…and whether you can do something about it
You just thought you were in the prime of your life, suddenly you find something shimmering in your hair. A gray hair! You immediately feel ten years older. But you don’t have to, because you can go gray from the age of 25.
The one grays in his twenties, while the other keeps his own hair color until old age. There are also differences by origin. Just as you can inherit your father’s brown eyes, you also inherit the time when you turn gray.
First gray hair
In some cases, graying can also be caused by poor nutrition, illness, to smoke or stress. Often the graying starts with your sleep. Then it spreads over the rest of the scalp hair and also the body hair. In men, the first gray hairs often appear in their beards.
What exactly is gray hair? Gray hair is the result of altered protein synthesis, resulting in a loss of melanin (the pigment that gives color to our hair). This decreases the concentration of melanin in the hair. The hair turns gray. When all the melanin disappears completely, the hair becomes white (colorless).
Then paint?
Gray hair cannot be cured. Only in case of illness or an unhealthy lifestyle, can there nutritional supplements containing Para-aminobenzoic Acid (PABA) can be used. You can also pull out a single gray hair. The myth that two new gray hairs will replace it is not true.
If there are too many, you can choose to paint it. There are plenty of products on the market that can help disguise gray hair. From color shampoos and color rinses to hair dye. There are even products that have a regenerative effect; they ensure that pigment is made again by the melanocytes.
But of course you don’t have to camouflage it at all. A nice head of gray hair can be very characterful, especially in men. The saying goes: ‘Grey is wise!’
