What causes greying of the hair? Do we have any treatments?

[Nickie]

I've heard that stress actually does impact greying of the hair and almost "bleaches" the hair, and why it's permanent is anybody's guess. Also, I've heard that once the pigment runs out that's that.

I've noticed lately that aside from having a receeding hairline in which I'm using finasteride/dutasteride at the same time but on different days, rogaine foam/ tgel/nioxin,... I now have to deal with a few grey hairs sprouting out here and there, which I personally have no idea what to do with except to dye the hair.

Now greying obviously isn't a big deal anymore with hair dye, shaving, all sorts of methods/techniques, etc, but do we have any treatments for it, or preventions, or even fully understand what causes it?

Does that technically mean that we're getting old?

I'm asking because in the last few years I felt like internally and externally like I've aged 10 years. my face started looking older, I sprouted a few grays....all of a sudden.


any advice? thanks.

 

[s.a.f]

Yes you are getting older.

 

[decro435]

I remember reading about a man who took high amounts of Vitamin E to prevent Grey hair.

 

[5920715]

youthair

http://www.nomoregray.com/


RE:NU SERUM


Some people have said folligen and tricomin have reversed their gray hair.

 

[s.a.f]

youthair
http://www.nomoregray.com/

Ha ha, I can sell you some magic beans if you like.

 

[Fanjeera]

Gray hair is so beautiful.

 

[beaner]

I've got quite a few white hairs popping up over the last year or so. I don't mind them because they all seem to be twice as thick as my other ones. I wish they'd all turn white.

 

[ali777]

I have a love and hate relationship with my gray hairs. I know I don't look bad with a few gray hairs, but I don't like the fact that they indicate that I'm getting old :sobbing:.

The worst thing is, my bro is older but he doesn't have as many gray hairs as I do :shakehead:

 

[iwantperfection]

grey hair is distinguished and cool. plus it masks thin hair which isnt so bad. i hope i go grey when im older lol

 

[metropolis]

I've heard that stress actually does impact greying of the hair and almost "bleaches" the hair [...]

This is correct.

Here's a true story: in 1940, a Portuguese diplomat in France called Aristides de Sousa Mendes was confronted with a terrible dilemma: he could disobbey his orders and issue the visas that would save thousands of refugees or he could obbey the orders of the Portuguese government and let the refugees be deported to Germany. He was under a great stress and his hair turned white overnight.

Something similar (but far less dramatic) happened to me a couple of months ago: I was under a great stress because of my work and lots of gray hair popped up during that dreadful week.

(By the way, Sousa Mendes decided to issue the visas and saved more than 30,000 refugees; he was punished by the Portuguese government and died in poverty)

 

[beaner]

I read somewhere that it is physiologically impossible for one's hair to go white overnight, but the illusion of this is probably caused by a Telogen Effluvium which exposes alot of the white hair that was already there making one think it "turned white overnight."