Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute

Friday. Let's talk about hair. I am obsessed with hair right now, and maybe it's because COVID made all

my hair fall out. I don't know. How about you guys? It's epidemic between seeing ladies get so many

extensions and complaining about so much hairfall, I am wanting

to learn more and more and more about healthy, thick, gorgeous hair. So let's talk about it.

What can you do to get healthy, thick, gorgeous hair? Now, did you know, on average,

each strand of hair grows about half an inch in a month, but it doesn't

grow like that nonstop.

I wish it did, but it grows in cycles and bursts.

So to any given moment, about 85% of your follicles are in the antigen growing phase.

And then the rest of the follicles are either in catagen transitioning phase or telogen resting phase

so for some people the growing phase lasts long like as long as six seven years for other people

it's only as little as two two months two years at the end of this stage the strand falls out

and the follicle remains dormant and

hairless for about three months. And after that, you finally get a little sprig of hair

sprouting and the growth process starts again. And chances are if you have real short hair

and your hair just doesn't grow past your shoulders, you might have a

shorter antigen cycle than other people do. And what are some things that slows down the growth

and makes your hair grow poorly or fall out worse? Bad things. Things that can make your hair

fall out would include extensions bleaching stress certain

medication side effects and certain things that we do to our scalps like putting traction on them

with heavy clips tight hair styles braids if your family has women with Rapunzel like hairlocks but your hair is not

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