As a younger person, maybe you had a full head of brown, black, red, or blonde hair. Your body has hair follicles, which are small sacs that line skin cells.
Hair follicles have pigment cells known as melanin. These cells give your hair its color. But over time, hair follicles can lose pigment, resulting in white hair. White hair is more noticeable in people with a darker hair color.
There could be ways to restore pigmentation, but it depends on the cause. Here are common causes of premature white hair. Your makeup plays a big role in when or if you develop white hair. Stress can also affect your hair. A study found a connection between stress and a depletion of stem cells in the hair follicles of mice.
This theory might also explain why some world leaders appear to age or gray faster while in office. An autoimmune disease can also cause premature white hair. In the case of alopecia and vitiligo , the immune system can attack hair and cause loss of pigment. Hormonal changes caused by a thyroid problem — such as hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism — may also be responsible for premature white hair. The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located at the base of your neck.
It helps control many bodily functions such as metabolism. The health of your thyroid can also influence the color of your hair. An overactive or underactive thyroid can cause your body to produce less melanin. So thyroid problems, too much or too little, for people who are prematurely gray, once again I said, probably a couple ones that you're pulling out in your mid is probably normal if you're. Jones: Right. If you're half-gray by the time you get to your mid, then that's a little early.
So dietary things , you need to eat well to make color. So there are cells in the root of our hair follicle that make color, and if they don't get the right nutrients, B12, which comes in meats and proteins, and other kinds of chemicals, then they can't make color.
This is one of the few reversible causes of graying. People who have high or low thyroid and people with some autoimmune diseases that knock off the hair follicles may also go prematurely gray. But prematurely gray, gosh, I think Steve Martin and Anderson Cooper look pretty hot with their hair color. And there are women who can look really great either with some salt and pepper or when they let it grow gray completely.
Jones: Platinum gray. Ooh, I want that. Well, maybe not, maybe not. But if you're growing gray before you're 20, then that's early. If you're half-gray before you're 40, then that's early. But a few that you pluck out, those are your wisdoms. I would keep them around. Subscribe to Our e-Newsletter. When you go gray on your head, does the hair on the other parts of your body go gray as well?
No, no, Joe, Joe! We can picture it. Chwalek: So you can grow gray hair anywhere on your body. Wherever you have hair, the hair is susceptible to oxidative damage and eventually going gray. Flanagan: So the main cause of going gray is genetics, but what role can stress play? After all, Obama didn't look like this when he showed up at the White House. Chwalek: So it's controversial the role that stress has in hair graying.
We know that stress creates oxidative damage in the body, and it's been linked to a lot of premature-aging syndromes. So it's thought that the stress, that stress causes oxidative damage, which may cause damage to the melanocytes and may cause us to grow gray earlier. We know that smokers tend to go gray more so than the general population, and again it's felt that it's probably due to the oxidative damage that smoke causes and how it affects the pigment-producing cells in the hair.
I think eating a well-balanced diet, so you make sure that you don't develop any nutritional deficiencies, that's another thing that can be done. And modulating your stress. That's another thing you have control over, which over time can cause oxidative damage and, again, make you prone to potentially more gray hair.
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