The key to all of your most frustrating hair concerns could lie in your scalp microbiome.

Here’s what the pros want you to know about keeping it balanced.

And believe it or not, thats actually a good thing.

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Collectively, this can layer up, he says.

When this balance is disrupted, where the negative microbes become dominant and overpower the positive microbes.

One of the biggest side effects of a disrupted scalp microbiome, adds Gaunitz, is dandruff.

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Brian Oh is the co-founder of VENN Skincare, a high-performance line of science-backed skin and hair-care products from South Korea.

Its directly related to a flare-up of the Malassezia furfur fungus on the scalp.

The whole body is represented by how your scalp works, says Gaunitz.

Want an up-close-and-personal view of what happens when your scalp gets out of whack?

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