Timeline for Why does hair grow after trimming but remains at a constant length after a while?
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 13:23 | comment | added | WYSIWYG | @cowlinator not the tip but the root. It doesn't break. It is displaced by a new incoming hair tip. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 3:19 | comment | added | cowlinator | To be clear, you are implying that the only reason your hair has a limited length is that the tip of the hair "sheds" (breaks and falls off)? | |
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| Sep 18, 2017 at 15:04 | comment | added | User2341 | To be clear, you are implying that the only reason your hair has a limited length is that the skin itself regenerates, causing the hair to fall out? | |
| Jan 11, 2015 at 5:32 | comment | added | WYSIWYG | @rumtscho Yes that happens indeed. It is mentioned in the paper. For example head hair and body hair. I also cannot find an explicit statement but it is indicated implicitly. for eg: "Except for the last subphase, anagen VI (the duration of which dictates the shaft length), the length of the anagen subphases I–V does not differ substantially between follicles from different regions" | |
| Jan 10, 2015 at 19:34 | comment | added | rumtscho | Interesting. I looked at the source, and it seemed to imply that hair length is determined only by the length of time in which the hair has grown, which would assume constant growth speed. This would be a very interesting fact, I'd intuitively assume that hair (within the same animal) grows with different speed depending on body part and the current state of the body chemistry. Do you know if such difference exists, or is it a constant speed growth process? I don't remember an explicit statement from the paper, it was just an impression I got, maybe I overlooked something. | |
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| Jan 10, 2015 at 9:37 | history | answered | WYSIWYG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |