• Question: how does our hair grow shorter when we are older

    Asked by 242bdya43 to Theresia, Giovanna, Duane, Andy on 12 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Duane Mellor

      Duane Mellor answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      If you are thinking about going bald. It is possibly as the male hormone causes hair follicles which the hairs grow out of to shrink

    • Photo: Andrew Philp

      Andrew Philp answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Hair contains lots of cells that regularly grow and die so that healthy hair is maintained. Ageing is associated with a gradual slowing of cells function, so i would guess that rate of hair growth slows as we age due to this process so we gradually get thinner hair.

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