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The #1 Tip for Hair Growth and Thicker Hair
Introduction: How to Promote Hair Growth
In this article, I’m going to share with you a practical, simple, inexpensive tip to increase hair growth, as well as increase the thickness of your hair.
Hair grows in three stages, and each strand of hair follows its timeline:
- Anagen. The active growth phase of hair lasts 3–10 years.
- Catagen. The transition phase, where hair stops growing, lasts 2–3 weeks.
- Telogen. The resting phase, where hair falls out, lasts 3–4 months.
At any given time, the average scalp has 90 percent of the hair follicles in the anagen phase, about 1 percent in the catagen phase, and about 9 percent in the telogen phase. The last group accounts for approximately 100 to 150 strands falling out daily.
How long the anagen phase lasts depends on how long your hair is and if the cells in your follicle base continue to multiply and become hair cells.
Hair grows because matrix cells shed some of their structure as they reach the upper follicle. The shed structure combines with keratins to form hair strands that exit your skin’s surface.
Researchers are still looking into what triggers our bodies to switch on the anagen phase, and…
