071 - Tips & Best Practices for Ensuring Your Hair Maintains Enough Moisture

Dr. Brian's Health Show

Episode Summary Welcome to The Dr. Brian’s Health Show, a weekly podcast where Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler uses his decades of experience in medicine and ability as an expert researcher to provide a light-hearted approach and share health trends popular on TikTok. In this episode, Dr. Brian provides his Cap/No Cap analysis on today’s topic: Hair Porosity: Tips & Best Practices for Ensuring Your Hair Maintains Enough Moisture. What is Hair Porosity? What’s the difference between high, medium, and low hair porosity? How can you check if your hair maintains enough moisture? Find out in today’s episode! If you’re enjoying the show, we’d love it if you leave the show a Rating & Review at RateThisPodcast.com/NoCap. Key Takeaways 01:06 – Dr. Brian introduces today’s topic: Hair Porosity: Tips & Best Practices for Ensuring Your Hair Maintains Enough Moisture 02:27 – What is Hair Porosity? 04:57 – The difference between high and low hair porosity 06:12 – Helpful tips for managing low, medium and high hair porosity 09:18 – Dr. Brian provides the Cap/No Cap Recap of today’s episode 10:18 – Dr. Brian makes an exciting announcement about his upcoming book at https://www.influencedsocialmedia.com 12:10 – Dr. Brian teases next week’s topic and reminds listeners to Subscribe, Rate and Review this podcast on RateThisPodcast.com/NoCap Tweetable Quotes “So, let’s just first even talk about the anatomy. Let’s do a little autopsy on hair. You pluck out your hair; that poor hair follicle is dead. So, we’re gonna do a little autopsy now - a little hair follicle autopsy.” (02:45) (Dr. Brian) “The whole concept of porosity has to do with how much moisture your hair can absorb and retain. So if it’s low porosity, it means that your hair physically cannot get moisture in it.” (03:08) (Dr. Brian) “You can’t necessarily change your porosity. It’s usually due to genetics. But, I think it’s a good idea to test your hair just to see because there are certain things you can do to manage your hair based on if you have high, medium, or low porosity.” (05:55) (Dr. Brian) “There’s certain things you can do, real quick, for low porosity hair. Apply protein-free conditioners when your hair is already wet. Look for glycerin and honey in products like shampoos or conditioners and apply heat to help absorb the moisture.” (09:33) (Dr. Brian) Resources Mentioned NCHS Links Mentioned NCHS Footer Powered by FullCast