Feeling Bad About … Your Hair?
The New York Times
Here, answers to some pressing questions about what’s going on with your hair and what treatments may be worth trying.
Even as some women embrace their naturally silvering tresses — consider Miranda, in the “Sex and the City” reboot, who abandons her trademark red in favor of a sleek gray bob — laissez-faire attitude isn’t likely to extend to other changes women see in their hair as they get older.
Most people expect their hair to turn gray, but hair actually goes through myriad changes as we age, becoming less dense and more unruly, brittle and harder to grow long.
“Thick, shiny hair is a hallmark of youth,” said Dr. Erika Schwartz, an integrative medicine doctor who founded Evolved Science, a functional longevity practice in Manhattan that provides a variety of treatments to deal with thinning and lackluster locks. “Like everything else in aging, your hair suffers the consequences.”
