scalp that’s one is not in pain when you cut. Beneath the scalp is a bulb in which living hair exists. Inside the bulb new hair cells are formed and they grow out of a follicle when old and dead. They are pushed out and that’s how you see it as hair it on your scalp, basically old dead cells. The old dead hair cells appear thread-like from your hair scalp the actual hair we see.

Parts of your body without hair?

Your whole body has around 5 million hair strands with the head having 100,000 of them. But they are some parts that are totally not covered with hair these include the soles of feet, the palm of your hands and the lips.

 Hair texture?

Hair texture is determined by the circumference of one’s hair. Hair texture is not hair curl pattern hair texture is more of how the hair feels also said to be the diameter of the hair. There are three types of hair textures namely; fine hair texture, medium hair texture, coarse hair texture.

Fine hair is very fragile it’s thins its usually hard to keep the hair in a style and too much product makes it break easily.

Medium hair texture is thick since it has more layers as compared to fine` hair texture. It keeps hairstyles better and does not break as much.

Thick hair/ coarse hair it has three layers the cortex, medulla and cuticle. It holds hairstyles well and has a thick texture. It takes longer to dry and behaves a bit fizzy when the weather is humid.

What hair says about your IQ?

   According to studies hair can say a lot about your IQ and intelligence levels what you have been taking example, drugs.

People with a higher intelligence their hair strands are found to have more of copper and zinc as studies have shown.

Additionally, people with blond hair have high intelligence levels of averagely 103 followed by brown hair with 102 then red hair with 101 lastly black hair with 100

Does hair grow when we die?

The misleading misconception has always been that hair continues to grow when one dies. In death, the human body shrinks due to dehydration causing the body to expose parts of hair and nails under the skin

Keep learning, keep healthy

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