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- What Makes Your Hair Turn Gray?
- At the beginning of the graying process, follicles produce colorless strands in a random pattern.
- When it happens There is currently no scientific way to tell when a particular cell or group of cells will stop producing melanin.
- The average male starts to gray around age 30, while women typically began to notice lighter strands around age 35.
- Several drugs can cause growing hair to stop its growth cycle and fall out.
- This is especially dramatic for people with telogen effluvium, a temporary condition in which a major stress, such as severe illness, surgery or sudden weight loss, speeds up shedding to 300 hairs a day.
- For example, slow-growing or new gray wisps may become more obvious if you are coping with alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair to fall out in small patches.
- Getting to the root of it It all begins when your body stops producing melanin.
- Interestingly, some cancer patients, whose gray hair falls out as a result of chemotherapy, experience regrowth of the lost strands in their original color.
- Pernicious anemia, a disease marked by a vitamin B12 deficiency, is sometimes associated with decreased melanin production.
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