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#43 - Alan Bauman, M.D.: The science of male and female hair restoration - how to protect, enhance, and restore the appearance and health of the hair and scalp

The Peter Attia Drive

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The Hair Follicle Cell Population, the Population of Cells Within the Hair Follicle Cell Population

Hair follicles are among the most highest metabolically active cell populations in your body. A full head of hair will produce somewhere around 1500 feet of hair a day. You're born with about 100 to 150,000 hairs on the head. And it's amazing that you could take someone who is completely bald and through very strategic placement using only 10,000 hairs, say... No, I said 10,000 grafts.

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