eli5: If we lose up to 200 hairs a day on our head, how are we not all bald by the time we’re in our 20’s?

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eli5: If we lose up to 200 hairs a day on our head, how are we not all bald by the time we’re in our 20’s?

In: Biology

Answer 1

We not only lose hair each day, but we also grow about the same amount. It’s only when you start losing more hairs than you grow each day, you start going bald.