Hair

[andrewlee]

My question disappeared!    Why do we get more nose and ear hair as we get older?

[Hippy]

There seems to be a tendency for our bodies to develop as we grow, and become attractive, trim and neat from about late teens to thirty-ish.

 

The next stage is a thickening of waistline, podgy bits, wrinkles, loss of hair pigment, reduction in joint and spine flexibility, loss of visual acuity, reduction of memory recall, increased resistance to learning, reduction in muscle mass, slowing of thought and action, decrease in perceived amplitude and frequency range of hearing, and when I was young all this was fields.

 

In the headlong dash from pretty young thing to bus pass wrinkly we mutate and I think the least of the worries is fuse wire protruding from nose and ears. After years of reproducing themselves, cells in our bodies accumulate genetic mistakes and eventually it all gets too much and the organism as a whole gives up. Humans hasten the process by indulgence in poison including tobacco, alcohol and other harmful drugs.

 

[KEJ2000]

I don't know that we necessarily get more of it; I think it simply becomes coarser, like the hair on our heads-- starts off as "baby-fine" as infants and becomes progressively more coarse as we age.  It becomes more noticable than when it was fine-textured.  Similarly, the hair on lads' legs becomes more coarse as they progress through puberty and develop into men.  It must have to do with the hormones, either increased production of male hormones or decreased relative production of female hormones, leading to coarsening hair at puberty and then menopause and "male menopause".

[andrewlee]

Oh Hippy, now I'm depressed!   Wish I'd never asked!

[undercovers]

so my years of alcohol, tobacco, and drug abuse are to blame for my exsessive nasal hair... oh well - pass the pipe lets get some ear hair on the go

[KEJ2000]

It can't all be due to tobacco and alcohol use, because I knew a man (47 years old) who was abstemious and still had tons of nose hair.  It must have something more to do with genetics, and possibly also ethnicity; he was of German descent.  So all smokers and drinkers need not get depressed!

[Yinzer]

Head hairs were feeling adventurous, went for a stroll around the body, and got lost - ended up in all sorts of strange places!