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What is the normal life cycle of a hair?

Answer: Hair is made in tiny pockets in the skin called hair follicles. Each scalp hair has a normal life cycle. Most scalp hairs last about three years and grow about 1 cm a month. After a period of time: approximately three years, each hair on the scalp comes to the end of its life cycle and falls out. The hair follicle rests for a short while. It then starts to generate a new hair.

All the hairs on the scalp are at different stages in their life cycle. At any one time about 1 in 100 scalp hairs are at the end of their life cycle and are ready to fall out. This is why you will commonly find a few hairs on your shoulders and pillow, and some hairs fall out each time you wash your hair: on average about 80 to 120 a day can be seen by the naked eye.

If you are concerned about the amount of hair that you are currently losing why not call 0207 976 6868 and speak to one of our trichologist who will be happy to help and advise you.

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Is My Hair Loss Permanent? What Is A Hair Growth Cycle?

Question: Is my hair loss permanent? What is a hair growth cycle?

Answer: It is normal to lose 75-100 individual hairs daily. With male pattern baldness, new hair growth is diminishing in taking the place of hairs that are shed. Hair is constantly growing in cycles. These cycles are as follows:

ANAGEN – This is the growth cycle in which cells divide and elevate to the upper portion of the hair bulb, as dead cells. Hairs in this growth stage become longer and larger. The anagen cycle normally runs in durations of two to seven years.

CATAGEN– During the catagen stage the hair is separated from it’s nutritional source and hair growth stops. The follicle begins to shrink and no melanins, which create hair colour, are added. The duration of this cycle is normally two to three weeks.

TELOGEN– During this cycle (which ranges in time from one to four months) the hair either falls out or is forced out by new growth. With a normal growing head of hair the anagen cycle begins again at this stage. Each individual hair is totally independent. The anagen stage normally involves between eighty-five percent and ninety five percent of the total number of hairs on one’s scalp. The catagen stage normally involves less than one percent of the total amount of scalp hairs. The telogen cycle involves five to fifteen percent of total scalp hairs.

When you are losing hair through pattern hair loss, the catagen and telogen stage are not accelerated but instead, the anagen stage diminishes on a gradual basis with the hair growing finer and finer and also shorter until growth is virtually invisible.

Call one of our trichologists and identify which male pattern you are and seek advice as to what treatments are available and possible in your particular case as not everyone is treatable and results will vary from patient to patient.

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Hats and Hair Loss. True or False?

Question: Does wearing a baseball cap or motor bike crash helmet every day increase a man’s chances of going bald?

Answer: No, balding comes from within the scalp, from the genes that initiate each hair to grow. Even wearing a baseball cap or motor bike crash helmet for years and never taking it off and all you will have is a scaling, dirty full head of hair if your genetics are not ‘hereditary’.

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Can I Have My Hair Back? We Offer Every Solution.

“The diseases related to hair and scalp, including hair loss in young women and children are on the rise. Keeping the same in mind, we have set up a state-of-the-art equipments to test a person’s hair and scalp. After the test and its analysis, we find out the root cause of the hair problem and treat the patient accordingly. We also offer solutions for camouflaging: both surgical and non-surgical. Temporary solutions are also available.”

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