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Researchers found the molecule cortisol uses to stop your hair from growing. It is not what anyone expected.

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From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. The relationship between stress and hair loss has been documented for centuries. The mechanism has been described in increasingly specific terms over recent decades — cortisol activates the HPA axis, pushes follicles into premature telogen, disrupts the hair growth cycle, accumulates in the hair shaft as a biological record of chronic stress. This much was established. What was not established — u... Read the full article: https://laritelleorganic.com/blogs/news/researchers-found-the-molecule-cortisol-uses-to-stop-your-hair-from-growing-it-is-not-what-anyone-expected

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