Hair

[monkeyboy]

How does hair now when to stop growing?

Leghair etc stays short

 

[Buckalew11]

I think it sheds itself and then replenishes. I'm sure Google knows.

 

[SookieStackhouse]

I do not have any answers...but I can just say I have wondered this same thing too. I am glad I am not the only person who ponders such things from time to time.

 

[castmemberb4]

Eyebrows! Imagine if they didn't stop growing !

 

[I Love Pluto]

The hair-trimming fairy comes each night to keep our eyebrows, legs, etc. the proper lengths. She is a very busy fairy.

 

[tink_n_pooh]

Blame it on cytokines. Actually all hair has a growth cycle, it only grows for so long then it falls out and regrows

 

[deedeecee]

I have also wondered about this! Not just leg hair or eyebrow hair, but hair from the top of your head. I swear, my hair gets to a certain length (mid-back) and it feels like it stops growing (or it really, really slows down). Yet, other people can grow their hair super long, and it still looks thick and healthy.

 

[redlight]

Blame it on cytokines. Actually all hair has a growth cycle, it only grows for so long then it falls out and regrows

Right, the hair on legs and other places has a shorter life cycle than the ones on your head. I don't know why different people have different cycles for their hair. right now, my hair is getting really long and I may inadvertently test to see how long I can grow it.

 

[goofyernmost]

I believe you will find that it is all programed in the genes. Why does a group of cells become your liver, why does another group become an index finger, tongue, eyeball, ear, kidney, spleen and so on. It's part of genetic makeup and although science explains it, I'm not sure even they know how it does that, just that it does.

It's one of those things that we can spend a lot of time thinking about but even if we were able to figure it out...what would it matter.

 

[DMass]

Right, the hair on legs and other places has a shorter life cycle than the ones on your head.

Then I guess the hair on my head died young.

Fortunately they've been reincarnated in my ears and eyebrows.


I'm not bald...I'm taller than my hair.

 

[goofyernmost]

Then I guess the hair on my head died young.

Fortunately they've been reincarnated in my ears and eyebrows.


I'm not bald...I'm taller than my hair.

I have that same problem but to compound it I find out that I am also to short for my weight. Sometimes nothing works out right.