Smart people, do you know the answer to this?
The hair are basically dead cells. How comes when you have a better diet they look better then? And not just from the base but the whole hair length?
Today I was talking to some people, you know, some homeopath-tarots kind of folk.
One of them said that hair are alive like branches, I said well actually it's just dead cells, and I've been asked this
@arteteco Another theory: when you have a better diet, you're more likely to take better care of yourself in general, and therefore you take better care of your hair, causing your hair to look better.
@Formermediocremale @Fullycaffeinated @arteteco Great point. I think drugs are only found in the part of the hair from the time you did them though. Eg if you stopped marijuana 6 months ago and your hair doubled in length since then, you could trim your hair to half length and it test negative for THC.
@Formermediocremale
I checked online, seems like how
@alex says that it's starting in the follicle, that means that once it's in the bloodstream and more hair is produced you can find traces there. You won't find residues of a few days ago substance intake a few cm off the scap
https://www.thecannabist.co/2017/02/21/hair-drug-testing-marijuana-drug-test/73172/
@alex Yeah I also was quite skeptical about it, but they were ladies with long hair energetically advocating for it, I am just a short haired dude so I was like "oh... well alright, I guess"
@hwashington22
This was the only answer I could give, but I'm not sure those oils and stuff would get down to a 30 cms hair... maybe yes? Wouldn't know
@arteteco
1) Diet is a long-term trend.
2) The short term stuff is oils
Would you rather have a master brick-layer build your wall, or some drunk who can’t put three bricks in a straight line?
@billstclair What? Sorry I may be missing something, what do you mean?
Too metaphoric I guess. The hair is the wall. The hair follicle is on a scale between master bricklayer and drunk, depending on your health.
@arteteco My guess is this: your hair doesn't look better when you have a better diet. If it does, it's a placebo effect. I'd test that first.