How does stress turn your hair grey?

Can stress really turn your hair grey? And if so, how? Thank you!

How does stress turn your hair grey?

"Scientific American has a short article which examines whether there's any truth to the common theory that stress makes your hair go grey. It's turns out there's some circumstantial evidence that stress may have an effect, but no definite causal link has been found.

Apparently, the gradual loss of melanocyte stem cells, ones that are key for hair colouring, lead to the loss of pigment.

Does stress accelerate this demise of the melanocyte population? "It is not so simple," Fisher says, noting that the process of graying is a multivariable equation. Stress hormones may impact the survival and / or activity of melanocytes, but no clear link has been found between stress and gray hair. Suspicions 閳?and hypotheses 閳?abound, however."

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How does stress turn your hair grey?

how does stress make your hair gray?One strand at a time Report It

How does stress turn your hair grey?

Idk but my mom says it happens to her

How does stress turn your hair grey?

Ya, it can... well its white not gray... but same thing.

i dont really know how it happens though

How does stress turn your hair grey?

From a medical study it is true. But most are just because it seems to be a family trait. My father was white haired at the age of eighteen. I started getting white hair in eight grade. My mother never had grey hair or signs of white hair untill she had started cancer treatments. As long as we have hair I guess we shouldn't complain huh? Hope I've answered your question. That's from what I learned in Barbering and Beautician school, and taught. Good Luck!!

How does stress turn your hair grey?

that is good question, my hair turn grey when I was 27, maybe the caus is my wife.