thinstinks said:
if you shed a hair, how long does it take to grow back???
also, does MSM (like 3000 mgxday) and minoxidil make your hair grow much much quicker????????????
Generally speaking, and the emphasis put on generally, here is how the hair cycle works. A hair reaches the end of its growth cycle. The follicle will rest for about 3 months before beginning production on a new hair shaft... BUT, the follicle still holds onto the old hair for an indeterminate period of time, lets say for argument's sake, a month or so.
This would mean that the follicle would have a dead hair in it for a month, then be bare for two months, then a new hair starts growing. This hair has to grow beyond the end of the follicle shaft before even being seen. Let's say for argument's sake that this takes a month.
Then, depending on the length of the other hair on your head, it might take 2 or 3 months for this hair to reach a length where it even becomes cosmetically significant. And even then, the tip of a new hair is thinner than a hair shaft that is several months into its growth phase. Taking this into account, it might be an additional month or two for the hair to be both the appropriate length AND width to cosmetically add to your styling.
Summing this all up, my estimation would be 5 to 6 months for a shed hair to be cosmetically replaced by a new hair. And this is assuming that any regrowth treatment was began at the exact same time the particular follicle in question was getting ready to shed... for a full head of hair to be totally cycled through, shed, rested, regrown, and 'positively affected' by a treatment such as minoxidil might take 2 to 3 years.
