# Replacement for normal hair loss

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacement-for-normal-hair-loss/476245>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 8, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacement-for-normal-hair-loss/476245 "2008-12-08T15:13:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacement-for-normal-hair-loss/476245/1 "2008-12-08T15:13:50Z")

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While I was waiting to get my hair cut the other day, I was listening to another stylist chatting with her client about hair loss. The stylist said that losing about 100 hairs a day is completely normal and healthy. Okay, this is fine, as an “everyone knows” sort of fact (whether 100 is the actual number or not). **pause, think, pick a random hair off the keyboard**

To keep hair at its normal amount of fullness (whatever that amount might be for a particular person), we must also have about 100 hairs a day starting their growth cycles to replace the lost hairs. So – 100 hairs started Saturday, 100 more Sunday, 100 more will start today, another 100 tomorrow …

Why isn’t our hair a weird hodgepodge of lengths?

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**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacement-for-normal-hair-loss/476245/2 "2008-12-08T15:47:16Z")

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It is already many different lengths, thicknesses and is full of inconsistencies. Fine hair here, thicker there, denser here, etc.

You either got a false premise going or you’re begging the question…haha, I forget how each works! I’m on Flexeril for back injury…so I aint too sharp today!

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacement-for-normal-hair-loss/476245/3 "2008-12-08T15:58:44Z")

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Most of my hair is shoulder length. Where is the shorter stuff?

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacement-for-normal-hair-loss/476245/4 "2008-12-08T16:13:17Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> Most of my hair is shoulder length. Where is the shorter stuff?

In the part not covered by “most”?