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Hair Variation, What’s Her Story? (ICYMI) with Dr. Tina Lasisi

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Curly Hair

So what is hair specifically, like human scalp hair? Like is it really it's all of our dead cells, right? Or is that also? Oh my God, look at the worry in your face. No, I'm not going to take that away from you, baby. It is not alive. So it is a protein filament. And it extrudes from your hair follicles. The cuticle and the core attack is real, right? It's real. You're safe there. But it's keratin and it extrudes, it gets pushed out and up. That's how hair grows. Those carrots and cells are dried out they're they're dead. They're not

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