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Know Your Hair Growth Cycle

It is known that each hair on our scalps grows at a rate of about 0.3 - 0.4 mm/day or about 6 inches per year and it is not uncommon for hair to be shed off or die out as new hair replaces it. Hair growth and death is totally random and neither seasonal nor cyclic.

But having said that, each normal hair undergoes a growth cycle at any time and be disrupted or induced at anytime as well.

These are anagen (growth phase), catagen (transitional phase) and telogen (resting phase).

Anagen Phase

This is the active stage when hair grows and account for 80% to 90% of your hair population on the scalp. The cells at the root multiply rapidly to produce the material keratin that forms the hair shaft.

As the hair follicle starts to push up the hair club through the scalp pores, new keratin cells get formed. But once formed, these keratinous shaft essentially die as hair strands are basically dead cells, only the root part is alive.

It is during this stage that hair grows about 1 cm every 28 days or about half an inch per month and stays in these phase for about 2-7 years. The longer the hair strand gets, a simple math will show that the longer the growth phase will be. Some people have longer growth phases accounting for their longer hairs while some can’t sustain beyond a certain length.

Hair on the eyebrows, eyelashes, arms and underarms, legs, groin and other parts of the body are short and can only grow so far as they have significantly shorter growth phases lasting from a month to less than 2 months. Hair loss happens when its active growth span is disrupted either by medication, as in chemotherapy, by autoimmune diseases like Alopecia Areata or by the action of DHT binding to the follicles.

Catagen Phase/ Transition Phase (Degeneration Stage)

This is the transitional stage before going into Telogen and about 3% to 5% of the hair population in your scalp is in this stage at any time. Lasting 2-3 weeks or more, growth stops and the hair follicle shrinks to 1/6 of its normal size, hair bulb ceases production of your hair color pigmentation and the hair club is pushed upwards to the surface.

Telogen Phase

This is the resting phase and about 10-15% of all hairs are in this stage at any given time. It lasts about 50-100 days before the telogen hairs on the scalp shed off and a lot longer for hairs on the eyelash, eyebrow, arms, legs and other body parts. During this time hair follicle is totally at rest with the club hair fully formed and eventually pushes the old hair off its roots so it sheds and falls off.

Hair Falls Out Growth Stage

This is the time when about 25-100 telogen hair strands are normally shed each day, usually at a higher volume in the autumn and winter months. It is also at this time when telogen effluvium can happen or around 2 months after child birth, a traumatic operation, sudden weight loss or medication.

After the Telogen phase, the growth cycle is complete and the hair goes back into the Anagen phase with the new hair club forming new keratin material for a growing hair.

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