Hair Facts 101
Hair is made up of the same material your fingernails are made up of, collagen. It can be considered as a form of organic plastic for it comes from living tissue that is produced by the hair follicle. As the fetus develops inside the womb, an average of about 5 million hairs develop all over the body. The ones on your head are called terminal hair and are the ones that become very much prominent through the later phases of life. As adolescence sets in, hormones trigger the growth of hair on the armpits, around the genitals and the chest. As we get older, the follicles or hair factories begin to loose their ability to replace hair which falls out regularly which can be at the rate of a couple of hundred daily. The older we get they begin to loose pigmentation and grow slower till they stop by the time you reach 50 with others going through this phase earlier. Some people suffer from a condition that discolors the hairs thought the particular individual is still young. The hair color changes to ashen giving him/her the appearance of older age. Other conditions do come up and can be found through the internet like the one from Seager Hair Transplant Center and many others.
Filed under: Hair Treatments, Trends on March 10th, 2012