Why do long-haired people shed so many individual hairs everyday and yet they don’t go bald?

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Why do long-haired people shed so many individual hairs everyday and yet they don’t go bald?

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Because each strand of hair goes through a growth cycle which ends with it being shed. If they are shedding some hairs every day, they are also starting to grow some hairs everyday, so they get replaced at about the same rate as they are lost.

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