Maryem asked:


is 30s too young…wen did u or someone u no start greying…..just wondering concidering im only 14

o and wat can u do to prevent it w/o ur hair falling off?

Prevent Gray Hair

ificutmyhairirelandwillsink asked:


yesterday i was looking in the mirror and i had a white hair…i kind of freaked out…i looked and found a second one and thats it, i checked my whole head and their werent anymore

im pretty stressed with school…could that be it??? my hair is like the one thing i like about myself, i love my hair, i dont want it to turn grey/white

what could have caused this, how can i prevent it and could it happen agian!!?!
i also straighten my hair every weekday…could that be the problem??? btw i have dark brown hair if thats important at all

Prevent Gray Hair

used asked:


If you are young and you find out that you have one or two gray hair on top of head or beard, can you try to eliminate it by plucking them? Or is it true that a lot more appear after?

Gray Hair Remedy

eshafrenz asked:


cure for pre age greying of hair……natural cure way for preventing and cure

Gray Hair Remedy

curious101 asked:


I’m 23 and I started getting grey hair 2-3 years ago, what I want to know is, what causes this and is there any way to reverse the effects or to prevent more from coming?

Prevention of Grey Hair

Ash121 asked:


Does anyone know how i can prevent myself from having more grey hairs? Ive heard heat makes it worse? Thats why I don’t use hair dryer or straighteners…. But is this true?

Gray Hair Cure

Pat Fenn asked:


Last week in a TV appearance, our President was showing a little gray over the ears.  Immediately the pundits starting talking about how the stress of the White House position was already taking its toll on our young President.

There’s no question about it – Barack Obama’s job is stressful.  Probably no one would debate the fact that it’s the MOST stressful job in the USA.

 But is he graying because of the job?  Or is he graying because one of his enzyme anti-oxidants is depleted?

The cells in our bodies make several powerful antioxidants.  When those are strong and working together our immune systems easily ward off diseases, we feel better, and get better sleep. 

Glutathione, the body’s foremost antioxidant is the quarterback.  The backfield is then made up of the other three – Catalase, CoQ-10 and Super Oxide Dismutase (SOD.) These 4 anti-oxidants have been likened to the backfield of a great football team.

Now a team of European researchers are theorizing that the depletion in our Catalase enzyme could be a cause of graying hair.   As you know, antioxidants are used by the body to remove dangerous toxins in the body, and maintain our body’s chemical balance.  One of the tasks of Catalase is to break down hydrogen peroxide in the body.   When Catalase levels are low, hydrogen peroxide levels are high.

These scientists realized that gray hair is simply the absence of pigment.  They knew that every hair cell makes a little hydrogen peroxide, but over time it builds up in the hair follicles.   They discovered that this buildup ended in blocking the normal synthesis of the natural pigment in the hair, called melanin.

So our hair bleaches itself from the inside out as the hydrogen peroxide builds up and blocks our black, brown, red, or auburn pigments.

“Therefore, President Obama, it may not be the stress of the job that is graying your temples.  Rather it’s a low Catalase level!”

Can you imagine?  Raise your Catalase level and your hair could stay naturally colored throughout your whole life.  Throw away those artificial dyes.  Just get your Catalase!



Cover Grey Hair

Paul Hata asked:


Sizzling right out of a dozen laboratories has come the news-flash that lack of certain vitamins causes hair to turn gray and that these same vitamins can restore its color.It is such a brand new discovery that it is not yet positive how these beauty vitamins affect human beings.

In the usual course of nutrition research, discoveries are first tested on animals and then applied to man. Already the anti-gray hair vitamins have proved their potency in restoring color to the graying fur of foxes, dogs and rats. The next step is to try them on human beings.

No scientist will at this writing promise that vitamins will bring back the color to your gray hair or prevent its turning gray. They merely say they don’t know. Nevertheless, though cagily noncommittal in public, scientists shed their caution when they’re alone among their test tubes. Plenty of scientists are gray-haired, if not venerable, and a number of them are human enough to have taken their own gray hair medicine. Scattered reports have drifted out of the cloisters indicating that certain vitamin concentrates have succeeded in darkening the color of prematurely graying human hair.

There is still some dissension as to the exact vitamin that works these miracles, but it is certain that it is one or perhaps several factors of the miraculous B complex. The important thing is that, even though not specifically identified, the food sources of the factor are well known and easily available to anyone.

One of the first reports on the gray hair vitamins came out of the laboratories of Dr. Agnes Fay Morgan of the University of California just a few months ago. A strain of black-coated rats was fed a diet that included liberal amounts of four purified B vitamins: thiamin, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, and pyridoxine. In six to eight weeks the black hair of the rats began to turn gray. They ceased to grow and died within six to eight months. Their personal appearance was most unhappy; they looked like emaciated centenarians with loose, baggy skin and sparse gray hair.

This was exciting to all concerned except the rats. The animals didn’t know what they were missing and neither did the scientists, but obviously it wasn’t the four B vitamins. These had been obtained in the customary way by shaking water solutions of yeast, liver or rice bran with Fuller’s earth.

The filtrate that remained after this process of separation obviously contained another vitamin or vitamins. This was satisfactorily proved when the rats showed immediate improvement and were quickly restored to full health by feeding concentrated extracts of the filtrate factor. Miraculously, the gray patches in their fur grew out with normal black color.

A six-week-old cocker spaniel with long, coal black, curly hair was put on a filtrate-deficient diet. Soon his hair lost pigment at the roots and within three months his coat was gray. Fed a filtrate made from yeast, his coat, too, resumed its glossy black hue.

Piebald rats in the care of Dr. Conrad Elvehjem of the University of Wisconsin turned gray on certain diets. He succeeded in restoring normal hair color by feeding them liver extract. A similar observation and cure was reported by Dr. Gulbrand Lunde and Dr. Hans Kringstad, two Norwegians who are credited with the first report on the antigray hair vitamin. In still another experiment, black-haired rats fed on a milk diet became anemic and their hair turned a silvery gray. In this case the color was restored by adding iron and copper to the diet.

Many investigators believe that pantothenic acid, one of the newer B vitamins, is the essential factor in preventing and restoring gray hair. Concentrated dosage of pure pantothenic acid has cured gray-haired rats; other investigators have failed to restore hair color with pantothenic acid alone. Dr. Morgan is convinced that pantothenic acid is concerned in the phenomenon of graying hair but that other factors are probably important also.

That one, perhaps the most essential, of these factors is a well-known chemical out of which novocain is made is indicated by the work of Dr. S. Ansbacher of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. The substance, a B vitamin bearing the formidable name of para-aminobenzoic acid, has restored hair color to rats where pantothenic acid alone has failed.



Reverse Gray Hair

Dody Gasparik asked:


Gray hair at a young age can have various causes, such as vitiligo, vitamin B deficiency, thyroid imbalance, constant and extreme stress, alopecia areata, bad diet, etc. but its greatest trigger is genetics, causing the premature death of pigment-producing cells in hair follicles. When it comes to treating gray hair caused by one of the aforementioned health conditions then the focus should be on tackling the primary reason. In treating genetically determined, premature gray hair, any effective therapy should involve interference with our genes. However, at the moment, no such treatment exists that can halt or reverse the dying of pigment-producing cells called melanocytes. There are some commercial products out there, though, containing vitamins, minerals and a Chinese herb Fo-Ti that are supposed to stop and reverse gray hair but the only evidence supporting the claims made by their marketers refers back to the old Chinese legend of an old villager, Mr. He, from one thousand years ago. Vitamins B, namely PABA and folic acid, have been observed to stop graying in individuals with diets poor in vitamins B but they cannot help reverse gray hair in people suffering from chronic vitamin B deficiency, let alone in cases of genetically-determined graying hair.

Therefore, the only available and effective treatment option for premature and age-related gray hair is to cover it. There are two principal coloring options for covering gray hair, which include hair dyes and progressive hair colorants. Hair dyes can be temporary, semi-permanent, demi-permanent or permanent, depending on the durability of their coloring effects. The ability of the pigment molecules to penetrate into the hair shaft determines the stability of the hair color. Each hair consists of at least two layers, the cuticle, which is an outer protective layer, and the cortex, which is hidden under the cuticle. Permanent hair dye is, as its name says, the most stable of the hair coloring options and the most effective method of covering gray hair amongst hair dyes, as its large molecules get trapped in the cortex of the hair and resist being washed out but it is also the most drastic method of dyeing hair. Hair dyes are popular, especially with female consumers. Men usually look for more subtle options of covering their gray hair as for a man dyeing hair is socially less acceptable. Progressive hair colorants, with their slow and gradual mode of action, seem to be the right product for men.

The marketing of progressive hair colorants is typically targeted at male customers but these products can be also successfully used by women. They color hair gradually and unnoticeably and only affect your gray hair. They can be applied selectively so that you can leave certain areas untreated to look more natural. Progressive hair colorants are easy to apply, no plastic gloves are needed to apply them (with very few exceptions), and you just have to spread them on your white areas. Their mechanism of action consists of the chemical reaction involving one or two substances from the colorant, which in the presence of atmospheric oxygen produce synthetic pigment on the surface as well as in the pores and for some of them also in the cortex of your hair. As the substance is drying in the air, the chemical reaction begins and lasts until the next shampoo wash. Hence, the longer the substance stays in your hair the better. The downside is that progressive hair colorants have to be reapplied quite frequently, which makes them more expensive compared with the majority of traditional hair dyes. Progressive hair colorants are either metallic based or use organic chemicals.

The occasional controversy surrounding these products results from a wrong understanding of their mechanism of action and the purpose they were designed for. Their aim is not to cover all your gray hair with a single application. For people with more than 50% of their hair white, it is practically impossible to achieve full white hair coverage with these products, no matter how often they apply them. They were designed for people who would like to reduce the amount of their gray and wish to do it discretely and unnoticeably. Frequent shampooing reduces the effectiveness of these products as does exposure to direct sun.



Prevention of Grey Hair

natycarj asked:


I need to color my hair more and more frequently as the years go by and that’s a pain! If I was at least 40, I would give up and let my hair go gray, but I’m too young for that… Has a medicine that makes gray hair go back to its original color been invented yet?

Gray Hair