Philip Kingsley Trichology, explains. The anagen phase, also known as the active or growth phase, is when new hair is formed at the root and grows around half an inch a month.
The catagen phase is a short transitional phase that signals the end of active hair growth and lasts approximately 10 days, before the telogen phase, a resting period when strands remain in their follicles for around 100 days.
What follows is the exogen phase, when individual hairs are released from their follicles and fall out… before the whole process begins again.‘We shed around 100 hairs a day, which you will find in your brush or when you wash your hair in the shower.
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