Interesting Facts About Hair And Hair Loss

Hair loss is related to the tendency of hair follicles to stop producing hair growth. Partial or complete loss of hair is called alopecia. Hair loss usually develops gradually and may be patchy or diffuse.
Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow.
The average scalp contains about 100,000 hairs.
Roughly 100 hairs are lost from your head every day.
Each individual hair survives for an average of 4 - 7 years, during which time it grows about half an inch a month.
You need to lose about 50% of your hair before hair loss becomes noticeable.
In the United States, 30 million women experience hereditary hair loss. 70% of women with thinning hair can attribute it to hereditary hair loss.
Hereditary hair loss or androgenetic alopecia is the most common form of hair loss for men, representing more than 95% of all male cases.
Androgenetic alopecia affects many more men than women. About two-thirds of men experience some degree of appreciable hair loss by the time they are 35 years old, and about 85% have significantly thinning hair by age 50.
In the United States, there has not been an elected bald President since the television age began.