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Nutrafol made my hair grow 3 inches in 3 months — faster than anything else I've tried
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. My hair makes me feel beautiful. But like most women, I crave change. Unlike most women, though, I tend to overhaul my look every six months, color, style, bangs, no bangs, you name it. Each transformation marks a shift in my life: a breakup, a new job, a personal win, or picking myself up after a loss. Trust me, I've used every excuse in the book to reinvent my hair. A couple of years ago, I chopped it all off in a moment of inspiration on a fashion shoot and rocked the short look for two years until a few months back. I woke up and felt…naked. I missed my hair. Since then, I've tried everything, from drugstore serums with cult followings to gummies like Vegamour, which I didn't love. Nutrafol stood out because its daily supplements come in easy-to-swallow, tasteless capsules. But if you're not into the price point, which can be steep for some, we found a few other hair growth supplements that experts recommend. Although, spoiler alert: I won't be switching anytime soon. Emma Sutton-Williams About Nutrafol Nutrafol is one of the most recognized names in the hair health world, with targeted supplements for men and women, including women going through postpartum recovery. I tested the Nutrafol Women's Vegan formula, which is designed for women ages 18–44 who follow plant-based diets or avoid animal products. There is also a special 45+ formula. Nutrafol Pros: During testing, I noticed it improved my hair quality in terms of the strength and speed of growth I noticed the growth of baby hair NSF (Nutrafol Hair Growth Nutraceutical) Contents Certified Subscription can be cancelled at any time Free of artificial flavoring Vegan and non-vegan options Cons: I find this to be one of the more expensive options on the market, but it does deliver great results Nutrafol side effects: May not be for you if you're sensitive to adaptogens or herbal supplements For those who struggle with hair thinning, Nutrafol ingredients include ashwagandha extract, which, according to studies, helps balance stress hormones like cortisol, a major hair-thinning culprit. Turmeric is also a key ingredient that helps manage inflammation, which can damage hair follicles. To begin, you'll take a quiz to find the best Nutrafol option for you. I fit between the ages of 18 and 44, but only just. Aging isn't fun, but these supplements do help you do it gracefully. You must commit to taking 4 capsules daily, ideally with a meal, but I made it just fine on an empty stomach. In part because I take it with medications that can't be mixed with food, so I take it all on one fell swoop, so I don't miss a day from my routine. What can you expect, according to the brand? Months 1–3: Fuller, healthier-looking hair with reduced shedding and improved sleep Months 4–6: Noticeably thicker, faster-growing, and stronger hair Month 7+: Continued support for the root causes of thinning and maintenance of hair growth results I noticed overall stronger hair with faster growth and less shedding in the shower. My Nutrafol for Women Review These are my Nutrafol before and after shots with three months of growth in between. The before and after of my hair still shocks me. Emma Sutton-Williams First of all, most supplements make me nauseous or worse, I have this awful reflex where I end up vomiting them right back up. Thankfully, I didn't have that reaction to these magical capsules. I'm a morning person, so I take them first thing alongside my routine medications for Hashimoto's disease and a few other health issues I manage. I went in hoping for the best but kept my expectations low, because let's be honest, hair grows no matter what, right? Wrong. My hair tends to stop growing past a certain point, so it needs a little extra TLC to push past that plateau. And even if your hair can grow, it still needs to look healthy, polished, and full. After a few weeks, I saw my hair transform into something much healthier than the brittle, bleached blonde streaks I was used to. It felt thicker, stronger, and I noticed new baby hairs sprouting at the roots. The strands didn't snap or shed as easily, and I was surprised at how fast my strands grew. How does Nutrafol compare to competitors? I tested a few competitors along the way. First up was the Biotin Hair Growth Serum Oil; it fit my budget at under $20, but unfortunately, it didn't deliver. I applied it daily, massaging it into my scalp, but I saw no noticeable difference in growth or thickness. Next, I tried Prose shampoo, conditioner, and hair mask for three months. While I didn't notice a boost in growth, I did see an improvement in my overall hair health. My strands felt stronger and more resilient, which was a nice win. And then there was Vegamour. This is truly an apples-to-oranges comparison because I gave their gummies a try, but couldn't stand the sugar content, and the texture didn't help either. They stuck in my teeth and hardened over time, just sitting in the cupboard. I've seen Vegamour offer capsules, which I haven't tried yet, but I may consider testing them in a side-by-side comparison with Nutrafol in the future. Is Nutrafol safe? Yes. Nutrafol's formulas are science-backed and loaded with ingredients you've probably heard about in wellness circles, but with clinical support behind the dosages and delivery. How much is Nutrfol? Nutrafol is $79/month with free benefits for one-and three-month subscriptions. If you choose to order every month, you'll receive perks such as wellness coaching with a naturopathic doctor, hair mineral analysis testing, and a Headspace subscription. Is there a Nutrafol discount code? Not exactly, but if you return it, the company will offer a 50% off refund, though you're not likely to want to return it if you see results. Is Nutrafol worth it? Yes, and I'm officially a long-term customer who plans to have long hair by Christmas. I've had such success that I recently added the Nutrafol hair serum, Nutrafol shampoo, and conditioner to my routine to keep the momentum going and give my scalp the full treatment it deserves. I haven't found another supplement that actually competes with my Nutrafol results — yet. Overall, I found this product to work wonders for my hair health and highly recommend it to anyone who wants healthy, long strands in just a few months. The shampoo and conditioner I can no longer live without! Emma Sutton-Williams How We Tested Emma Sutton-Williams I took Nutrafol Women's Vegan daily for three months, 4 capsules a day, as directed. I paid close attention to how my hair felt and behaved: Was it still brittle? Did it hold up better during brushing? Was there less fallout in the shower? Over time, I noticed a marked difference, not just in strength and smoothness, but also in how much faster it grew compared to my usual slow growth cycle without supplements. The change wasn't overnight, but it was steady, visible, and very encouraging. FAQ Does Nutrafol work? Yes, but only if you're ready to commit time and money. Nutrafol isn't an overnight miracle fix. But with patience and consistency, it gave me stronger, fuller, visibly healthier hair. I also appreciated the side benefits: clearer skin, better stress management, and less anxiety around my thinning hair. If you're looking for a comprehensive, research-backed hair growth system that goes beyond surface-level solutions, Nutrafol is absolutely worth considering. Who is Nutrafol best for? If you're noticing stress-related shedding, postpartum thinning, or a receding hairline that's new (and stressful), Nutrafol might be your match. I'd call it the best vegan hair growth supplement I've tested — and I've tested a few. It's especially worth it if you want a holistic system, not just a pill. Has Nutrafol changed over time? Yes, the brand has clearly listened to customer feedback. The vegan formula was launched to meet plant-based demand, and the added support, like hair mineral testing, makes this more of a lifestyle solution than just a get-longer-hair, health be damned solution. Plus, it supports hormonal health after childbirth with Nutrafol Postpartum, a nutraceutical specifically designed for the changes your body goes through. For over 200 years, the New York Post has been America's go-to source for bold news, engaging stories, in-depth reporting, and now, insightful shopping guidance. We're not just thorough reporters – we sift through mountains of information, test and compare products, and consult experts on any topics we aren't already schooled specialists in to deliver useful, realistic product recommendations based on our extensive and hands-on analysis. Here at The Post, we're known for being brutally honest – we clearly label partnership content, and whether we receive anything from affiliate links, so you always know where we stand. We routinely update content to reflect current research and expert advice, provide context (and wit) and ensure our links work. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change.
Business Wire
a day ago
- Business
- Business Wire
ePIPE ®: The Faster, Cost-Effective Solution for Lead (Pb) Pipe Remediation
SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Traditional repiping isn't the only, or best, solution for remediating lead service lines. ePIPE ®, an American-made, patented pipe coating technology, is changing how municipalities, utilities, and property owners get rid of lead contamination. Unlike costly and disruptive full pipe replacement, ePIPE restores pipes faster and at a lower cost while meeting strict compliance standards, including NSF/ANSI 61 requirements. With ePIPE's trenchless application, lead service lines can be protected in hours, not days, minimizing disruption to homes, businesses, and roadways. An NSF 61-approved epoxy barrier is applied inside existing pipes, sealing lead and other contaminants while extending the pipe's life; without the need for full replacement. Why Choose ePIPE Over Traditional Repiping? American-Made Innovation – Designed and manufactured in the U.S., ensuring top quality and reliability. Cost Savings – Reduces labor, material, and remediation costs associated with full pipe replacement. Time Efficient – Pipes are protected in just a few hours, drastically reducing downtime. Minimal Disruption – Minimizing extensive excavation, preserving streets, sidewalks, and landscaping. Durability – Extends the lifespan of existing infrastructure, reducing environmental impact. Beyond lead remediation, ePIPE is trusted for commercial, residential, and government applications, including leak protection, corrosion control, and water quality improvements. With service locations in Southern California, Washington D.C., and Tampa, FL, ePIPE provides nationwide support to organizations seeking a faster, smarter solution to lead pipe remediation. To learn more about how ePIPE can save money and time, visit our website or contact us at (800) 359-6369. About ePIPE With over 40 US and International patents, the ePIPE process involves restoring pipes in-place, with an application of an approved epoxy barrier coating resulting in a restored and protected epoxy lined piping system. The process provides a solution for slab leaks, pinhole leaks, and the reduction of lead leaching from lead pipes and lead contributors. For more information, contact ePIPE ® Pipe Restoration Inc. at or (800) 359-6369.
Gizmodo
2 days ago
- Business
- Gizmodo
The U.S. Could Lose a Crucial Futuristic Telescope to Spain if Trump's Budget Passes
Spain has offered to spend up to €400 million ($471 million) to host the Thirty Meter Telescope, an enormous observatory project facing imminent cancellation due to U.S. budget constraints. If Spain strikes a deal, the TMT would be built on La Palma in the Canary Islands rather than on Mauna Kea, a mountain in Hawaii. In 2016, La Palma became the backup location for the observatory in case the primary site in Hawaii didn't work out as an option, according to the TMT International Observatory. Now more than ever, it looks like that may be the case. President Donald Trump's Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal for the National Science Foundation (NSF), which is funding the TMT's development, would reduce the agency's budget by nearly 60%. To make ends meet, the NFS has opted to halt progress on the TMT and instead prioritize development of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project in Chile. Now that U.S. investment in the TMT has been thrown into question, Spain is chomping at the bit to take over the project. On July 23, Diana Morant, the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities in Spain, announced that the Spanish government is willing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to move construction of the telescope to La Palma. 'Spain wants and can be the home of the future of astronomy and astrophysics,' Morant said, according to a statement translated from Spanish. 'We have the capacity and the political will to do so.' The TMT would bring significant scientific value to Spain. With its nearly 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) light-collecting mirror, this optical telescope would be one of the largest in the world. It's one of three huge ground-based telescopes currently in development, including the GMT and the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Spain already contributes to the ELT—the largest of the three telescopes. Once complete, these huge observatories will allow astronomers to study the cosmos with extremely high resolution. In response to Morant's announcement, the TMT International Observatory said there has not been a final decision about the telescope's future at its primary site in Hawaii. Whether Trump's budget proposal actually passes will likely be the deciding factor, and there's reason to believe that it won't. Congress has shown signs that it would broadly resist NSF budget cuts, according to Inside Higher Ed. Still, the project faced significant hurdles long before Trump's second term, largely due to mounting federal pressure on the NSF to cut costs by pursuing one major telescope project instead of two. The TMT has also been mired in controversy due to the fact that its primary construction site is located on a sacred Hawaiian mountain. In 2019, thousands of protestors gathered on the Mauna Kea Access Road to halt construction of the telescope, according to the Honolulu Civil Beat. TMT developers chose this site for its exceptionally dark, light pollution-free skies, making it a premier vantage point from which to observe the cosmos. There are already 13 astronomical observatories seated atop this mountain. La Palma isn't as advantageous. The Spanish site sits at a significantly lower altitude than Mauna Kea, which means the telescope would have to peer through more layers of the atmosphere. This would lower the quality of observations, according to Nature News. If the U.S. moves forward with the proposed NSF budget, that may be a sacrifice worth making. Spain certainly seems to think so. 'Faced with the risk of paralyzing this major international scientific project, the Spanish government has decided to act with a redoubled commitment to science and major scientific infrastructures for the benefit of global knowledge,' Morant said.
Forbes
5 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
How Higher Ed Can Operationalize The AI Action Plan With Agentic AI
Rear view of two university students walk down campus stairs at sunset The federal government's new AI Action Plan makes one thing clear: Artificial intelligence is national infrastructure. With over $13 billion authorized for AI-related education and workforce development through CHIPS & Science, and more than $490 million in core AI research funding in the NSF pipeline for 2025 alone, the question facing colleges and universities is not whether to engage with agentic AI—it's how. And how fast. What many institutions still lack isn't ambition; it's operational capacity. The ability to move from a strategy document to a deliverable. From a pilot idea to a fundable, scalable program. That's where agentic workflows come in. Agentic workflows are multi-step, semi-autonomous processes designed to operate under institutional oversight. They take in complex data, make decisions, and act. And they're already transforming the potential for higher education to public policy, funding opportunities, and internal innovation goals. Here are three workflows I believe every forward-looking institution can implement to meet the moment. Building AI Infrastructure: The Agentic AI Readiness Mapper If your institution wants to get ahead in the era of AI-driven growth, now is the time to start mapping your college-to-career pipeline. For example, the U.S. is projected to face a shortage of nearly 67,000 skilled semiconductor workers by 2030—a gap that colleges and universities are uniquely positioned to help close. The CHIPS & Science Act is clear in its expectations: Funding will flow to those who can show evidence-based plans for talent development. That means building live, data-informed roadmaps that align education with the future of work. Maricopa Community Colleges offer one model. They launched a 10-day 'Semiconductor Technician Quick-Start' boot camp and secured $1.7 million from the National Semiconductor Technology Center to expand that effort across four campuses. They didn't wait for a perfect curriculum—they partnered with industry, moved quickly, and aligned their messaging with what the federal government wants. An AI Infrastructure Mapper automates the front-end of this process. It scans course catalogs, labor market data, and physical infrastructure to identify where talent pipelines exist and where they need to be built. And it translates that into a funding narrative. These workflows generate the backbone for grant proposals, program design, and workforce planning. Competing For Federal Funding: The Agentic AI Grant Alignment Advisor Institutions don't lose grants because their ideas are bad. They lose because they're not speaking the language of the solicitation. As someone who's reviewed and advised on college applications, I can tell you: Alignment is everything. That's what makes an agentic Grant Alignment Advisor such a game-changer. It can continuously scans RFPs across federal agencies—NSF, Department of Labor, Department of Education—and match solicitations to existing institutional initiatives. It rewrites objectives, fills in gaps, and ensures the proposal mirrors the values and language of the funder. We've already seen the power of grant making in action at institutions like UMass Lowell, which funded over 30 AI mini-grants for faculty to experiment with GenAI tools across disciplines. By lowering the barrier to internal proposal writing and aligning project goals with broader institutional strategy, they created a feedback loop: Fundable ideas became test beds for larger-scale grant applications. The same logic can—and should—be applied across the enterprise. Embedding Ethics At Scale: The Responsible Agentic AI Course Co-Designer The 2025 Corporate Recruiters Survey from the Graduate Management Admission Council—based on responses from over 1,100 employers, including many Fortune 500 firms—shows that AI fluency, especially when paired with ethical reasoning, is the most sought-after skill for the next five years. To stay relevant and empower students for this future, academic programs must go beyond teaching how to use AI tools—they must also help students critically evaluate, manage, and make judgments about their capabilities. We're seeing institutions like the University of Louisiana System take the lead here. They launched a 16-hour AI literacy microcredential available to all 82,000 students and staff. It integrates AI fluency with ethics, including bias, privacy, accountability. That's intentional and smart. An agentic Course Co-Designer accelerates this process. It crosswalks global AI ethics frameworks—from NIST to OECD—and suggests course structures, assessments, and case studies that align with them. It flags outdated materials. It iterates as the frameworks evolve. It takes what would be a six-month curriculum design sprint and gets it 80% of the way there in a day. And most importantly, it ensures that institutions are building AI capacity responsibly—not just reactively. Higher education often spends more time analyzing problems than solving them. But with AI, and the capabilities of agentic AI, we don't have that luxury. The AI Action Plan comes with real funding, active policy momentum, and fast-rising expectations from government, employers, and students alike. It's time to move from reflection to action.
Gizmodo
5 days ago
- Science
- Gizmodo
A Rare Interstellar Object Is Zipping Through Our Solar System. This Brand-New Telescope Saw It First
Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later confirmed as an interstellar visitor traveling toward the Sun. Several telescopes have since turned their attention to the wandering object, but it turns out the brand-new Vera C. Rubin Observatory was the first to catch a glimpse of 3I/ATLAS. In an act of cosmic serendipity, astronomers pointed the Rubin Observatory toward the patch of sky where the interstellar object appeared during its commissioning phase. Images captured by the observatory, perched atop a mountain in the Chilean Andes, later revealed the comet in its full glory. Rubin's observations of 3I/ATLAS were recorded on June 21, around 10 days before its official discovery, according to a recent paper available on the preprint website arXiv. The Rubin Observatory, overseen by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE), boasts the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. Its car-sized, 3.2-gigapixel camera is designed to capture ultra-high-definition images and videos of the cosmos. The observatory unveiled its first images to the public on June 23, observing millions of galaxies and stars in the Milky Way over a period of just 10 hours. The images were not only beautiful—they also revealed supernovas and distant galaxies that could help astronomers study the universe's expansion. With its revolutionary precision, it's no wonder then that the Rubin Observatory captured the recently discovered comet before any other telescope. 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in data collected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) between June 25 and 29, and again on July 1. By July 2, the Deep Random Survey remote telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, had seen it too. The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center confirmed that this comet came from outside our solar system on July 2, marking the third discovery of an interstellar object. Since then, astronomers have been rushing to gather as much data as they can on the mysterious object. The Gemini North telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii, recently snapped a close-up view of 3I/ATLAS, capturing the comet's coma in extreme detail. Initial observations of 3I/ATLAS suggest it's the oldest comet ever found, around 2 billion years older than our solar system. Compared to the two previously discovered interstellar objects, 'Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov, 3I/ATLAS is not only older, but it's also faster. A recent study, which has yet to undergo peer review, found that 3I/ATLAS has a hyperbolic velocity of about 37 miles per second (60 kilometers per second). Rubin's early observations of 3I/ATLAS are important considering they are the earliest images captured of the comet by a high-precision telescope. The new paper includes 49 images in total, although some were excluded because they were captured during Rubin's alignment sequence and were out of focus. Nineteen of the images were captured during intentional operations and confirm that 3I/ATLAS does in fact behave like a comet, with a cloud of gas and dust surrounding its icy nucleus, according to the paper. Just as it was the first to spot the comet, Rubin will also be the first to lose sight of it. On August 22, 3I/ATLAS will shift out of the area in the sky currently being watched by the observatory. Until then, the astronomers behind the paper will keep an eye out for the interstellar visitor in Rubin's images.
