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The Shocking White Hair

Curious Cases

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The Hair Follicle Is a Dead Thing

People often say to me, ell, hair is dead. You know why we excited about this? It's a dead thing. Whele the shaft or the hair fibre that we see emerging from he calp is obviously not a living thing. But it's being produced under the skin by an absolute power house, the dermal prapilla. Is an incredibly bioactive process which needs a lot of energy. So these factors are relevant both for the growth of the hair and for th pigmentation. And there's enormous variation in hair texture and color and density all over the world,. peopled with different ethnicities.

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