how do i promote my hair growth?

Question

it suprises me how everyone in my family has long hair but me,what products should i use to help my hair grow more and what should i continue to do to make it longer?reasonable answers please...!!!

Answer 1

to get your hair as healthy as possible you have to be healthy on the inside. Eating a healthy diet, getting the nutrients you need, is key. If your hair is damaged and you're trying to let it grow, forget it. Get rid of all the damaged hair before you try to let it grow out. splits ends will continue to split and although your hair will still be growing....it'll be breaking off just as fast. Depending on your hair type you have it trimmed between 8-10 weeks. if you have cut more often you'll be cutting all the growth off. Most people's hair grows about a half inch a month. Finer hair needs to be cut more often. Then there's genetics...some people just aren't lucky in the hair department.

Answer 2

I was doing some reseach today on the "cutting your hair more often causes it to grow faster" idea.

I'm posting it here because I see that several others have posted that cutting your hair more often might cause it to grow faster.

It logically just doesn't make sense that your cut hair it will grow faster since it's a dead cell not directly connected to the living cell (meaning the ends of your hair).

Here is one article that describes that cutting your hair does not cause your hair to grow faster. Actually, the *only* thing that I saw that stimulated hair growth was certain vitamins and/or minerals. Perhaps you might be lacking in some of those?

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RE: Does cutting hair, or shaving a beard, make it grow faster? If so, why?

Date: Mon Mar 2 14:08:09 1998
Posted By: Carolyn Pettibone, grad student, Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 888004433.Me
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Message:


Hi!
I love your question, because it is something I have always wondered about, but never bothered to look up before. It does seem amazing that the root of a hair could know what was happening as much as 3 feet away! And since our hair, like the surface of our skin, is technically dead, the statement that cutting or shaving hair stimulates it to grow is even more perplexing.

It turns out that this is a very widespread myth, and there is absolutely no scientific evidence to back it up. I went and did some research on the subject, and found a few papers that tried to test the idea. They were pretty funny to read. The scientists conducting them had to recruit their friends to do different shaving experiments, mostly on arms, legs, or heads. They would measure the weight of hair shaved after allowing it to grow for several days, and they tried to see if more frequent shaving made the hair grow faster. But in each experiment, the scientists found that the hair didn't grow any faster no matter how often it was shaved.

Hairs grow to a specific length, and then they just stop. That's why your eyebrows don't grow down over your eyelids! That's also why you might notice that a friend of yours has really long hair, and no matter how long you wait, yours won't grow any longer. The hair on each person's head, and in a man's beard, are programmed to grow for a certain amount of time and then it stops and stays there for a while before falling out. If you happen to cut it while it is in the growing phase, it will keep growing, and that might make you think that by cutting it, it was stimulated to
grow. But it would have kept growing no matter what you did -- unless of course you plucked it out!

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Also -- understanding how your hair grows can also help you to understand why your hair is the way it is.

The hair growth cycle
Our bodies contain all the hair follicles we’ll ever have from the very day we are born. Although over time, some may change in size, often due to hereditary hair loss, new hair follicles do not develop. As adults, we have about 100,000 individual strands of hair. Losing around 100 of them every day is completely normal and is simply the result of the natural hair growth cycle, similar to an 'on-off' system. This means that when an old hair ‘dies’, the growing phase starts again for a new hair to replace it. The hair growth cycle has three different phases:

The 3 phases of the hair growth process

Anagen The growing phase, lasting approximately 1,000 days

Catagen Hair stops growing

Telogen Resting phase

Phase 1 – Anagen
The anagen phase is the growing, or the ‘on’ phase. In humans, this lasts for approximately 1,000 days, but can range from 2 to 6 years. During the anagen phase, hair cells grow rapidly, producing the hair shaft from the follicle, which itself grows deeper into the scalp. The length of your anagen phase determines the maximum length of your hair. So, the longer your anagen phase, the longer your hair will grow.

Phase 2 – Catagen
The catagen phase only lasts for one to two weeks. It is the transitional or regressive phase. Essentially, it is when the hair stops growing. During this period, the hair follicle shrinks and part of it starts to die.

Phase 3 – Telogen
The telogen phase is the final resting stage, or ‘off’ phase.
When the old hair is in this phase, the hair follicle becomes active again and a new hair in the anagen phase develops, forcing the old telogen hair out. This is when you might notice hairs in the bath or in your brush or comb.

At any one time, around 90% of most people's hair follicles are in the ‘growing’ anagen phase and approximately 10% are in the ‘resting’, or telogen, phase.

Thinning hair and the hair growth cycle
Once you understand how your hair grows, you can start to understand why, for many women, it also stops growing. Lack of growth causes the overall effect of thinning on the scalp. Noticeable hair thinning is usually caused by a short anagen phase and a particularly long telogen phase, which eventually leads to the hair follicles shutting down completely and the ending of their growth cycle. Women who experience thinning hair also have follicles which shrink due to changes in hormone levels, resulting in finer, barely visible hairs.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I know that when I was pregnant, my hair and nails grew like crazy and everybody said it was because of the prenatal vitamins. I know mine were prescription but there are ones you can buy over the counter. Also my mom used to tell me that eating Jell-o would help with hair growth. I have also thought that massaging your scalp regularly might stimulate hair growth. Hope any of this helps--good luck!!

Answer 5

My aunts were all hair dressers and they always said,Use a comb for wet hair and a brush for dry hair. To get it to grow brush at least 100 strokes a day with a brush, Use good shampoos and conditioners.

Answer 6

try to lay off the hair products and use natural oils once in a while, dont brush to often, dont use wet brushes go for wet combs n dont always hair dry a good towel is way better

Answer 7

Take Biotin supplements. I take 5000 mcgs a day. You can find it in the vitamin isle at Walmart. Take it everyday. It will take a couple of months but you will see a difference. It makes your nails grow too.

Answer 8

Wash it regularly and use a good rinse . Trim the ends once every 6-8 weeks .

Answer 9

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Answer 10

dunno any products to make yr hair grow longer. But there's a product that helps people who are balding .. try Regaine with 5% minoxidil and let me kno after 6 months pls ....