Here`s how to grow your hair faster!!
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Topic: Here`s how to grow your hair faster!!
Posted By: Jennifer
Subject: Here`s how to grow your hair faster!!
Date Posted: January 02 2002 at 4:30pm
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It seems like every other post is asking how to make hair grow faster and longer. I`m not a scientist or a stylist, but I`ve done a fair amount of reading and here`s what I`ve personally discovered. First of all, everyone has a genetically pre-determined length to which hair will grow. That explains why it`s possible for one person to grow his hair past his feet yet another person can`t seem to grow hair past the shoulders (even though the person may be doing absolutely everything he can to make it grow!). Among factors that determine rate of actual growth are general health, nutrition, and stress levels. Your genetic makeup is absolutely #1 and unfortunately, of course, there is nothing we can do to change biology. Often someone will take some "magic" formula, such as vitamins and then swear that his hair grew faster. It probably did! But the reason is that the person was most likely not receiving all the nutrients his body needed in the first place. In other words, if you eat an optimal diet (receiving all the nutrients your body needs), exercise regularly and are in excellent health, then there is NOTHING that will make your hair grow faster. If your hair grows faster after taking vitamins, it simply means that your body was not receiving all the vitamins and minerals it needed in the first place. It would be wonderful to have some magic formula that ensures faster hair growth! But, nothing has been scientifically proven to make your hair grow faster than what your own body intended. If anyone finds any legitimate claims, let us know! If and when that ever happens, you can be it will be on the front page of most newspapers. Until then, we just need to lead healthy lives, take good care of the hair that`s already on our heads and not be mislead by false claims that promise the moon. Jennifer |
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Posted By: bigbutt
Date Posted: January 02 2002 at 4:38pm
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Pregnancy helps hair to grow. Not that a person should get pregnant to grow long hair, but it is just a fact. ------------- |
Posted By: bigbutt
Date Posted: January 02 2002 at 4:38pm
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Pregnancy helps hair to grow. Not that a person should get pregnant to grow long hair, but it is just a fact. ------------- |
Posted By: Jennifer
Date Posted: January 02 2002 at 4:49pm
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Opps, I forgot! You`re absolutely right! And it`s happened to me -- more than once! It`s also very important to understand that the hormones that are responsible for hair growth during pregnancy are obviously not present post partem (after birth). I think every pregnant woman should know this because it can be very disconcerting to lose that beautifully thick mane of hair after the baby is born! Even a person whose diet and health are about as perfect as they can be will lose hair. I wish it weren`t true! Jennifer ------------- |
Posted By: Waggy
Date Posted: January 02 2002 at 9:29pm
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Rock and Roll Jennifer!! You are of course, absolutely right. But here`s the hitch - I KNOW I don`t eat maximally for my health, plus other factors come into play like personal metabolism, absorption problems, medications for certain conditions which interfer with absorption or excretion, etc. So I have to admit that while I think most of the claims are hooey for a lot of people and even if they are not they are WAY overpriced. I`m willing to give most things a limited try if I`m reasonably assured that they won`t do any harm. I have been taking extra B Vitamins and I don`t know if it will ever do anything for my hair but I do notice that after a month I have more energy and less tremors (a problem for me), so I`m going to continue to take them whether they do something for my hair or not. In terms of trying weird stuff like Viviscal (which I am for a little while); my thinking is this: I can afford 6 months worth of it, I don`t really expect anything good dramatic but I`m willing to go the just in case. I have to admit some of my willingness to try is based on other supplements which have proven very helpful to me before they were widely accepted in the US, like Glucosamine/Chondroitin - which saved and extended the butts of two of my dogs and I am convinced (as is my surgeon) enabled me to regrow major cartilage after extensive knee surgery. I have more details if anyone wants them. So to shorten the very long story - I agree with Jennifer, but I am still willing to go a long way in trying things "just in case"...waggy ------------- Be yourself - unless you suck...wags |
Posted By: dianefromcanada
Date Posted: January 02 2002 at 10:45pm
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First of all, everyone has a genetically pre-determined length to which hair will grow. How do we really know that is true Jennifer. I used to believe that same statement from my stylist years ago. I used to see him every four weeks and always complained that I couldn`t grow my hair. It was always at the same lenght. ( above my shoulders and not touching my shoulders) Joseph my stylist at the time said that my hair was too thick and didn`t grow straight down, it tends to grow sideways and down and would take forever and probably not the type to have long hair. Then he threw that same statement. Well Joseph ended up with a drinking problem and I got nervous about his drinking and his scissors and dropped him. It makes a good fourteen years that I haven`t seen Joseph and I have long hair down to my waist, so thick that I have a tough time putting a hand around a ponytail. I totally destroy hair assoceries. Nothing last on me. What was really going on was whatever growth I had that month Joseph was cutting it. My hair grows very slowly and he should have worked with me by bringing me in to have the trims but controling the amount taken off etc. Today I would have very long hair but I tend to have breakage at times. Under stressful situations I seen two inches of hair being lost at the time without any real reasons. I have seen handful of long length just falling on the floor when my husband past away etc. Today I set up my life to have hardly any real stress so my hair isn`t experiencing it. I would have beleived Joseph but having long hair today makes me wonder about that statement. Yes some people can easily chop off their hair and in no time grow it back again like the other stylist I had about two years ago. In her lifetime her hair grow to touch the floor twice and she told me to take biotin. Today she keeps it to about the middle of her back and claims that it takes no time to grow her hair as long she takes biotin. Then I have come across this secretary that had silky fine hair to her hips, choped it off and it grew to her waist in the matter of three months of so. The same with the babysitter that my younger son loves. She chopped it so that her hair would be above her ears and for her graduation in a couple of month that same girl had her hair past her shoulder. I did notice that when that stupid stylist chop off six inches of my hair it did grow quickly and it is back to it orginal lenght and my boyfriend noticed that my hair is longer. Diets probably have a lot to do with the strenght of our hair and maybe the speed of the growth and we have to take vitamins today because our food is not the same quality as our grandparents. I would never tell someone to give up because look what happen to me. I was determined and I now have long hair. Okay it took a long time but we can never give up on the idea if that is what we really want. I am going to try to grow it to knee lenght. Talk to you when I am 90 as maybe I make it lol ------------- dianefromcanada |
Posted By: Jennifer
Date Posted: January 03 2002 at 3:33am
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Diane, I think you just made my point! However, what I think you`re trying to say is not to necessarily believe someone who tells you that your hair will only grow to "X" point. We all do have that "point." However, it isn`t always easy to tell where that cut-off (sorry, bad pun...) limit is, as you so clearly demonstrated. Your stylist simply cut off all your growth, so of course it appeared that your hair wouldn`t grow past a certain point! I agree that we shouldn`t give up hope! However, if someone is doing absolutely everything he can to grow his hair and it still won`t grow past a certain point, he shouldn`t beat himself up because he`s doing something "wrong." Perhaps he is, and perhaps he`s simply reached the limit that his genetics set for him. Jennifer ------------- |
Posted By: Waggy
Date Posted: January 03 2002 at 3:42pm
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Here`s to living up to our POtential...waggy ------------- Be yourself - unless you suck...wags |
Posted By: dianefromcanada
Date Posted: January 03 2002 at 9:37pm
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I agree that we shouldn`t give up hope! However, if someone is doing absolutely everything he can to grow his hair and it still won`t grow past a certain point, he shouldn`t beat himself up because he`s doing something "wrong." Perhaps he is, and perhaps he`s simply reached the limit that his genetics set for him. ( Jennifer) I totallly agree with you Jennifer on a situation that you have presented. I am sure that you have also noticed that some people will say that they want long hair but when it comes down to commitment some people totally become discourage, won`t continue with their goal and give in easily and we hear " I cannot grow my hair". One cannot wiggle their nose and expect when they wake up that all of sudden they will have long hair. I think to have long hair is something that one really needs to want more than patience. ------------- dianefromcanada |
Posted By: Waggy
Date Posted: January 04 2002 at 4:08pm
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I think it`s often the "patience" that kills it. Once you cut it really short - it takes grit to get it to where you can stand yourself, much less actually like it. That`s one reason I`m determined to never have it shorter than can be easily put up again. If I ever have health problems or whatever, reasons to cut it short again it will be verry short, as in nothing in my face...gabi ------------- Be yourself - unless you suck...wags |
Posted By: Karen Shelton
Date Posted: January 12 2002 at 1:32am
Hey Wags, I just love your signature. Made my day. :-) Karen ------------- That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger or drives you totally insane. :-) |
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