Comments on: Stress–the Genetic Kind–Really Can Make Hair Go Gray

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:52:53 +0000

Some people go gray at a young age – as early as when they are in high school or college – whereas others may be in their 30s or 40s before they see that first gray hair. This means that most of us will start having gray hairs around the same age that our parents or grandparents first did.

By: mehdi Khodadadi

mehdi Khodadadi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:15:44 +0000

Hi , I live in iran , i want to know , are you a method or drug for reversing gray hair ?

By: YouRang

YouRang — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:02:57 +0000

I hope this new research helps to debunk the (scientifically propagated) myth that gray hair is just white hair thrown in among dark hair. (IOW gray is just a variety of salt and pepper). That’s the version I’ve heard somewhere in some reporting of scientific work. If it’s true that a single strand of gray hair also produces no pigment at all, then there must be some structural change when the hair turns white from gray that makes it look white.
BTW the Baltic people (at least the ones who don’t start out very blond) don’t go white until they pass about 100. My dad was merely gray salt and pepper at 90, my dad’s cousin had dark brunette hair at 80 (don’t know now tho), my grandma had gray hair at 100 (very white when she died at 104 tho and the other grandma turned white before 103). Don’t know about the g-g-…uncle who died at 120 in 1826 and who fathered kids at 92. (BTW the gerontologists ought to study the people from along the border of Latvia and Lithuania; from my genealogical research, every year in the decades between 1840 and 1860, about 1% of the people (including babies) who died that year were centenarians and a few (like that gg..uncle) were super-centenarians.)

By: Jumblepudding

Jumblepudding — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:55:44 +0000

So that’s why gray sideburns were considered distinguished in the 50’s-they signified exposure to radiation and therefore prosperity.

By: Patimus

Patimus — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:34:33 +0000

what about baldness? At least you can dye your hair.

By: Steve F

Steve F — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:15:28 +0000

…or Microwaved foods…

By: Steve F

Steve F — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:10:41 +0000

I don’t want to cause a panic, but, does this mean that people of my generation who grew up in the 1980’s, in the UK, with “salt & pepper” hair (going grey since I was 21 may I add) – are indeed half baked from the fallout from Chernobyl?