Growth

Tips and guides for growing and maintaining healthy hair, including diet, lifestyle changes, and effective techniques.

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Blood Circulation for Hair

Growth

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Did you know your scalp boasts the highest blood circulation in your body? It’s no wonder there’s a crucial relationship between blood flow and hair growth. In this article, we’ll...

Hair Loss from Radiation

Causes

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Killing a bit of hair to kill (or control) a malignant tumour seems like a fair trade. But that doesn’t make the prospect of hair loss any easier to deal...

Hair Falling in Clumps?

Causes

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When you pull your hair and it falls out easily, clumps coming away from the scalp, the default reaction is panic. That’s completely normal but probably not necessary. In most...

Vitamins for Healthy Hair

Growth

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Our hair follicles are busy bees. As highly active parts of our body, they need nutrients to produce healthy hair. These nutrients include a range of vitamins that help grow...

Castor Oil for Growth

Science

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For decades, people have sung about the benefits of castor oil for hair growth and hair thickening. But at The Hairy Pill®, we like to maintain some healthy scepticism. So...

Malnutrition & Hair Loss

Causes

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Malnutrition happens when your body doesn’t get the nutrients and energy it needs to thrive. Maybe you’re not eating enough. Or you might have an illness that’s preventing your body...

Is My Hair Thinning?

Science

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A bad hair day isn’t fun but it’s manageable. Multiple bad hair days in a row? Now that might get you thinking. Is your hair just having an off moment?...

Keto & Hair Loss

Lifestyle

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Many people around the world have sworn by the low-carb, high-fat keto diet. It’s been so popular that you might be asking: what’s the catch? Sure, you might shed some...

Weather Impact on Hair

Lifestyle

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We hear it all the time. People come to us throughout the year swearing that they lose more hair in winter, that hair grows faster in hot weather, that humidity...

Home Remedies for Hair

Growth

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Say one word to your family and friends about wanting to grow and thicken your hair and chances are they’ll swear by their own home remedy. Home remedies for hair...

A Guide to Curly Hair

Growth

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Curly hair can be a handful but once you’ve found the right routine, it’s much easier than you think to get healthy curly hair — and keep it. In this...

Best Foods for Hair Growth

Growth

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When it comes to hair, diet does matter. Your hair follicles need nutrients to grow healthy hair. So making sure you’re eating a nutritional diet is a good place to...

Hair Growth Cycles

Science

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For decades, a group of scientists have been asking one simple question: How does hair grow?  The answer, they’ve discovered, isn’t straightforward. But while there’s plenty of research still to...

Changes for Healthy Hair

Lifestyle

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We all want thick and healthy hair but there’s no need to try the latest viral hacks to get those luscious locks and superstar volume. Let’s put the old wives’...

A Guide to Hair Growth

Growth

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Fed up with limp, frizzy, split-ended, or barely-there hair? Finding the right routine to have strong and healthy locks can feel like an uphill battle. And even when you do...

Hair & Vitamin Deficiency

Causes

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As one of the most metabolically active parts of our body, our hair follicles can be a good indication of what’s going on inside us. Our follicles need nutrients to...

Weak Hair

Treatment

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Let’s talk about weak hair. We know this topic is about as fun as watching your hair dry but talking about it may actually help you beat the brittle, frizzy...

Hair Loss from Cancer

Causes

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Hair loss and cancer — or rather, cancer treatments — often go hand in hand. After all, hair loss is a recognisable side effect of cancer therapies like chemotherapy and...

Anagen Effluvium & Hair

Causes

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Anagen effluvium is a type of hair loss that can result in total (or near total) balding. It’s commonly caused by cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation but it’s usually...

Vitamins for Healthy Hair

Science

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We barely give a thought to our hair until we start losing it. Only then do we start wanting to know: how does hair grow? And how can we keep...

A Guide to Shedding

Treatment

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Everybody loses hair. Yep, even George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston. Hair shedding is so routine that we all lose about 50-200 strands of hair a day. So are hair shedding...

Hair Growth Medication

Treatment

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Effective hair growth medications aren’t about gimmicky elixirs that promise luscious locks or a full head of hair overnight. No, the best medication for hair loss targets the root of...

Telogen Effluvium & Hair

Causes

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When Deb Jones began suddenly losing handfuls of her thick hair after each wash, she couldn’t believe it. Her hair grew so thin that she hid it beneath hats and thought she...

Hair Loss Supplements

Treatment

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Walk into any pharmacy and you’ll find shelves stocked with bottles of hair growth supplements promising a healthy head of hair. It’s natural to wonder if it’s really that easy....

Dandruff & Hair Loss

Causes

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Dandruff can be a distressing condition for anybody. For some people, it’s up there with hair loss — which makes it especially disconcerting when people start connecting hair loss to...

COVID-19 & Hair Loss

Causes

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A study by the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology has recently uncovered an interesting discovery relating to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. It seems that hair loss and COVID-19 symptoms might very...

Patient Hair Loss Journey

Lifestyle

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Losing your hair in your 20’s or 30’s (or even 40’s+) leaves you with a fairly horrendous range of choices that I faced about 18 months ago. I could live...