Premature greying of hair

[elvis123]

Is here any way to combat this? I like to keep my hair short but every time i shave my hair i have to dye it again and it is beginning to be a big hassle, is there anything that can help this condition???

 

[Cassin]

I have done well at slowing it down greatly with copper peptides.

 

[elvis123]

But there is so solution in terms of actually reversing the greyness right?

because i think the worst is only when you have a little grey....if you had a lot of grey then you can either leave it or dye your whole head....it's just so annoying when you only have a little bit and you have to deal with it....

 

[elvis123]

I was wondering if there are any hair products or things you can eat which sort of darken a bit so it looks more like highlights?

 

[Cassin]

I was wondering if there are any hair products or things you can eat which sort of darken a bit so it looks more like highlights?

Yeah there is no cure...merely slowing it down.

I suggest you go to a salon and have your hair professional "colored" to take care of it. I doubt many over the counter products work well.

 

[Petchsky]

Look in to Vitamin B6, i'm sure i've read some anecdotal info on this helping, as well as copper peptides.

 

[DoctorHouse]

Something reversed one of my gray hairs. It was growing out gray and then it changed color midstream and turned to my natural brown color. I also have alot of new hairs coming in and they are brown too. Its either the LLT or the copper peptides or both but I just hope its happening all over my head. This hair was at my hairline so it was easy to see. I could not believe this was possible until I saw it first hand. However, I agree with Cassin, get your hair professionally colored. I do and it looks great and nobody knows I have gray hairs until they grow back. Just for Men washes out over time whereas if you get it colored it adds the color to it permanently so you only have to get the roots touched up every 4 to 6 weeks. Not only that but it makes your hair so much thicker. I saw an Asian kid who was only 17 years old and has gray hairs all over. I think that constitutes premature gray hairs. Usually Asians mostly have jet black hair. That was the first case I ever saw of premature graying.

 

[diffuse propecia]

try minoxidil, the stuff is turning my blond hair black.

 

[5920715]

Try youthair

http://www.nomoregray.com/

or

blackstrap molasses

loads of info on google:
http://www.google.ie/search?hair loss=en&q=bla ... arch&meta=

 

[elvis123]

Wow that molasses stuff seems very good.......but on further research it seems the reasons why it works is because it contains minerals like potassium, mag, calcium etc...

I have that stuff in my multivitamins already....

 

[vauxall]

On the LEF forum, which I have now abonded due to spam and flames, somebody ahs pointed out that a combination of arginine and lysine might revert grey hair. In other words it might have to do with the growth hormone.

I have also read that PABA might help. This is something I am going to try in the future as I am still relatively dark in my hair but I feel the greying coming.

 

[Cassin]

I tried PABA . Can't say it helped or hurt at all.

 

[elvis123]

Grey hair really sucks....especially if you do have hair loss....sometimes you don't even want to dye it anymore because the situation is so helpless

 

[5920715]

anybody try

Shou Wu Chih

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shou_Wu_Chih

 

[vauxall]

I tried PABA . Can't say it helped or hurt at all.

How much and for how long?

Did you try arginine and/or Lysine?

 

[vauxall]

I have found this article, it suggests that L-methionine could repair grey hair:

Senile hair graying: H2O2-mediated oxidative stress affects human hair color by blunting methionine sulfoxide repair.Wood JM, Decker H, Hartmann H, Chavan B, Rokos H, Spencer JD, Hasse S, Thornton MJ, Shalbaf M, Paus R, Schallreuter KU.
*Department of Biomedical Sciences, Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, andInstitute for Pigmentary Disorders, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK;Institute of Molecular Biophysics, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany;Department of Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; and ||University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

Senile graying of human hair has been the subject of intense research since ancient times. Reactive oxygen species have been implicated in hair follicle melanocyte apoptosis and DNA damage. Here we show for the first time by FT-Raman spectroscopy in vivo that human gray/white scalp hair shafts accumulate hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in millimolar concentrations. Moreover, we demonstrate almost absent catalase and methionine sulfoxide reductase A and B protein expression via immunofluorescence and Western blot in association with a functional loss of methionine sulfoxide (Met-S=O) repair in the entire gray hair follicle. Accordingly, Met-S=O formation of Met residues, including Met 374 in the active site of tyrosinase, the key enzyme in melanogenesis, limits enzyme functionality, as evidenced by FT-Raman spectroscopy, computer simulation, and enzyme kinetics, which leads to gradual loss of hair color. Notably, under in vitro conditions, Met oxidation can be prevented by L-methionine. In summary, our data feed the long-voiced, but insufficiently proven, concept of H2O2-induced oxidative damage in the entire human hair follicle, inclusive of the hair shaft, as a key element in senile hair graying, which does not exclusively affect follicle melanocytes. This new insight could open new strategies for intervention and reversal of the hair graying process.-Wood, J. M., Decker, H., Hartmann, H., Chavan, B., Rokos, H., Spencer, J. D., Hasse, S., Thornton, M. J., Shalbaf, M., Paus, R., Schallreuter, K. U. Senile hair graying: H2O2-mediated oxidative stress affects human hair color by blunting methionine sulfoxide repair.

PMID: 19237503 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

This also is an interesting article that suggest that it is due to oxidative stress :

Towards a "free radical theory of graying": melanocyte apoptosis in the aging human hair follicle is an indicator of oxidative stress induced tissue damage.Arck PC, Overall R, Spatz K, Liezman C, Handjiski B, Klapp BF, Birch-Machin MA, Peters EM.
Cutaneous Neuroimmunology, Biomedical Research Center, Rm. Nr. 2.0549, University Medicine Charité, Virchow Campus, Humboldt University of Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin 13353, Germany. eva.peters@charite.de

Oxidative stress is generated by a multitude of environmental and endogenous challenges such as radiation, inflammation, or psychoemotional stress. It also speeds the aging process. Graying is a prominent but little understood feature of aging. Intriguingly, the continuous melanin synthesis in the growing (anagen) hair follicle generates high oxidative stress. We therefore hypothesize that hair bulb melanocytes are especially susceptible to free radical-induced aging. To test this hypothesis, we subjected human scalp skin anagen hair follicles from graying individuals to macroscopic and immunohistomorphometric analysis and organ culture. We found evidence of melanocyte apoptosis and increased oxidative stress in the pigmentary unit of graying hair follicles. The "common" deletion, a marker mitochondrial DNA-deletion for accumulating oxidative stress damage, occurred most prominently in graying hair follicles. Cultured unpigmented hair follicles grew better than pigmented follicles of the same donors. Finally, cultured pigmented hair follicles exposed to exogenous oxidative stress (hydroquinone) showed increased melanocyte apoptosis in the hair bulb. We conclude that oxidative stress is high in hair follicle melanocytes and leads to their selective premature aging and apoptosis. The graying hair follicle, therefore, offers a unique model system to study oxidative stress and aging and to test antiaging therapeutics in their ability to slow down or even stop this process.

PMID: 16723385 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

[follicle84]

Lol, just found this, check it out.

http://health.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1072554.cms

Some people claim this actually works for hairloss and graying. There's meant to be some sort of science to it that makes it work. How bizare.

Type in google nailrubbing, hairloss and see what comes up.

 

[pproctor]

The action of peroxide at the cellular level is thought to be largely due to production of "hydroxyl radical" or something very similar. Pattern loss responds well to antioxidant drugs such as SOD's, spin traps , spin labels, etc.. These also tend to turn hair darker.

Interestingly, in addition to plain old darkening, we sometimes see gray hair turn blond on treatment. It is as if treatment partially, but not completely restores pigment production.

As for me-- I just dye it <grin>.. Leave a little grey so it looks natural.

Peter H. Proctor, PhD,MD

 

[DoctorHouse]

Dr Proctor, I had a new gray hair emerging at the front and then it changed back to my natural brown color midstream. It part gray and part brown. Its either from your Proxiphen or LLT.