Normal Hair Cycle

The hair on our head is considered as one of the easily perceived markers of good health. The normal hair growth cycle runs from 2 to 6 years. The strands are evenly distributed from the resting hair, those which are considered as fully frown, and the growing strands. Around 10 percent of your hair is already in a testing phase. After two or three months, the resting hair falls out, and allows new hair strands to grow in its place. About 90 percent of your hair is growing at any one time. Each strand grows one centimeter every month.

With good nutrition, an approximation of one meter, or 39 inches of hair would take around 84 months, or about 7 years to grow. Each follicle may grow up to twenty individual years in your lifetime.

Hair fall is normal, and part of the cycle. An average of a hundred strands a day is shed by a person. However, there are also some who experience excessive hair loss. This is called alopecia or baldness, and can affect people of all ages.