Until recently, the prevailing view assumed <em>lorem ipsum</em> was born as a nonsense text. “It’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,” <em>Before & After</em> magazine answered a curious reader, “Its ‘words’ loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.”

As Cicero would put it, “Um, not so fast.”

The placeholder text, beginning with the line <em>“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit”</em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is credited with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of <em>lorem ipsum</em>, his interest was piqued by <em>consectetur</em>—a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from <em>De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum</em> (“On the Extremes of Good and Evil”), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.

Imagina que tus folículos pilosos son como pequeñas fábricas que producen cabello. En la alopecia areata, ¡hay un malentendido en la fábrica! El sistema inmunológico, que normalmente protege nuestro cuerpo, ¡se confunde y ataca equivocadamente esas fábricas de cabello!

Esto puede hacer que el cabello se caiga en lugares específicos, como círculos pequeños en el cuero cabelludo o en otras partes del cuerpo, como cejas y pestañas. Puede ser como si hubiera pequeñas áreas sin cabello.

Pero aquí viene la buena noticia: ¡la mayoría de las veces, es como si las fábricas de cabello fueran súper héroes y pudieran regresar a trabajar! A menudo, el cabello vuelve a crecer, ¡aunque a veces lleva su tiempo!

Until recently, the prevailing view assumed <em>lorem ipsum</em> was born as a nonsense text. “It’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,” <em>Before & After</em> magazine answered a curious reader, “Its ‘words’ loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.”

As Cicero would put it, “Um, not so fast.”

The placeholder text, beginning with the line <em>“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit”</em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is credited with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of <em>lorem ipsum</em>, his interest was piqued by <em>consectetur</em>—a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from <em>De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum</em> (“On the Extremes of Good and Evil”), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.

Until recently, the prevailing view assumed <em>lorem ipsum</em> was born as a nonsense text. “It’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,” <em>Before & After</em> magazine answered a curious reader, “Its ‘words’ loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.”

As Cicero would put it, “Um, not so fast.”

The placeholder text, beginning with the line <em>“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit”</em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is credited with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of <em>lorem ipsum</em>, his interest was piqued by <em>consectetur</em>—a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from <em>De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum</em> (“On the Extremes of Good and Evil”), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.