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Do you know if polyester or elastane headwear can contribute to this problem? I ask because it is said that wearing underwear made of synthetic material negatively affects reproduction and is endocrine disrupting due to the static generated by the fibres as this was tested on dogs. I wondered if the static from synthetic headwear such as elasticated head bands could cause the stem cell to become stuck since static creates a disruption in the balance of ions.
I started going grey at 11 and was completely grey by 14. I dyed my hair for years but now (I’m 54) I can’t be bothered. My mum was the same so genetics certainly does have a lot to do with it.
@@3possumsinatrenchcoat naw, main character just gets Unique Hair Colour And/Or Style. It can be Pink, it can be Silver, it can be Blue, it can be anything as long as it isn't a standard haircut in brown black or blonde
Our family has this. My mom was all white by the time she was thirty. Now she’s 50+ and has a halo like bright white head of hair. My younger brother is almost all gray now and he’s 30 too. Younger sister colors her hair black so it’s hard to see how much white she has. I’m the last to go white and I have a big strand of white along my right forehead. It’s kinda coool. I don’t mind having white hair I love it 😊
At 68, I was tired of the dyeing process and worried about the effect on my scalp as well as crown hair loss. So I quit coloring and started taking copper and kelp supplements. My silver came in so beautifully that I started getting weekly compliments from my husband, family, friends, and strangers. My hair got very dark in the back and shiny silver on top, so I always get questions about where I have my balayage done.
My stylist didn't believe in reversible graying until she saw it in me about a year ago. My gray comes and goes and now I've got a real clue as to why. I take several grams of lecithin per day when I feel I need acetylcholine support, which isn't always. Lecithin's amino acid is - ta-daa - l-methionine, and lecithin is the only isolated source of l-methionine that I've ever taken. (As a stand-alone supplement >500mg or so, it can cause unpleasant mood alteration phenomena e.g. "unreality", deja-vu, etc.; never had this from lecithin.) Thanks so much for this clip ... this is the first real clue to this mystery that I've seen, and the first public acknowledgement that I'm not actually imagining "outgrowing" my gray hair. (Now is it also possible that l-methionine may revive dead follicles? Because it's not just my gray that comes and goes ... it's also the little pie of barenness on my scalp that fluctuates too.)
The patch of thinness could simply be form the natural cycle of hair follicles. Only about 2/3 of your hair follicles are ever active at the same time, this is why there is always some natural loss throughout your life as the follicles turn on and off and the hair drops out. So as the hair follicles in the thin area switch from active to dormant the number of them is not even and one part of cycle the area has less active follicles than at a later stage.
Do you have chronic illness issues? (Because same) I have a little streak of grey that's been there as long as I can remember and I know that I experience oxidative stress flares but I hadn't thought about taking amino acids 🤔
@@invisiblesteve9523 the streak of grey could be genetic, I forget the name of it, but some individuals have a small patch of grey hair that is there almost from birth. There was a boy the year above me at senior school that had a small spot about the size of a fingerprint on the right side of the back of his head level with his ear. He was 12 when I first met and he got bullied about it.
@@SevCaswellthe video mentions vitiligo, which can cause patches of white or grey hair wherever it appears. I know semi mechanics with vitiligo on their hands caused by (according to them) solvents that damaged melanin production in their skin.
I have seen white hair reversed with chemotherapy, when a certain old (70+) professor at the medical school developed leukemia he received chemotherapy. He then lost all of his thick white hair as a chemotherapy side effect (he was cured by the way). When his hair grew back it had the rich dark brown coloration of his youth (he went on to live into his early 90s). Presumably stem cells replenished his hair as well as those for his different white cell populations.
Since my 80 year old mother, who suffered a pulmonary injury a few years ago, started oxygen therapy using a concentrator, nearly all her hair has turned from grey/white to its original black.
I have no idea. All I can say is that she is breathing a combination of room air and O2 set at 100% at a flow rate of 3L/minute. In the beginning, she was on a ventilator for 3 weeks then weaned off and switched to O2 24/7 for 28 months. Now she is now breathing room air and supplemental O2 as needed (still no new grey hair). No supplements except for Vitamins B1 and C, usual thyroid med. No hyperbaric, only an O2 concentrator with a trach mask. No one noticed it until one of her best friends visited and asked if I colored her hair... 🤷🏻♀️
@@paranoidhumanoid I'm glad she is doing better!! Hyperbaric avoid if she has such bad lungs 🫁 as it can make worse! There are some new treatments for COPD may be worth looking at. Some supplements like omega 3 fish oil and magnesium can help with lungs and GLYNAC. My dad hair did regrow after some blood pressure medication 😃 sometimes by accident new treatments are discovered
My hair started to go back to brown from gray a few years ago. It started at the back of my head, where I couldn't see it. A few people commented about it. Gradually the color has come forward toward to the front, and dark hair is beginning to grow in my bangs.
I remember seeing my first couple of gray hairs a few days before turning 28!!!! Glad that at 32 I just have like 3 more, but still!! I see many of you saying you are fine with them, but not all of us would look their best with gray hair.
Ye at nearly 39 I have few that have become most obvious. Most people dont notice. I'm hoping it goes full white and not grey lol. I'm not gunna bother dying it.
Not that I'm suggesting this as a treatment, but my uncle needed chemotherapy for his non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He had male pattern baldness and grey hair. When it grew back in it was brown, wavy and covered his entire head for the remainder of his life. Which, by the way was for another 12 years until his 73 year. He also remained in remission for that entire period.
Something similar happened to my grandmother who was receiving chemotherapy for her cancer treatment. She was grey before that but after the treatment her hair turned back dark brown and it stayed like that untill her death years later.
I've heard about this, that drugs used to treat cancer made hair its original color. There's a guy , something English (his name), who researches a lot about losing hair and grey hair as well. I heard it from him.
I've seen videos and articles on this a few times now, and every single time you find a ton of commenters loudly replying, "YEAH WELL I LOVE MY GREY HAIR AND YOU CAN'T TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME." And it's like, okay? Then this isn't for you? Some people would like to keep the color in their hair-if that's not you, then just carry on with your life.
I always sense a fair amount of copiam from these comments. It seems to me they've spent a lot of time convincing themselves that a change they have no control over, is actually something they WANT, so it doesn't matter that they have no choice in the matter. But then you offer an alternative, and that resolve starts to waver, and they realize that maybe they aren't happy and they've been lying to themselves for so long. That's an uncomfortable feeling, and a lot of people channel this through aggression.
@@fireazaConsider also that for decades, people have been told that grey hair is a sign of aging and also that old people are seen as useless. Some people started pushing back against that idea by boldly claiming their grey hair as natural and loved. There were whole campaigns about it. So I'm not surprised that people are still doing that in relevant comment sections.
@@kashiichan Last year a coworker told me he thought I was older than his dad. Until they approve a process like this to reverse graying hair, you'll pry the bottle of hair dye from my cold dead hands.
@@kashiichan And grey hair is of course natural as compared to dyed hair. But nowadays there are people who DYE their hair grey and on some it looks stunning.
I was a redhead. Emphasis on "was." I started going blond in my 30's. Today my hair is white, but glows gold in the sunshine. My mustache is still red though, but not my beard which is fairly white. I look at least 10 years younger if I shave my face.
My mom was redheaded, my dad has brown hair. I was born blonde which slowly turned into a reddish blondy type of browny color. I'm 42 and started to notice an occasional grey hair.
I had been reading comments from women and was still in that mindset when I read your comment!! 🤣 I was like, she seems cooler than me talking about that mustache but good for her. My bad!!!
@@knownonsense2015 Hahahahaha! "Beautiful?" that's a stretch. I do look like Rutger Hauer, but more like _Hobo with a Shotgun_ Rutger Hauer than _Roy Batty_ Rutger Hauer.
@@glenngriffon8032 When I was a kid I looked like Ron Howard in _The Andy Griffith Show._ My brother on the other hand was born with white-blond hair. Today my hair is nearly white and his is dark brown with little gray. He just turned 52 and I'll be 56 in a month.
I just googled L-methionine and a study stating that it could potentially cause Alzheimer’s-like neurodegeneration made me change my mind about it. I think I’m fine with getting grays. Thanks!
Methionine is an amino acid your DNA is coded to create and it’s found in almost all protein. You got nothing to worry about when consuming it if you don’t have something that will hinder protein metabolism like kidney/liver problems or nutrient/vitamin deficiencies.
That's not what that study found. First of all, it was a study in mice. Second, they were looking at the effects of too much L-methionine when specific other factors, memory loss among them, were already present. They concluded that L-methionine toxicity, in mice with other physiological factors can cause alzheimer's-like symptoms. They actually list all the important functions and benefits of L-methionine in the paper. And also say more studies on L-methionine in animals are needed because other things could have contributed the their results.
I read about a very similar method involving getting rid of that accumulated hydrogen peroxide. This was at least 10 years ago. I saw exactly two articles on the topic. The first one talking about this revolutionary breakthrough that was going to eliminate gray hair. The next mention, not long after, was that the formula had been sold to L'Oréal, who makes hair color. Of course, that was the end of that.
Please don't do this - its lazy thinking. Rarely does a company just shutter something because it will compete with another product of theirs. They're going to try to market it and charge an arm and a leg if it works to make up for the portion of their business that is cannibalized by the new product. A product that reduced gray hair and didn't rely on dying hair would also expand their market to people that don't want to chemically dye their hair but would like to reduce their grays. Either it didn't work, or it didn't sell in test markets. Anything else doesn't make sense.
@@TamiWeiss A women invented a washing machine that catalyzed the water during operation and it could clean your laundry just as well without any detergent. The water reverted back to normal when the machine stopped so you didn't have to buy detergent so it was also great for the environment. Guess what, the detergent companies shut that down.
@@TamiWeissyou really ought to look deeper in to the number of products that have been hidden away because they would inhibit the ability to sell products. The longest standing example which I can think of is the light bulb- the filaments in the first lightbulbs ever made were made in such a way that they quite literally could not burn out. One of these first bulbs has been burning continuously in a firehouse in NYC since its creation. It was deemed unmarketable as once people bought them they would only need to buy them again if they were broken by accident, drastically limiting potential sales. To counter this the investors at the time required the inventors to make a bulb that would need replacing periodically. They instituted the earliest well known example of “Planned Obsolescence” in modern history, and companies have followed suit since. This is a well known fact.
A big trick among catalase enzyme containing supplements is that they contain green superfoods, namely CHLORELLA. The catalase is digested and therefore does nothing similar to when taking collagen. And if you want to help with re growing hair follicles go with Fucoidan which is a very safe stem cell activator, aside from using Neosporin to combat folliculitis and keep the toilet lid down to help prevent that.
Take acid folic and after a few months you will start noticing some hair back to natural colour. Have being use for some years and it works doesn't stop all the white hair but mostly and is a procedure that takes times so no rush
My hair strands go from grey to black to grey again. I have advanced rheumatoid disease so I always wondered what caused it to go from grey to black again and then back to grey
I was just writing that I experience the same thing. I have Crohn's though not RA, so maybe it's related to inflammation? Or the medication we take for it?
I don't have many but I have discovered in the past few years some strands of hair with 1-2 inch of white in the middle of the length. I have no clue why it turned the color back on. I don't have any diagnosis but I've had some hypermobility and proprioception issues throughout my life that make me suspect something is going on. Something connected to nerves and connective tissue perhaps? It's just an interesting overlap
This may be stupid but I wonder if these treatments got more advanced, people could choose their hair color? I’d love to have red hair but I don’t want to bleach my brown lol
Try a brown henna treatment. It starts out bright ginger... and gradually fades to auburn. The color diminishes so gradually that you never see any transition. Plus, your hair will absolutely love you for it! The bags of powder are only a few bucks & you will get dozens of applications. ...it also makes great temporary tattoos!
@@dollybelfiore7628henna is terrible for anyone who wants to change their hair up with any kind of regularity, and it’s extremely risky for anyone with light hair, or who might want to go lighter without going significantly shorter. The stuff is so ridiculously permanent. It can’t really be bleached out, and even if a very skilled stylist does it, there is always a risk of literally melting your hair if you attempt to re-dye it with regular dye. Also natural henna is only able to accomplish a narrow range of tones which aren’t necessarily flattering on all complexions. I personally found it horrible for me and my
I would imagine that you would need to change the colour cells, otherwise this is just keeping them going. Not saying that's NOT impossible, but probably not easy/cheap. Best is just just go grey/white naturally and then dye your hair whatever colours you want.
@@LGrian Henna is not a temporary wash/rinse product. It's plant pigment. Anyone who chemically strips/processes their hair runs a high risk of adverse reactions. Henna is a terrific all-natural product that has been used as a hair dye for thousands of years. Any hair coloring product is super sketchy on chemically treated hair. However, it works wonders on natural grey or to add tone for peeps who are afraid of committing themselves to harsh chemicals.
My silvery Gray hair gets nothing but compliments!! I've been asked where I go to get my hair done and I laugh and say "no where. it's all natural"...after seeing that they sell gray hair dye many years ago in the beauty supply store, I decided why bother coloring mine? I was never obsessed with dying my hair, so growing it out to be all gray was a painless process. Younger people are paying good $ to have their hair dyed gray, so I'm a head of the game! I'm a little lazy, so if I don't have to put in a lot of effort for something, all the better! Lol....
Silver and grey are definitely in right now. I always say grey is the new khaki.😊 But I feel like people should do what they like and prefer, whether coloring hair or shaving it or anything else in life and love for that matter. The world would be a better place if people minded their own business and lives instead of shaming and policing others.
That's so interesting! I was born with tons of silver hair mixed all through my other very dark hair (a blend of brown and black strands). I've always loved them and wouldn't get rid of them for anything! But I was a rather strange looking baby!
I started going grey at 7 and am mostly white at 47. About a year ago I started growing black hairs, not a lot, but noticeable (also I had auburn hair naturally, so black was weird). I wonder if specific melanocytes started moving around for some reason? I don't have them growing in anymore, so it must have been something specific, though I can't think what.
I started going gray at 11 yrs old. By the time I was 21, I was almost entirely gray. I hated it. My natural color was really dark brown, almost black. Every once in awhile I would find strands of hair that were striped, like brown-gray-brown-gray, all the way down. Not sure what that means.
It is normal for your natural color to darken with age - how much it darkens normally, I'm unsure of. It's related to changes in your melanin that is produced as you age. My grandmother started going grey at 18.
I read research papers on PUVAsol and hair color. The results were minimal at best. If your grey hair bothers you just dye it. There are a ton of "low chemical", and Vegan dyes on the market. In the end, just be thankful you have hair to go grey!
All hair dyes have harmful chemicals in them. Some just have less than others, but those usually don’t work as well or require a more tedious application process. Vegan means those products aren’t tested on animals. It does not mean they are less toxic.
I'm in my late 50's, almost pure white hair now and started going salt'npepper in my early 30's ..ngl, the ladies really like it 😋 only thing that annoys me about it is the lack of condition that comes with it, it's like cotton wool sometimes 🙄
Supplementing Copper keeps coming up too. I'm 53 and have a little grey. I supplement Cu+Zn daily. Still exploring the proper amount but your info is great and new to me so thx!
I had gray hair in my beard at age 25, and then it reversed back to black at age 27. My diet changed and my overall stress levels decreased… So yes I can confirm
@@Cos7mos Don't think they meant a specific diet, just likely a change in what and how they ate. Literally every activity you do is constantly changing your DNA in every cell in your body. Even reading this is changing the DNA in your neurons in your brain, as you read this and make more connections between neurons, and individual neurons fire more than others. Everything is genetic. And your DNA is constantly changing. This is scientific fact now, the public is just slow to keep up because most don't like to learn once they get out of school. I find learning as easy as eating, sleeping, drinking, or breathing, and so I don't think there's an excuse for anyone. I can't be special in that regard, because if I'm what's considered some kind of savant or genius, then we're all screwed. So go read a PubMed or NCBI article sometime, it's easy peasy to understand.
Yes it can. I started going gray in my 40's, decided to to try a Hair skin and nails supplement, 6 weeks later my Hair had all it's colour back. I've since stopped taking that supplement but have kept taking a Zinc supplement. I'm 64 now and still have most of my Hair colour. Don't take too much of course, but I take about 15 milligrams a day of it. But the Genes probably do have something to do with it. My Father never went bald and didn't go gray until he turned 70.
My mother is 74, her hair is still mostly dark brown/black. It is not as dark as it used to be, and there are some grey hairs clearly visible, but most of it is still very dark. my father on the other hand was completely grey at 19, and it looks like I inherited my mother's hair genes and my sister inherited my father's because I just turned 40 and have never found a single grey hair, but my sister started finding grey hairs in her early 20s. My sister dyes her hair constantly so it is unknown exactly how grey her hair is (she refuses to talk about it) now at 38 but I suspect she is more grey at 38 than our mother is at 74!
My grandmother was strawberry blond well into her 80s. My mom's adopted and started going gray in her 40s. My color started going in my 30s. I've been coloring mine ever since, but started getting lazy about it the last few years.
My grandmother had light brown hair right into her 70s, with just a few patches of grey (around the ears). I'm 57 and just have a few grey hairs so far.
The other day I noticed a white hair on my body in a place would rather not mention. It was my birthday and I was bummed about getting older. I plucked the grey hair out. Much to my shock, only the last half of the hair was gray. The root half had repigmented back to brown! What a gift from the universe on my bday! I was shocked because I didn’t know this was possible. I’ve had my ass kicked by various viruses over the last coup,e years and I suspect that may have prompted the hair to turn gray (I also experienced quite a lot of hair loss or telegenic effluvium).
Noticed my first grey hair age 29, I'm 38 now and since I started adding antioxidants to my regime I've noticed a decrease in the grey hair and a reversal back to dark hair in some spots. Does seem like oxidative stress can be a big factor with greying.
It is an ancient remedy to use black strap molasses to prevent and reverse green hair. I don’t understand the entire science of it… But it works. You take it internally about a tablespoon or two per day. You can mix it in with tea or coffee or you can just ingest it on a spoon or in a smoothie. Just get it in. Then you use the molasses topically as well about once, or twice a month on wash days. You make a pre-shampoo treatment out of the molasses coat, your strands let it soak in for a while before washing out and styling hair as usual. If you continue this, it will reverse or prevent your grays. Obviously depending on how great you are advanced, it’ll take some time others will see results right away. I started going gray prematurely at 16. I’m now 38 and have only seen one gray hair since my teen years.
Be careful with it, I read about it helping with gray hair, ordered it and started drinking it like recommended, I got really bad stomach aches and the condition of my gallbladder got worse, and no improvement on my gray
I stopped dying my hair at 50- It started coming in quite gray- I cut my long hair to a pixie cut and my hair came in white gray- Then oddly, it started coming back as a light brown w/ mix of gray- My hairstylist thought I had colored my hair- As my hair continued to grow, I had a mix of brown gray- more brown than gray- we couldn’t figure out what could be causing this phenomenon. The only thing I could think of was, I had started taking collagen powder for joint health- the collagen helped subdue the inflammation in my knees and ankles- About 4 months ago, I stopped taking the collagen and we notice my hair is still coming in gray-brown
Aging isn’t so bad. It’s enjoyable if you let it be. Sure, I have my insecurities about being old (I’m over 2X your age), but they won’t beat me. “Through your eyes, the Universe is perceiving itself” - Alan Watts How great is that? That and bacon. ☕️😄🥓
What’s worse than aging is vanity and the desperate lengths some people go to. Think about that ridiculous hair weave and all the money Donald Trump spends on it. Or women getting botox in their 30s because they’re so afraid of getting a wrinkle. Or Peter Thiel getting blood transfusions from children to slow the aging process.
I noticed my first gray hair at 21, after my first baby. I figured I'd go gray naturally, no dye bottles. My kids would see a gray hair and pull it, occasionally. Then, they would see either one of two things. Either the hair was gray at the tip and brown near the root or, it would be gray on both ends and brown in the middle. At one time, I thought I would be going for the Cruella DeVille look, because I had a wash of gray on the one side. It went away. Now, I think the gray hairs are just hiding behind brown ones. It's got to be something I'm eating.
I'm convinced that my greys came from hair dyeing as they are around the hairline, and I used to spend more dyeing time at those same roots. Incidentally I only dyed my hair as I accidentally bleached it with Sun-In instead of using the leave-in conditioner. So years later I have been essentially trying to revive follicles with the premise that helping the scalp and blood capillaries in it, as well as fat cells (presumably) on the scalp should help, using healthy antioxidants as well as sleeping more- Minding the liver, minding copper/ zinc balance, only having natural supplements, and trying new ways of detoxing the scalp, and all generally in order to help decrease acidification from oxidative stress. Currently, bergamot oil in earl grey tea as well as applying it to the hairs after washing my hair and detoxing the scalp using clay, is my new phase of relaxing hairs, etc. Indian medicine has a good few ideas, and I've used those ideas. I notice my hairs have different colours along them when they fall out- the grey at the root will be less on one hair than on another, and I've used henna and indigo on greys so I feel like it has increased and decreased bulges. I only use henna once or twice per year, and take natural b complex vitamins, as well as avoid fortified processed foods which would deplete the ability to reset after oxidative stress. Scalp massage is also good, as is facial massage. General relaxation should help, although I have pain problems so it is a struggle. I've heard through YT videos that it takes 1000+ days to reverse greying, but I don't know if that includes hair dye damage.
My father suffered from kidney stones; a suggested preventive was a specific vitamin-mineral combination. One day I noticed that part of his silver hair was apparently being dyed. Taking a second look, his hair was its’ original color close to his scalp, and silver starting 1/2 an inch out from his scalp. The supplement had the effect of returning his natural color.
@@JuliaShalomJordan - B6 and magnesium. Moderate doses (especially the magnesium!). I wish I remembered the specifics. I didn’t list them initially for fear I might start one of those moronic ‘if a little is good, pounds and pounds would be better’ things that seem to sweep the planet every couple of weeks, doing heaven knows how much damage. Good luck!
I had mousy coloured hair. Neither straight nor curly. Not thick. Didnt even grow bellow shoulder length. But it went grey beautifully. Not sure how but suddenly started getting other middle aged ladies in the hair dresser's complementing me on my hair. So I'll keep my grey hair thankyou It matches my older skin as well.
I was actually expecting them to touch on catalase which is naturally occuring but some people suppliment with it to help with grey hair. It is the "star ingredient " of a lot of grey hair pills
@MedievalFantasyTV you are too naive. Knowledge is important. Catalase you take from pills will be completely destroyed in the guts and won't be absorbed. Waste of money. Listen, supplement companies are just looking to make money off desperate people. Always remember this
man, i can't wait to have gray hair. i think it looks SO cool. my grandma has this brilliant pure snow white hair like the lady at 4:15 and i hope mine will be like that.
This is completely beside the subject of this video, but I'm glad that SciShow has, in most of their recent videos (like the last year or so, maybe), picked up on the fact that their start- and ending-jingle used to be far too loud. It took a while, but they got there, which is nice. Also, the subject of this video is rather interesting. I don't know much about biology, so there's a lot about our cellular biology that continues to amaze me.
I never noticed my grey hair until it was visible in the age of 13 and I got a lot of stress and I was depressed 🫥 of it as it was a little embarrassing to have grey in this age and now I'm 15 I still have them I'm having homeopathy treatment and I know I can't reverse it but can slow it down . In my school 6 to 7 more children are having grey hair and and standard 6 child is having his hair all grey 😮 I don't know if it is possible but I believe we can slow it down If you have them too don't worry you'll never die cause of it it's painless and be in a circumstance where people don't care about your hair ❤
I started going grey a few years ago, then I heard about some of the aging research being done by dr Sinclair... That sent me down the rabbit hole and I completely overhauled my diet.. since then all my grey hair has completely disappeared!.. not sure if it's one thing or a mix of factors but the results have been pretty spectacular... It's like I hit the rewind button on the aging process... my god is it ever complicated though! Holy Cr*p!!.. amino acids all need to be in the right ratios, almost every vitamin interferes with the absorption of others, and then even if it increases bioavailability, things like vitamin C and iron taken together can actually create ROS and can actually cause more harm than good.. especially to your kidneys... Get it all right though and the transformation is astounding...
It's wild how thie varies. I only started getting gray hair maybe 2 years ago in my 30's and it's petty minimal. I have friends who were full salt and pepper in thier mid 20's
My hair started turning gray when I was around 43. I don’t really mind. One good thing is I still have all my hair. A family trait enables me to continue to have all my hair. I feel blessed to have all my hair. So I’m good.
I have black hair and started graying at 15, but it progressed very slowly until I had kids. Each kid made me much grayer. Now I can dye my hair fun colors! Right now it's blue. Nice to not have to use bleach. I do see strands turn from gray to black, but overall the gray is winning.
Please may I ask the name of the hair dyes? In my experience Directions (UK brand) and Joico both cover but fade in a few weeks. Schwarzkopf Vivid Live colours last a really long time but don't cover grey hair. Thank you.
My hair will go gray then go back to blonde after I overcome the stressful situation I'm in at the time. My grandmother was the same. She never dyed her hair but on occasions it was salt & pepper then it would be black again. I didn't realize it was a family trait till it started happening to me.
There have been verifiable cases of minoxidil re-pigmenting hair in hair loss patients. I was sure that would be mentioned here. (It can also go the other way, and reduce pigment).
At her 70th birthday party, my mum had less than a quarter of the grey hair than I did at 35. Her brother's kids all got blessed with the "won't go grey" gene, but apparently I didn't. I got Granny's hot Irish temper instead. The hair gene would have been more useful. 🤦🏻♀️
Love your comment This leads to a conundrum, stress/temper versus the genetic code ?. My grandmother never combed a grey hair and lived to almost 80. But in those days most women drank a daily bottle of Guinness which might have things like copper and other nutrients conducive to good melanin. I also had an Accountant who also never combed a grey hair. He also may have had his Guinness regularly. Head massage is very likely a good thing for the folicles.
I don’t what WHAT I did but during a smoothie cleanse/supplement kick, I saw one of my shed hairs that was half gray/half black. The black was near the root bulb! I couldn’t believe it??? I don’t think the cleanse had anything to do with it since it had clearly grown out for a bit. I don’t dye my hair or have mixed colors…really interesting
My mom had put her over/under for my hair going grey at 30, since she started early. I'm 42 and can sometimes see a single unpigmented (they seem entirely white) hair poking out here and there. Even I'm surprised, especially with all the chemo and radiation I've been through - total body irradiation damages all of your hair follicles and stopped some from working entirely. My hair's fallen out 4 different times, damaged follicles, and the system stress all add up...I expected it to happen earlier and more quickly. I don't mind either way, I just think it's interesting that what little melanin I have (in the remaining functional hair follicles) just keeps on truckin'.
I feel so much better now seeing so many comments about people going gray in their teen age years… I don’t know anyone personally that went gray prematurely, I always thought something had gone really wrong with me.
This makes me wonder if stem cell movement plays factors in other aspects of aging. I hope this might lead to future treatments that allow us to heal like we did when we were kids, or have the same energy level!
My 70 year old mother, who had an almost full head of gray hair, started eating black garlic on a regular basis, and her hair is more black than gray now.
In other comments I read about genetics so I'm kind of split on that. I'm 47 and yes, you can see some gray hairs but from afar I'm still pitch black. My older sister, however, started dying her hair at 37 while my older brother was nearly white in the middle with a black circle around at 45. My mother, on the other hand, at the age of 55 had never dyed her hair and didn't look gray at all. We're Afro-Latino by the way. Or rather, half, because the other half (our father) is white. In skin color, I was always the darkest of us three and I had more of our mother's looks. Maybe that's why, like her, I barely turn gray in comparison to my siblings?
Really interesting. I've always wondered what's keeping my 71 year old dad's hair from graying. He has very few grays, compared to his younger brothers who are almost all gray. Maybe there's something that affects l-methionine.
My great aunt still has some colour to her hair, and she's nearly 110. Though her sister went grey fast. Though my mum still has a fair bit of her natural colour in her hair, in her mid 70's. And I've only in recent years got noticeable patches of white on my sideburns. Which annoys my brother since he wanted the doctor strange white streaks.
hmm I think grey hair is simply bacteria that likes to feed on the follicles that generate hair color, if you kill off that bacteria using ethyl alcohol your hair will go from grey to your original hair color... worked for me, I have photo's of my hair half grey and half original color... yeah it looked weird but I was happy. unfortunately not the same story for white hair, but you just need to pluck them and hope they re-grow.
I have a lot of white hairs, but I actually have hairs that go from dark to white and back... white at the tip but brown at the root. And sometimes I find ones that even go brown, then white, and then brown again... so I have no clue what is going on.
Coincidentally, as a kid I always got the occasional colorless strand, and they always seemed to be stress related. Rough week and I'd notice a clear strand on my face or scalp. They would break very easily and would seem to stop/go away when I got good sleep. Now that I'm older I probably have 100 or so normal grays. But, when I get good sleep, they seem to reduce. I do take a multivitamin that contains L-Methionine. I wish I could be scientific about it and monitor a patch of my scalp, but that would be too much work.
I started turning gray in my head hairs (the beard started a decade earlier) just before I turned 40, when my Mom had none at 65. To this day, I'm 53 and she is 78, and still has less gray hair than I do, despite the fact I still don't have a lot of it.
I turned grey within weeks of getting covid in early 2020! Some people just get them far too early! I see teens sith grey hair this days and im starting to think the environment plays a role! The same goes for hair loss
they sprayed something in the air bcuz even though I wasn't around people i was outside everyday dealing with my dogs. I still got sick and suddenly developed an autoimmune disorder. suffering pain and swelling in muscles, joints and organs and 4 months suddenly started dropping weight even though i was still eating. lost about 40lbs over 2-3 months. my body was shutting down! cld hardly walk or dress myself some days. my father also had similar symptoms but wasn't outside as much as me. we both tested negative for covid with the bs tests. we both developed the constant phlegm in the throat early in 2020 around march/april. that's all had before all hell broke loose on my body. went through almost every kind of doctors over 6-8 month period. finally went to the cleveland clinic in 2021 when i could travel and after looking at my chart of issues and symptoms over the last year the first questions the doctors asked was did i have covid and i said according to the docs i saw early on NO. then his next question was which vaccine did i take? two different specialists i saw asked me the same questions. which set off a alarm in my head. they knew those jabs was causing lots of issues in people. but the kicker is I never got any shots and wasn't around anyone who was sick with covid or anything when my issues started. even one of my dogs was sick which tells me something was being sprayed through the air, maybe some bacteria . that's my theory! I was actively working out, cycling, swimming etc when this all happened too soo yeah.
One of the components of creatine is l-methionine and creatine is readily-available. Not only that, but more research is finding that people probably should be supplementing with creatine (especially if they don't eat eggs and meat) for better brain function. That plus exercise and a keto-type of diet goes a long way in slowing graying and many other factors that we think of as being age-related.
The hair on my head seems to be stable for now at 38 years old but about 2-3 years ago a few odd white hairs started showing up around the chin in my beard. Those 3-5 hairs have now turned into visible clumps still constrained to the same area, interestingly all close to an old scar from a childhood incident that required stitches. I really don't mind it just curious to see how it progresses, the loss of hair coverage at the top of my head is slightly more of a nuisance but I've eventually accepted that I need to apply sunscreen there too now or consistently wear a hat on days with enough UV radiation. Being male and knowing the hair patterns of most men on my moms side of the family I'm not surprised at all (both living and those in old photos).
I have a condition called Pernicious Anemia which made me get a bunch of new greys in my 20s and then slowed down once i got treatment. (I've had at least some since around 12 years of age.) I which I could go all the way grey faster without the anemia. I'll just have to wait.
I currently have 1 strand of hair that was completely white (on my bangs). Somehow a few months later, from the root towards the middle was black and from the middle to the end was white. So it went from black to white to black again. 🤷🏽♀️
Pretty much everything comes down to your genes. Your hair and skin color, your appetite, your personality, your reactions to things, almost everything.
My entire family’s hair turns gray by 35 & completely white by 50. Most of them dye their hair regularly. On my father’s side, male pattern balding starts at age 35. When I turned 35, I said out loud that if my hair starts to recede & turn white then LET IT. It’s not like I can stop it anyway. Then…….at 42 years old, my entire crown is still thick & jet black. The one person who wasn’t scared of the familial age-related hair patterns is still enjoying a natural unaltered crown. 😂😂
My mum went grey in her teens, my dad was well into middle-age to age before he did. I've taken after my dad, 53 and although I do have some grey hair you need to really look for it to find it. Sadly though I have lost a lot of tge red pigment I had from my dads side of the family
Reminds me... I had a silly conversation with ChatGPT, lamenting the fact that my head-hair hasn't turned grey yet (...there are some grey face whiskers). GPT was very sympathetic, and encouraged me to start up a support group for others in the same situation :D
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Sometimes my grey hairs go away with a healthier diet :)
Do you know if polyester or elastane headwear can contribute to this problem? I ask because it is said that wearing underwear made of synthetic material negatively affects reproduction and is endocrine disrupting due to the static generated by the fibres as this was tested on dogs. I wondered if the static from synthetic headwear such as elasticated head bands could cause the stem cell to become stuck since static creates a disruption in the balance of ions.
good content, but your voice is stressy.
I started going grey at 11 and was completely grey by 14. I dyed my hair for years but now (I’m 54) I can’t be bothered. My mum was the same so genetics certainly does have a lot to do with it.
That's so cool though!
We found him, the main character
@@spindash64 nah, that's the side character with the mysterious, tragic backstory that dies in the end. main character gets the pink stuff :p
@@3possumsinatrenchcoat naw, main character just gets Unique Hair Colour And/Or Style. It can be Pink, it can be Silver, it can be Blue, it can be anything as long as it isn't a standard haircut in brown black or blonde
Our family has this. My mom was all white by the time she was thirty. Now she’s 50+ and has a halo like bright white head of hair. My younger brother is almost all gray now and he’s 30 too. Younger sister colors her hair black so it’s hard to see how much white she has. I’m the last to go white and I have a big strand of white along my right forehead. It’s kinda coool. I don’t mind having white hair I love it 😊
I ain't here cause I'm grey or anything
Alright, Targaryen 😜
Same. 😉
It's for a guy I know in Canada.
Yea same here. I'm just watching this video for a friend
Me neither
At 68, I was tired of the dyeing process and worried about the effect on my scalp as well as crown hair loss. So I quit coloring and started taking copper and kelp supplements. My silver came in so beautifully that I started getting weekly compliments from my husband, family, friends, and strangers. My hair got very dark in the back and shiny silver on top, so I always get questions about where I have my balayage done.
My stylist didn't believe in reversible graying until she saw it in me about a year ago. My gray comes and goes and now I've got a real clue as to why. I take several grams of lecithin per day when I feel I need acetylcholine support, which isn't always. Lecithin's amino acid is - ta-daa - l-methionine, and lecithin is the only isolated source of l-methionine that I've ever taken. (As a stand-alone supplement >500mg or so, it can cause unpleasant mood alteration phenomena e.g. "unreality", deja-vu, etc.; never had this from lecithin.) Thanks so much for this clip ... this is the first real clue to this mystery that I've seen, and the first public acknowledgement that I'm not actually imagining "outgrowing" my gray hair. (Now is it also possible that l-methionine may revive dead follicles? Because it's not just my gray that comes and goes ... it's also the little pie of barenness on my scalp that fluctuates too.)
ELI5?
The patch of thinness could simply be form the natural cycle of hair follicles. Only about 2/3 of your hair follicles are ever active at the same time, this is why there is always some natural loss throughout your life as the follicles turn on and off and the hair drops out. So as the hair follicles in the thin area switch from active to dormant the number of them is not even and one part of cycle the area has less active follicles than at a later stage.
Do you have chronic illness issues? (Because same) I have a little streak of grey that's been there as long as I can remember and I know that I experience oxidative stress flares but I hadn't thought about taking amino acids 🤔
@@invisiblesteve9523 the streak of grey could be genetic, I forget the name of it, but some individuals have a small patch of grey hair that is there almost from birth. There was a boy the year above me at senior school that had a small spot about the size of a fingerprint on the right side of the back of his head level with his ear. He was 12 when I first met and he got bullied about it.
@@SevCaswellthe video mentions vitiligo, which can cause patches of white or grey hair wherever it appears. I know semi mechanics with vitiligo on their hands caused by (according to them) solvents that damaged melanin production in their skin.
I'm not worried about gray hair, I just want to keep my hair. We need to fix balding asap
finasteride
probably high on the list, we already have blue pills
This
I'd like to keep my hair; just not the ones on my chin 😂.
@@maiaallman4635 😂😂 hell yes!!!
I have seen white hair reversed with chemotherapy, when a certain old (70+) professor at the medical school developed leukemia he received chemotherapy. He then lost all of his thick white hair as a chemotherapy side effect (he was cured by the way). When his hair grew back it had the rich dark brown coloration of his youth (he went on to live into his early 90s). Presumably stem cells replenished his hair as well as those for his different white cell populations.
Since my 80 year old mother, who suffered a pulmonary injury a few years ago, started oxygen therapy using a concentrator, nearly all her hair has turned from grey/white to its original black.
What would be the mechanism of action at play here?
@@user-fw7nm4pm3r yes! Inquiring minds want to know!
@@DawnDavidsonMaybe hyperbaric oxygen therapy may help because it helps stem cells and is proven to reverse aging even in recent research
I have no idea. All I can say is that she is breathing a combination of room air and O2 set at 100% at a flow rate of 3L/minute. In the beginning, she was on a ventilator for 3 weeks then weaned off and switched to O2 24/7 for 28 months. Now she is now breathing room air and supplemental O2 as needed (still no new grey hair). No supplements except for Vitamins B1 and C, usual thyroid med. No hyperbaric, only an O2 concentrator with a trach mask. No one noticed it until one of her best friends visited and asked if I colored her hair... 🤷🏻♀️
@@paranoidhumanoid I'm glad she is doing better!! Hyperbaric avoid if she has such bad lungs 🫁 as it can make worse! There are some new treatments for COPD may be worth looking at. Some supplements like omega 3 fish oil and magnesium can help with lungs and GLYNAC. My dad hair did regrow after some blood pressure medication 😃 sometimes by accident new treatments are discovered
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My hair started to go back to brown from gray a few years ago. It started at the back of my head, where I couldn't see it. A few people commented about it. Gradually the color has come forward toward to the front, and dark hair is beginning to grow in my bangs.
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Grey hair is caused by a deficiency in zinc or copper
What did you use?
@@naieraelhussein1462 I hadn't used anything. Not sure what happened.
Yes solution is to comes food rich in copper @@indz7775
I remember seeing my first couple of gray hairs a few days before turning 28!!!!
Glad that at 32 I just have like 3 more, but still!! I see many of you saying you are fine with them, but not all of us would look their best with gray hair.
Ye at nearly 39 I have few that have become most obvious. Most people dont notice. I'm hoping it goes full white and not grey lol. I'm not gunna bother dying it.
@@HumbleBee123 my boyfriend has gray/silver hair and it's beautiful, but my own "gray" hair is white
Not that I'm suggesting this as a treatment, but my uncle needed chemotherapy for his non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He had male pattern baldness and grey hair. When it grew back in it was brown, wavy and covered his entire head for the remainder of his life. Which, by the way was for another 12 years until his 73 year. He also remained in remission for that entire period.
Interesting. Usually, the waviness goes away after a while.
Likely cause those dead cells were killed by the chemo and cell turnover occurred.
After my Sister's chemo, her hair came back Gray. She was a natural Dirty Blonde.
Something similar happened to my grandmother who was receiving chemotherapy for her cancer treatment. She was grey before that but after the treatment her hair turned back dark brown and it stayed like that untill her death years later.
I've heard about this, that drugs used to treat cancer made hair its original color. There's a guy , something English (his name), who researches a lot about losing hair and grey hair as well. I heard it from him.
I've seen videos and articles on this a few times now, and every single time you find a ton of commenters loudly replying, "YEAH WELL I LOVE MY GREY HAIR AND YOU CAN'T TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME." And it's like, okay? Then this isn't for you? Some people would like to keep the color in their hair-if that's not you, then just carry on with your life.
Truer words were never spoken🙄😌
I always sense a fair amount of copiam from these comments. It seems to me they've spent a lot of time convincing themselves that a change they have no control over, is actually something they WANT, so it doesn't matter that they have no choice in the matter. But then you offer an alternative, and that resolve starts to waver, and they realize that maybe they aren't happy and they've been lying to themselves for so long. That's an uncomfortable feeling, and a lot of people channel this through aggression.
@@fireazaConsider also that for decades, people have been told that grey hair is a sign of aging and also that old people are seen as useless. Some people started pushing back against that idea by boldly claiming their grey hair as natural and loved. There were whole campaigns about it. So I'm not surprised that people are still doing that in relevant comment sections.
@@kashiichan Last year a coworker told me he thought I was older than his dad. Until they approve a process like this to reverse graying hair, you'll pry the bottle of hair dye from my cold dead hands.
@@kashiichan And grey hair is of course natural as compared to dyed hair. But nowadays there are people who DYE their hair grey and on some it looks stunning.
My hair has been pure silver since I was 17 - was originally black. I see nothing to reverse and I love my hair.
I would love to have it like that, and I am really jealous! ❤️
I'd Love to be a silver fox but I'm not sure if i can get there quick
Same here!
It's like the plot of some anime. Seriously.
same
I was a redhead. Emphasis on "was." I started going blond in my 30's. Today my hair is white, but glows gold in the sunshine. My mustache is still red though, but not my beard which is fairly white. I look at least 10 years younger if I shave my face.
My mom was redheaded, my dad has brown hair. I was born blonde which slowly turned into a reddish blondy type of browny color.
I'm 42 and started to notice an occasional grey hair.
You sound beautiful! That sounds sooooo awesome!
I had been reading comments from women and was still in that mindset when I read your comment!! 🤣 I was like, she seems cooler than me talking about that mustache but good for her. My bad!!!
@@knownonsense2015 Hahahahaha! "Beautiful?" that's a stretch. I do look like Rutger Hauer, but more like _Hobo with a Shotgun_ Rutger Hauer than _Roy Batty_ Rutger Hauer.
@@glenngriffon8032 When I was a kid I looked like Ron Howard in _The Andy Griffith Show._ My brother on the other hand was born with white-blond hair. Today my hair is nearly white and his is dark brown with little gray. He just turned 52 and I'll be 56 in a month.
I just googled L-methionine and a study stating that it could potentially cause Alzheimer’s-like neurodegeneration made me change my mind about it. I think I’m fine with getting grays. Thanks!
beauty is pain...
Thank you!
Methionine is an amino acid your DNA is coded to create and it’s found in almost all protein. You got nothing to worry about when consuming it if you don’t have something that will hinder protein metabolism like kidney/liver problems or nutrient/vitamin deficiencies.
That's not what that study found.
First of all, it was a study in mice. Second, they were looking at the effects of too much L-methionine when specific other factors, memory loss among them, were already present. They concluded that L-methionine toxicity, in mice with other physiological factors can cause alzheimer's-like symptoms.
They actually list all the important functions and benefits of L-methionine in the paper. And also say more studies on L-methionine in animals are needed because other things could have contributed the their results.
Dose makes the poison
I read about a very similar method involving getting rid of that accumulated hydrogen peroxide. This was at least 10 years ago. I saw exactly two articles on the topic. The first one talking about this revolutionary breakthrough that was going to eliminate gray hair.
The next mention, not long after, was that the formula had been sold to L'Oréal, who makes hair color.
Of course, that was the end of that.
Please don't do this - its lazy thinking. Rarely does a company just shutter something because it will compete with another product of theirs. They're going to try to market it and charge an arm and a leg if it works to make up for the portion of their business that is cannibalized by the new product. A product that reduced gray hair and didn't rely on dying hair would also expand their market to people that don't want to chemically dye their hair but would like to reduce their grays. Either it didn't work, or it didn't sell in test markets. Anything else doesn't make sense.
@@TamiWeiss Do what? I'm just stating facts. Don't believe me? I don't care. It doesn't change what happened.
@@TamiWeiss A women invented a washing machine that catalyzed the water during operation and it could clean your laundry just as well without any detergent. The water reverted back to normal when the machine stopped so you didn't have to buy detergent so it was also great for the environment. Guess what, the detergent companies shut that down.
@@TamiWeissyou really ought to look deeper in to the number of products that have been hidden away because they would inhibit the ability to sell products. The longest standing example which I can think of is the light bulb- the filaments in the first lightbulbs ever made were made in such a way that they quite literally could not burn out. One of these first bulbs has been burning continuously in a firehouse in NYC since its creation. It was deemed unmarketable as once people bought them they would only need to buy them again if they were broken by accident, drastically limiting potential sales. To counter this the investors at the time required the inventors to make a bulb that would need replacing periodically. They instituted the earliest well known example of “Planned Obsolescence” in modern history, and companies have followed suit since. This is a well known fact.
@@TamiWeissKodak found out how to make digital camera in the 80s but kept quiet about it because they wanted to sell film cameras.
A big trick among catalase enzyme containing supplements is that they contain green superfoods, namely CHLORELLA. The catalase is digested and therefore does nothing similar to when taking collagen. And if you want to help with re growing hair follicles go with Fucoidan which is a very safe stem cell activator, aside from using Neosporin to combat folliculitis and keep the toilet lid down to help prevent that.
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Take acid folic and after a few months you will start noticing some hair back to natural colour. Have being use for some years and it works doesn't stop all the white hair but mostly and is a procedure that takes times so no rush
Do you mean folic acid?
@@90nadz yesss and now I am taking zinc and chelated copper but don't take them together like one week zinc another copper
My daily vitamin has folate in it. It says:
665 mcg DFE
(400mcg folic acid)
It taking more overkill?
@@MsIlovemusic07what vitamin is that?
My hair strands go from grey to black to grey again. I have advanced rheumatoid disease so I always wondered what caused it to go from grey to black again and then back to grey
I was just writing that I experience the same thing. I have Crohn's though not RA, so maybe it's related to inflammation? Or the medication we take for it?
@@KatharineOsborne hmm so interesting. How are u feeling?
I don't have many but I have discovered in the past few years some strands of hair with 1-2 inch of white in the middle of the length. I have no clue why it turned the color back on. I don't have any diagnosis but I've had some hypermobility and proprioception issues throughout my life that make me suspect something is going on. Something connected to nerves and connective tissue perhaps? It's just an interesting overlap
Kids can cause that. :P
I have rheumatoid as well and have seen my hair do this as well. Black to clear white to black again. Wild.
This may be stupid but I wonder if these treatments got more advanced, people could choose their hair color? I’d love to have red hair but I don’t want to bleach my brown lol
Try a brown henna treatment. It starts out bright ginger... and gradually fades to auburn. The color diminishes so gradually that you never see any transition. Plus, your hair will absolutely love you for it! The bags of powder are only a few bucks & you will get dozens of applications. ...it also makes great temporary tattoos!
@@dollybelfiore7628henna is terrible for anyone who wants to change their hair up with any kind of regularity, and it’s extremely risky for anyone with light hair, or who might want to go lighter without going significantly shorter. The stuff is so ridiculously permanent. It can’t really be bleached out, and even if a very skilled stylist does it, there is always a risk of literally melting your hair if you attempt to re-dye it with regular dye.
Also natural henna is only able to accomplish a narrow range of tones which aren’t necessarily flattering on all complexions. I personally found it horrible for me and my
I would imagine that you would need to change the colour cells, otherwise this is just keeping them going. Not saying that's NOT impossible, but probably not easy/cheap. Best is just just go grey/white naturally and then dye your hair whatever colours you want.
@@LGrian Henna is not a temporary wash/rinse product. It's plant pigment. Anyone who chemically strips/processes their hair runs a high risk of adverse reactions. Henna is a terrific all-natural product that has been used as a hair dye for thousands of years. Any hair coloring product is super sketchy on chemically treated hair. However, it works wonders on natural grey or to add tone for peeps who are afraid of committing themselves to harsh chemicals.
If your hair was darker it might be possible to get red, if blond probably not
My silvery Gray hair gets nothing but compliments!! I've been asked where I go to get my hair done and I laugh and say "no where. it's all natural"...after seeing that they sell gray hair dye many years ago in the beauty supply store, I decided why bother coloring mine? I was never obsessed with dying my hair, so growing it out to be all gray was a painless process. Younger people are paying good $ to have their hair dyed gray, so I'm a head of the game! I'm a little lazy, so if I don't have to put in a lot of effort for something, all the better! Lol....
I have dark hair with shiny silver strands and it just looks greasy due to the light reflection on the silver. I color mine and love it.
I've been asked a number of times who bleaches my hair. 😅😂🤣😂🤣😂😅
I see what you did there. "a head" of the game 😂
Silver and grey are definitely in right now. I always say grey is the new khaki.😊 But I feel like people should do what they like and prefer, whether coloring hair or shaving it or anything else in life and love for that matter. The world would be a better place if people minded their own business and lives instead of shaming and policing others.
🤣🤣 me too!
That's so interesting! I was born with tons of silver hair mixed all through my other very dark hair (a blend of brown and black strands). I've always loved them and wouldn't get rid of them for anything! But I was a rather strange looking baby!
I started going grey at 7 and am mostly white at 47. About a year ago I started growing black hairs, not a lot, but noticeable (also I had auburn hair naturally, so black was weird). I wonder if specific melanocytes started moving around for some reason? I don't have them growing in anymore, so it must have been something specific, though I can't think what.
I started going gray at 11 yrs old. By the time I was 21, I was almost entirely gray. I hated it. My natural color was really dark brown, almost black. Every once in awhile I would find strands of hair that were striped, like brown-gray-brown-gray, all the way down. Not sure what that means.
It is normal for your natural color to darken with age - how much it darkens normally, I'm unsure of. It's related to changes in your melanin that is produced as you age. My grandmother started going grey at 18.
what was your diet like then compared to now?
I read research papers on PUVAsol and hair color. The results were minimal at best. If your grey hair bothers you just dye it. There are a ton of "low chemical", and Vegan dyes on the market. In the end, just be thankful you have hair to go grey!
All hair dyes have harmful chemicals in them. Some just have less than others, but those usually don’t work as well or require a more tedious application process. Vegan means those products aren’t tested on animals. It does not mean they are less toxic.
I'm in my late 50's, almost pure white hair now and started going salt'npepper in my early 30's ..ngl, the ladies really like it 😋 only thing that annoys me about it is the lack of condition that comes with it, it's like cotton wool sometimes 🙄
Supplementing Copper keeps coming up too. I'm 53 and have a little grey. I supplement Cu+Zn daily. Still exploring the proper amount but your info is great and new to me so thx!
Is that copper and zinc? Any good results yet?
@@BondJames-o4c I would like to know too
you know im 20 and a good fifth of my hair is already gray but i think it looks great, despite the weird comments i sometimes get
Cool
There are things much worse to worry about
I had gray hair in my beard at age 25, and then it reversed back to black at age 27. My diet changed and my overall stress levels decreased… So yes I can confirm
What diet you took ?
@@Cos7mos Don't think they meant a specific diet, just likely a change in what and how they ate. Literally every activity you do is constantly changing your DNA in every cell in your body. Even reading this is changing the DNA in your neurons in your brain, as you read this and make more connections between neurons, and individual neurons fire more than others. Everything is genetic. And your DNA is constantly changing. This is scientific fact now, the public is just slow to keep up because most don't like to learn once they get out of school. I find learning as easy as eating, sleeping, drinking, or breathing, and so I don't think there's an excuse for anyone. I can't be special in that regard, because if I'm what's considered some kind of savant or genius, then we're all screwed. So go read a PubMed or NCBI article sometime, it's easy peasy to understand.
It happened to me what time to.
I’ve had individual strands that start out grey and then turn brown at the follicle. So, yes, it does happen.
@@Cos7mosI doubt this person will ever reply again to any of the questions here about their comment
Yes it can. I started going gray in my 40's, decided to to try a Hair skin and nails supplement, 6 weeks later my Hair had all it's colour back. I've since stopped taking that supplement but have kept taking a Zinc supplement. I'm 64 now and still have most of my Hair colour. Don't take too much of course, but I take about 15 milligrams a day of it. But the Genes probably do have something to do with it. My Father never went bald and didn't go gray until he turned 70.
@user-rw7cr3px3g I'm not lying. I'm just about to turn 65 and still got most of my Hair colour, there's a few grays but not many.
My mother is 74, her hair is still mostly dark brown/black. It is not as dark as it used to be, and there are some grey hairs clearly visible, but most of it is still very dark. my father on the other hand was completely grey at 19, and it looks like I inherited my mother's hair genes and my sister inherited my father's because I just turned 40 and have never found a single grey hair, but my sister started finding grey hairs in her early 20s. My sister dyes her hair constantly so it is unknown exactly how grey her hair is (she refuses to talk about it) now at 38 but I suspect she is more grey at 38 than our mother is at 74!
My grandmother was strawberry blond well into her 80s. My mom's adopted and started going gray in her 40s. My color started going in my 30s. I've been coloring mine ever since, but started getting lazy about it the last few years.
My dad was like that, though he only made it to his late 60s. The bald spot, however, that was impressive by his early 30s.
so basically it's all genetic, I wish we all had our normal hair until actually old
My grandmother had light brown hair right into her 70s, with just a few patches of grey (around the ears). I'm 57 and just have a few grey hairs so far.
i occassionally have random hairs that start off white that suddenly regain color at some point. super weird.
This usually happen to me when im stressed out
Same
Same. They really seem clear. But, I don't look that closely anymore.
Look at the explanation provided in the video, those melanocytes probably got moving again 👍🏼
The other day I noticed a white hair on my body in a place would rather not mention. It was my birthday and I was bummed about getting older. I plucked the grey hair out. Much to my shock, only the last half of the hair was gray. The root half had repigmented back to brown! What a gift from the universe on my bday!
I was shocked because I didn’t know this was possible. I’ve had my ass kicked by various viruses over the last coup,e years and I suspect that may have prompted the hair to turn gray (I also experienced quite a lot of hair loss or telegenic effluvium).
Is it still that way today?
Noticed my first grey hair age 29, I'm 38 now and since I started adding antioxidants to my regime I've noticed a decrease in the grey hair and a reversal back to dark hair in some spots. Does seem like oxidative stress can be a big factor with greying.
which ones are you adding?
@@vincenzoflaminio4340 vitamins A, C and E.
To your diet? Antioxidants.
@@SilentCyborg11 just want to know if you are taking supplements or is just the diet
@Gaz12345 is it supplements ? Or fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices- healthy diet ??
Amazing video! The Cookie Cat shirt brought it all together!
It is an ancient remedy to use black strap molasses to prevent and reverse green hair. I don’t understand the entire science of it… But it works. You take it internally about a tablespoon or two per day. You can mix it in with tea or coffee or you can just ingest it on a spoon or in a smoothie. Just get it in. Then you use the molasses topically as well about once, or twice a month on wash days. You make a pre-shampoo treatment out of the molasses coat, your strands let it soak in for a while before washing out and styling hair as usual. If you continue this, it will reverse or prevent your grays. Obviously depending on how great you are advanced, it’ll take some time others will see results right away. I started going gray prematurely at 16. I’m now 38 and have only seen one gray hair since my teen years.
Does it really work? How long I should use Blac strap molasses with tea? Where could I buy this? Pls reply😢
Yes, I'd like to reverse my green hair! 😂
Pre shampoo treatment recipe?
Be careful with it, I read about it helping with gray hair, ordered it and started drinking it like recommended, I got really bad stomach aches and the condition of my gallbladder got worse, and no improvement on my gray
I stopped dying my hair at 50- It started coming in quite gray- I cut my long hair to a pixie cut and my hair came in white gray- Then oddly, it started coming back as a light brown w/ mix of gray- My hairstylist thought I had colored my hair- As my hair continued to grow, I had a mix of brown gray- more brown than gray- we couldn’t figure out what could be causing this phenomenon. The only thing I could think of was, I had started taking collagen powder for joint health- the collagen helped subdue the inflammation in my knees and ankles- About 4 months ago, I stopped taking the collagen and we notice my hair is still coming in gray-brown
Im 27 and terrified of aging, and also fascinated with some of the new medical research into aging and reversing it.
Aging isn’t so bad. It’s enjoyable if you let it be. Sure, I have my insecurities about being old (I’m over 2X your age), but they won’t beat me.
“Through your eyes, the Universe is perceiving itself” - Alan Watts
How great is that? That and bacon. ☕️😄🥓
What’s worse than aging is vanity and the desperate lengths some people go to. Think about that ridiculous hair weave and all the money Donald Trump spends on it. Or women getting botox in their 30s because they’re so afraid of getting a wrinkle. Or Peter Thiel getting blood transfusions from children to slow the aging process.
AGING IS LIBERATING. You will see.
If you are terrified of it, then eat healthy and exercise just about every day or you will have something to be scared of
This is so much important than flying to Mars.
I noticed my first gray hair at 21, after my first baby. I figured I'd go gray naturally, no dye bottles. My kids would see a gray hair and pull it, occasionally. Then, they would see either one of two things. Either the hair was gray at the tip and brown near the root or, it would be gray on both ends and brown in the middle. At one time, I thought I would be going for the Cruella DeVille look, because I had a wash of gray on the one side. It went away. Now, I think the gray hairs are just hiding behind brown ones. It's got to be something I'm eating.
So how did you treated your hairs? Did it went back to black/brown?
I'm convinced that my greys came from hair dyeing as they are around the hairline, and I used to spend more dyeing time at those same roots. Incidentally I only dyed my hair as I accidentally bleached it with Sun-In instead of using the leave-in conditioner. So years later I have been essentially trying to revive follicles with the premise that helping the scalp and blood capillaries in it, as well as fat cells (presumably) on the scalp should help, using healthy antioxidants as well as sleeping more- Minding the liver, minding copper/ zinc balance, only having natural supplements, and trying new ways of detoxing the scalp, and all generally in order to help decrease acidification from oxidative stress. Currently, bergamot oil in earl grey tea as well as applying it to the hairs after washing my hair and detoxing the scalp using clay, is my new phase of relaxing hairs, etc. Indian medicine has a good few ideas, and I've used those ideas. I notice my hairs have different colours along them when they fall out- the grey at the root will be less on one hair than on another, and I've used henna and indigo on greys so I feel like it has increased and decreased bulges. I only use henna once or twice per year, and take natural b complex vitamins, as well as avoid fortified processed foods which would deplete the ability to reset after oxidative stress. Scalp massage is also good, as is facial massage. General relaxation should help, although I have pain problems so it is a struggle. I've heard through YT videos that it takes 1000+ days to reverse greying, but I don't know if that includes hair dye damage.
I hadn’t dyed my hair since high school, and even then it was infrequent. I’ve been gray since about 40.
My father suffered from kidney stones; a suggested preventive was a specific vitamin-mineral combination. One day I noticed that part of his silver hair was apparently being dyed. Taking a second look, his hair was its’ original color close to his scalp, and silver starting 1/2 an inch out from his scalp. The supplement had the effect of returning his natural color.
That’s fascinating!!!
I noticed this in a few of my strands and wondered what I did supplement wise to help. Can u share what supplements helped?
@@JuliaShalomJordan - B6 and magnesium. Moderate doses (especially the magnesium!). I wish I remembered the specifics. I didn’t list them initially for fear I might start one of those moronic ‘if a little is good, pounds and pounds would be better’ things that seem to sweep the planet every couple of weeks, doing heaven knows how much damage. Good luck!
I had mousy coloured hair. Neither straight nor curly. Not thick. Didnt even grow bellow shoulder length. But it went grey beautifully. Not sure how but suddenly started getting other middle aged ladies in the hair dresser's complementing me on my hair. So I'll keep my grey hair thankyou
It matches my older skin as well.
I was actually expecting them to touch on catalase which is naturally occuring but some people suppliment with it to help with grey hair. It is the "star ingredient " of a lot of grey hair pills
The thing we need to get our hands on is the UV activated catalase cream that was involved in the studies which they refuse to release to the public
I researched about catalase after reading your comment. I will try that, seems promising.
@MedievalFantasyTV you are too naive. Knowledge is important. Catalase you take from pills will be completely destroyed in the guts and won't be absorbed. Waste of money.
Listen, supplement companies are just looking to make money off desperate people. Always remember this
man, i can't wait to have gray hair. i think it looks SO cool. my grandma has this brilliant pure snow white hair like the lady at 4:15 and i hope mine will be like that.
This is completely beside the subject of this video, but I'm glad that SciShow has, in most of their recent videos (like the last year or so, maybe), picked up on the fact that their start- and ending-jingle used to be far too loud. It took a while, but they got there, which is nice.
Also, the subject of this video is rather interesting. I don't know much about biology, so there's a lot about our cellular biology that continues to amaze me.
I never noticed my grey hair until it was visible in the age of 13 and I got a lot of stress and I was depressed 🫥 of it as it was a little embarrassing to have grey in this age and now I'm 15 I still have them I'm having homeopathy treatment and I know I can't reverse it but can slow it down . In my school 6 to 7 more children are having grey hair and and standard 6 child is having his hair all grey 😮
I don't know if it is possible but I believe we can slow it down
If you have them too don't worry you'll never die cause of it it's painless and be in a circumstance where people don't care about your hair ❤
I have a gf bro.
Am really stressed 🥲
I started going grey a few years ago, then I heard about some of the aging research being done by dr Sinclair... That sent me down the rabbit hole and I completely overhauled my diet.. since then all my grey hair has completely disappeared!.. not sure if it's one thing or a mix of factors but the results have been pretty spectacular... It's like I hit the rewind button on the aging process... my god is it ever complicated though! Holy Cr*p!!.. amino acids all need to be in the right ratios, almost every vitamin interferes with the absorption of others, and then even if it increases bioavailability, things like vitamin C and iron taken together can actually create ROS and can actually cause more harm than good.. especially to your kidneys... Get it all right though and the transformation is astounding...
Pls explain what all u eat?
care to share your plan and ratios? we can start there and adjust accordingly for us
Michael you are waste of time for everyone. No offense. I rant so much about how your routine diet reversed your greys but no info on that.
It's wild how thie varies. I only started getting gray hair maybe 2 years ago in my 30's and it's petty minimal. I have friends who were full salt and pepper in thier mid 20's
My hair started turning gray when I was around 43. I don’t really mind. One good thing is I still have all my hair. A family trait enables me to continue to have all my hair. I feel blessed to have all my hair. So I’m good.
Explanations without solutions . Can u imagine listening to this lady for hours ?
?
I just want science to make a breakthrough in keeping our fur babies alive a little longer
I'm 30 and I have baby hair all over my body lol
he's talking about pets lol
They have. Restricted calories. They see extended lifespan in lab rats all the time. Well documented science.
stop calling them that
My rag doll cat 😢
I have black hair and started graying at 15, but it progressed very slowly until I had kids. Each kid made me much grayer. Now I can dye my hair fun colors! Right now it's blue. Nice to not have to use bleach. I do see strands turn from gray to black, but overall the gray is winning.
Please may I ask the name of the hair dyes? In my experience Directions (UK brand) and Joico both cover but fade in a few weeks. Schwarzkopf Vivid Live colours last a really long time but don't cover grey hair. Thank you.
My hair will go gray then go back to blonde after I overcome the stressful situation I'm in at the time. My grandmother was the same. She never dyed her hair but on occasions it was salt & pepper then it would be black again. I didn't realize it was a family trait till it started happening to me.
There have been verifiable cases of minoxidil re-pigmenting hair in hair loss patients. I was sure that would be mentioned here. (It can also go the other way, and reduce pigment).
Catalase does a pretty good job of preventing and reversing grey hair.
Gray hair is f'n cool. I'm not gray enough, which kind of annoys me. ☹️
I am 55 now started greying since 18!!! Can’t wait for a pill or solution in my life time😊
That I'm going grey doesn't bother me... that I sound like a bowl of Rice Krispies in the morning, that bugs the hell out of me.
Snap, Crackle, Pop!
I found my greys halted (at about 5 hairs) after starting a whole food plant based diet. They’ve stayed the sam now for 5-7 years.
At her 70th birthday party, my mum had less than a quarter of the grey hair than I did at 35. Her brother's kids all got blessed with the "won't go grey" gene, but apparently I didn't. I got Granny's hot Irish temper instead. The hair gene would have been more useful. 🤦🏻♀️
Love your comment
This leads to a conundrum,
stress/temper versus the genetic code ?.
My grandmother never combed a grey hair and lived to almost 80.
But in those days most women drank a daily bottle of Guinness which might have things like copper and other nutrients conducive to good melanin. I also had an Accountant who also never combed a grey hair. He also may have had his Guinness regularly.
Head massage is very likely a good thing for the folicles.
I don’t what WHAT I did but during a smoothie cleanse/supplement kick, I saw one of my shed hairs that was half gray/half black. The black was near the root bulb! I couldn’t believe it??? I don’t think the cleanse had anything to do with it since it had clearly grown out for a bit. I don’t dye my hair or have mixed colors…really interesting
My mom had put her over/under for my hair going grey at 30, since she started early. I'm 42 and can sometimes see a single unpigmented (they seem entirely white) hair poking out here and there. Even I'm surprised, especially with all the chemo and radiation I've been through - total body irradiation damages all of your hair follicles and stopped some from working entirely. My hair's fallen out 4 different times, damaged follicles, and the system stress all add up...I expected it to happen earlier and more quickly. I don't mind either way, I just think it's interesting that what little melanin I have (in the remaining functional hair follicles) just keeps on truckin'.
I feel so much better now seeing so many comments about people going gray in their teen age years… I don’t know anyone personally that went gray prematurely, I always thought something had gone really wrong with me.
Listening with interest but loving Savannah’s “cookie cat” blouse.❤
That cookie cat t-shirt is giving me life. "He left his family behind!"
This makes me wonder if stem cell movement plays factors in other aspects of aging. I hope this might lead to future treatments that allow us to heal like we did when we were kids, or have the same energy level!
Thanks for getting straight to the point unlike others! Puvasol and L-methionine are the keywords here.
My 70 year old mother, who had an almost full head of gray hair, started eating black garlic on a regular basis, and her hair is more black than gray now.
What's black garlic? Is it black?
I love Savannah's shirt here. They always have amazing style
I want my grey hair reversed!!
In other comments I read about genetics so I'm kind of split on that. I'm 47 and yes, you can see some gray hairs but from afar I'm still pitch black. My older sister, however, started dying her hair at 37 while my older brother was nearly white in the middle with a black circle around at 45. My mother, on the other hand, at the age of 55 had never dyed her hair and didn't look gray at all. We're Afro-Latino by the way. Or rather, half, because the other half (our father) is white. In skin color, I was always the darkest of us three and I had more of our mother's looks. Maybe that's why, like her, I barely turn gray in comparison to my siblings?
Really interesting. I've always wondered what's keeping my 71 year old dad's hair from graying. He has very few grays, compared to his younger brothers who are almost all gray. Maybe there's something that affects l-methionine.
he probably doesn't get stressed easily also lol
My great aunt still has some colour to her hair, and she's nearly 110. Though her sister went grey fast. Though my mum still has a fair bit of her natural colour in her hair, in her mid 70's. And I've only in recent years got noticeable patches of white on my sideburns. Which annoys my brother since he wanted the doctor strange white streaks.
I can't wait to become grey, honestly!
Also, I am OBSESSED with Savannah's shirt!
It's an adorable shirt. ❤😸
hmm I think grey hair is simply bacteria that likes to feed on the follicles that generate hair color, if you kill off that bacteria using ethyl alcohol your hair will go from grey to your original hair color... worked for me, I have photo's of my hair half grey and half original color... yeah it looked weird but I was happy.
unfortunately not the same story for white hair, but you just need to pluck them and hope they re-grow.
I have a lot of white hairs, but I actually have hairs that go from dark to white and back... white at the tip but brown at the root. And sometimes I find ones that even go brown, then white, and then brown again... so I have no clue what is going on.
My hair has been going grey since my early 20s, but the strands turn almost snow white, with a slight silver shine. I think it looks pretty. 🙂
Coincidentally, as a kid I always got the occasional colorless strand, and they always seemed to be stress related. Rough week and I'd notice a clear strand on my face or scalp. They would break very easily and would seem to stop/go away when I got good sleep.
Now that I'm older I probably have 100 or so normal grays. But, when I get good sleep, they seem to reduce. I do take a multivitamin that contains L-Methionine.
I wish I could be scientific about it and monitor a patch of my scalp, but that would be too much work.
I started turning gray in my head hairs (the beard started a decade earlier) just before I turned 40, when my Mom had none at 65. To this day, I'm 53 and she is 78, and still has less gray hair than I do, despite the fact I still don't have a lot of it.
I turned grey within weeks of getting covid in early 2020! Some people just get them far too early! I see teens sith grey hair this days and im starting to think the environment plays a role! The same goes for hair loss
they sprayed something in the air bcuz even though I wasn't around people i was outside everyday dealing with my dogs. I still got sick and suddenly developed an autoimmune disorder. suffering pain and swelling in muscles, joints and organs and 4 months suddenly started dropping weight even though i was still eating. lost about 40lbs over 2-3 months. my body was shutting down! cld hardly walk or dress myself some days. my father also had similar symptoms but wasn't outside as much as me. we both tested negative for covid with the bs tests. we both developed the constant phlegm in the throat early in 2020 around march/april. that's all had before all hell broke loose on my body. went through almost every kind of doctors over 6-8 month period. finally went to the cleveland clinic in 2021 when i could travel and after looking at my chart of issues and symptoms over the last year the first questions the doctors asked was did i have covid and i said according to the docs i saw early on NO. then his next question was which vaccine did i take? two different specialists i saw asked me the same questions. which set off a alarm in my head. they knew those jabs was causing lots of issues in people. but the kicker is I never got any shots and wasn't around anyone who was sick with covid or anything when my issues started. even one of my dogs was sick which tells me something was being sprayed through the air, maybe some bacteria . that's my theory! I was actively working out, cycling, swimming etc when this all happened too soo yeah.
One of the components of creatine is l-methionine and creatine is readily-available. Not only that, but more research is finding that people probably should be supplementing with creatine (especially if they don't eat eggs and meat) for better brain function. That plus exercise and a keto-type of diet goes a long way in slowing graying and many other factors that we think of as being age-related.
The hair on my head seems to be stable for now at 38 years old but about 2-3 years ago a few odd white hairs started showing up around the chin in my beard. Those 3-5 hairs have now turned into visible clumps still constrained to the same area, interestingly all close to an old scar from a childhood incident that required stitches.
I really don't mind it just curious to see how it progresses, the loss of hair coverage at the top of my head is slightly more of a nuisance but I've eventually accepted that I need to apply sunscreen there too now or consistently wear a hat on days with enough UV radiation. Being male and knowing the hair patterns of most men on my moms side of the family I'm not surprised at all (both living and those in old photos).
Barely hitting my 30’s and hair is turning grey at the tips or in the middle and hair that is growing back from falling out is now turning grey
I started to get grey hair in high school. 30+ years later, I'll just say that a little bit of grey hair makes my job as a teacher a lot easier!
I have a condition called Pernicious Anemia which made me get a bunch of new greys in my 20s and then slowed down once i got treatment. (I've had at least some since around 12 years of age.) I which I could go all the way grey faster without the anemia. I'll just have to wait.
My daughter calls my grey haired friend "the old guy"...he is only 2 years older than me.
Your daughter needs a timeout.
You obviously haven't beaten her often enough.
@@tarmaque Ridiculous. She could be a small child. Calling someone old is hardly reason for a child (or anyone) to be beaten.
@@ledam2654 ./sigh It was so much easier when I was a kid and people understood what a joke was without being told.
@@tarmaquemany grow up like that.
It’s not a good joke. We have learned better as a society. Improvement and
growth is a good thing.
More longevity and life extension videos in the future ❤️😎 ty SciShow!
Everyone in my family has deep dark hair until they're about 85
I have heard that glutathione helps to neutralise hydrogen peroxide
Gray hair makes me seem wiser.
Ironic, since I lost my mind long ago.
I currently have 1 strand of hair that was completely white (on my bangs). Somehow a few months later, from the root towards the middle was black and from the middle to the end was white. So it went from black to white to black again. 🤷🏽♀️
Super cool research!
I wonder why some young people have grey hairs randomly around their heads?
It's probably a genetic thing.
Damaged individual pores?
My mom’s part of the family has this peculiarity of graying while young, my middle son took it from me too.
Pretty much everything comes down to your genes. Your hair and skin color, your appetite, your personality, your reactions to things, almost everything.
I can’t wait for silver hair. It’s like a rite of passage.
My entire family’s hair turns gray by 35 & completely white by 50. Most of them dye their hair regularly.
On my father’s side, male pattern balding starts at age 35.
When I turned 35, I said out loud that if my hair starts to recede & turn white then LET IT. It’s not like I can stop it anyway.
Then…….at 42 years old, my entire crown is still thick & jet black. The one person who wasn’t scared of the familial age-related hair patterns is still enjoying a natural unaltered crown. 😂😂
My mum went grey in her teens, my dad was well into middle-age to age before he did. I've taken after my dad, 53 and although I do have some grey hair you need to really look for it to find it. Sadly though I have lost a lot of tge red pigment I had from my dads side of the family
I do not care whether my hair is grey or not. I just want my hair BACK!!!
My Dad just went through chemo and radiation, his hair/ beard came back like he wad 25 years younger. Amazing
Amazing, it’s usually the other way around
Reminds me... I had a silly conversation with ChatGPT, lamenting the fact that my head-hair hasn't turned grey yet (...there are some grey face whiskers). GPT was very sympathetic, and encouraged me to start up a support group for others in the same situation :D
That's very nice of ChatGPT ❤
Thought my hair turned grey because of all these potions i have been dunking