what causes gray hairs?
In: Biology
Can someone now explain how I have facial hair that’s white at the end, but colored brown from the root outward (until it turns white)? It’s weirding me out
Also your base hair color can determine, to a degree, how light or dark grey your hair will be. I’m a ginger so mine is turning white, whereas my brunette friends are a darker silver.
I got alopecia on my beard in splotches. Three or four round spots all the hair fell out and the skin was baby smooth. After about a month or 6 weeks hair grew back in those spots and it has been grey every since
I’m 34 and have 0 white/gray hairs. People say it’s because *I don’t have children,* but come on girl, my life has been preeeeetty stressful so far.
I also have really long hair- past my butt. Pretty sure my biological father is super gray. And my mom’s hair has always been really thin (she basically looks bald in pictures), and she started getting whites in her 30s maybe. So guess I just got lucky. In the hair department, anyway. Everything else is **fucked.**
The answers are half right here technically, it is caused by a reduction in melanin, but that is then subsequently replaced by… Air. Little pockets of air are placed where the melanin WOULD HAVE BEEN and then cause the grey/white appearance. As for the *why*, could be a combination of many factors including genetics, diet, stress, ETC.
It’d be more accurate to look at it as if your hair is naturally gray, and your body is able to produce color for it. As you get older, your ability to color your hair diminishes.
Melanin is the pigment that gives colour to our hair but as we grow older, the production of this pigment gradually declines. Hence, gray hair.
My mom had major thick silver streaks in her hair with a light salting throughout the rest at my age (42). I just started getting some regularly this year. I think I have like maybe 6-7 . I’m really surprised I haven’t gone more grey already
It’s basically Vitiligo and almost all of us go through it progressively as we get old. Diagnosed Vitiligo is the same thing, loss of pigmentation, but usually early on and in patches and can include skin color often.
Can we take Melanin that can cause gray hairs so we don’t get them?
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