Norbert Schoerner
After one week of drinking chlorophyll to treat her spots, TikTok user @Ellietaylor929 saw marked results, and documented them â garnering a cool 3.3 million likes in the process. She is but one of the platformâs users creating #chlorophyll content, a hashtag that has racked up over 250 million views and counting. About as green and healthy-looking as a liquid gets â and thatâs even compared to celery juice â sales of the liquid supplement rose by 500 per cent in one week at e-commerce site Victoria Health. Which suggests that, just maybe, those Gen-Zers are onto something.
âChlorophyll is the green pigment that gives leaves, seaweed, algae and vegetables their green colour,â explains Shabir Daya, pharmacist and co-founder of Victoria Health. âIt absorbs sunlight and changes it into energy via photosynthesis. At a molecular level, it is almost identical to haemoglobin, the oxygen carrier in our blood. Some people refer to it
There s a large glass jar sitting on my desk, gradually filling up with my hair. It has been coming out in alarming clumps for weeks and whenever I use a brush or pull my fingers across my scalp, a good 30 or so more strands come away.
My hairdresser estimates I’ve shed a good quarter of my hair in this short period.
My GP told me that hair loss is increasingly common around three months after contracting Covid. Having had the virus myself at the end of last year, that fits.
Apparently, the shock of serious illness on the body it can happen after major surgery or high fevers too can interrupt your hair’s natural cycle of growth and renewal.