If we're always constantly losing hairs, how is it possible that some people to have really lon

People lose 50 hairs a day and have 100000 hairs on their heads.

100000/50 = 2000 days or 5.5 years

If hair grows 6" a year then that's about 3 feet. How come in Guiness there's a woman with 20 foot long hair? She would have to shed 7 times less than normal to even have a single hair that long.

If we're always constantly losing hairs, how is it possible that some people to have really long hair?

While all hair goes through the three phases of growth, catagen, telogen, and anagen, the hair on the scalp remains in telogen, the growing phase, for far longer, from 2-6 years. %26lt;1%26gt;%26lt;2%26gt;

Hair grows between .3 and .4 of a mm every day during telogen. If world record holders report hair-lengths of 4.17m

and the growth is at .4 mm or .0004m then we can rationalize that the record holder's hair has been growing 29 years (4.17/.0004/356)m, on must speculate, then, that certain people have hair follicles with abnormally long telogen phases and perhaps that they have unusually fast growing %26amp; durable hair.

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If we're always constantly losing hairs, how is it possible that some people to have really long hair?

It's in the genes some women can't even get there hair past the arm pit area and other can just grown as long as they want

If we're always constantly losing hairs, how is it possible that some people to have really long hair?

3 little wordz, FREAKS OF NATURE

If we're always constantly losing hairs, how is it possible that some people to have really long hair?

Each hair is retained for its growing period: for the average person, 1.5-two years. Different people's hair also grows at different rates; on average, yes, six inches a year, but for some, it may be much more.

For people who have unusually long hair, the growing period may be longer than normal, or the growth rate, or any combination of the two.