Our hair

Hair can tell about a person very much, for example, where he was born and about bad habits and predict human disease.





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The coat of human density per square centimeter is virtually no different from the "clothing" of chimpanzees. "If you take a magnifying glass and look at your body, you will find a lot of subtle pale hairs - explains dermatologist from Washington, Dr. Eric Kamorski - which is why create a visual illusion that our skin is clean. Meanwhile, the calculation shows that we are hairy, as primates ».

With regard to visible hair on the head, the highest density are blondes and blondes - an average of 146,000, followed by burning brunettes and brunettes - approximately 110,000, followed by people with brown hair, with an average of less than one hundred thousand strands.

However, these estimates are very approximate, since the same genetic basis people can reside in different conditions, which in turn, influence the rate of hair loss.

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The natural color of the strands is dependent on the melanin (pigment) contained in the hair. It occurs in two types - a eumelanin and pheomelanin. Is dominant eumelanin. Thanks to him, people have dark hair from light brown to bluish black. If very little eumelanin, the curls are bright, and their owners are called blond.
Pheomelanin dominates the red hair and is rare. The publications of the format conspiracy theories redheads considered to hybrid humanoids who came into our world from the outside, to rule mankind. The authors of these articles refer to the fact that the percentage of "red" is very small, about 3%, but they occupy key positions in politics and economics.

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Light tone hair usually occurs in English, German, Polish, Russian and Swedish, ie the representatives of the European race. And in Africa in general and in the southern hemisphere to meet Aboriginal fair-haired people is almost impossible. Exceptions are natives of New Guinea and the inhabitants of some islands of the Pacific Ocean.
Curly hair straw-colored reddish they are related to another gene than the Europeans. More precisely it is a genetic mutation that affects the pattern of amino acids. Such people say that they are subject to rufos syndrome and are albinos. And their eyes were not blue, and brown.

Gray decoration

People over the years sedeet. It is considered that this is due to old age or experience. Meanwhile, the main cause of the accumulation of gray hydrogen peroxide due to wear and loosening of the hair follicle pigmentation. Red hair with age, tend to acquire a sandy color, and then quickly turn white.

Many peoples gray hair associated with life experience. That is why in the Victorian era young English women wore jewelry made of gray hair of the dead mothers and grandmothers, "in order to protect against stupidity and naivete».

Hair color in terms of doctors

It is believed that blondes are perceived by the majority of men more attractive. And the truth in this present, as the fair-haired women have higher estrogen levels than others of the fair sex. At the same time, compared with blond or red haired brunette more susceptible to macular degeneration, vision leading to shock. That is why they often wear glasses.

In turn, the red-haired women are less sensitive to pain medication. Thus, British Dental Research, published in British Medical Journal, shows that they require anesthesia to 20% more drugs. As for brunettes, then they are more prone to neoplastic diseases - non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Furthermore, their liver metabolises more efficiently nicotine among them so often encountered need to smoke.