41. Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow? Part Two.

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Go back, go back, go back if you haven’t already listened to Part one of Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow? this conversation will make way more sense after you’ve listened to that one :)

Episode Resources (for episodes 40 and 41):

Hopefully, the fact that you’re reading this means you’re hungry for even more hair stuff so let’s start with a nice, gentle article full of fun and interesting hair-related facts.

 Want to make sure you’ve understood the basics of hair growth, then take a look at this article.

For a broad overview of the different types of hair loss, this article is a good place to start.

Age-related hair loss does differ a little between the sexes so check out these discussions of male-pattern and female-pattern baldness:

When it comes to hair loss, just how much can you blame your genes? Check out these discussions of the AR gene (that one from your mother’s father!), genes from your hair-challenged father plus a whole host of other genes.

Telogen effluvium, remind me what that was again?

And is it really true that stress makes our hair fall out?

How do finasteride and minoxidil work?

Thinking about coloring your hair? Here’s the basics of how it works as well as some of that scary cancer stuff.