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But every now and then, the opportunity to interview someone I never could have predicted will present itself.
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Most recently, it wasBill Nye.
So that suggests to me that it goes all the way back to our very beginnings as humans."
“When I was in high school, it was very troubling.
I thought I was a bad person.
I thought I was a dirty, bad head-management guy,” he recalls.
But he didn’t know just how common the scalp issue is.
“It can stick with you throughout your adult years,” Dr. Thomas says.
“It can come in phases.”
Whenever it may occur, the solution is to use a dandruff shampoo containing zinc pyrithione.
“So if you useanti-dandruff shampoo, okay, that’s good.
This fungus does not enjoy eating your skin oil combined with zinc.
Doesn’t dig it,” Nye says.
But with conditioners that have that active ingredient in them, you’re not undoing it.
You’re doing it!"
“Dry scalp flakes and dandruff flakes are rooted in the same issue,” Dr. Thomas says.
So I recommend against that."
Heidi Prather,MD, a board-certified dermatologist based in Texas, agrees with the advice.
“Overtreating the scalp with oil-based hair products may exacerbate dandruff,” she previously toldAllure.
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Dr. Thomas calls it maintenance mode.
Nye sees it more like staying ahead of the “competition” the fungus.
“That fungus is everywhere.
The fungus is always around.
It’s always in the air.
It will always find a way to your head,” he says.
“What you want to do is make it so your head is not inviting.”
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