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The anti gray hair pill

Imagine if there existed an anti-gray hair pill?  Well, there is!  It is a vitamin called para-aminobenzoic acid, or PABA as it is most often referred.  Studies have shown that animals whose diets lacked this vitamin developed gray hair.  Once the vitamin was added back into their diets, the gray hair actually returned to its natural color. 

Other studies conducted on humans found that when every meal was supplemented with 200 mg of the vitamin PABA, seventy percent of the grays returned to their original color.  Moreover, more research on the vitamin found that PABA, combined with Folic Acid, successfully reversed gray hair as well.

Other B vitamins whose deficiencies have been shown to result in gray hair are Biotin, Folic Acid, and Pantothenic Acid.  Pills, which contain these ingredients, can be a powerful supplement to the diet. 

Granted, not all gray hair can be attributed to a B vitamin deficiency.  Therefore in those cases, it is not as simple as just popping a pill.  However, in the cases in which vitamins did not restore the gray hair back to its original color, the B vitamin supplementation did aid in improving the quality and strength of the hair growth, albeit gray hair growth. 

For a more preventative approach, Biotin (also called “vitamin H”) supplementation is good way to keep hair from turning gray.  Plus, it can prevent baldness.   

Finally, if stress is causing your hair to turn gray try zinc.  Although zinc is not a vitamin, adequate intake of the mineral is necessary for the body to correctly process stress.