Why Does Your Hair Turn Gray? - Speaking of Chemistry
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It’s an inevitable side effect of longevity: your hair will turn gray. In this episode, Sophia Cai chats about the chemistry of your natural hair color, why it eventually turns white, and how scientists may be able to slow that graying down.
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All my hair went from young silky brown hair to frayed old partiality grey hair when I was 22. Had a lot going on in college that year. Don't take life too seriously folks.
Donald Dunavant I'm 17 my hair is going grey
Donald Dunavant I'm 11 and have a bad hairline and grey hair.. JK LOL HAHA sorry for the people I'm jealous cause you rock!!
I started going grey since I was 6
1234567891011 121314151617181920 lucky I got bullied when I was a kid horrible days of school
Donald Dunavant, this video is bullshit. Gray hair is caused by middle efficiency as you age, and the mineral deficiency is copper.
This chick clearly doesn't understand the crisis of going gray in your late teens-mid 20s.
Many thanks, been searching for "is there a difference between white and grey hair?" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Conuhammade Ideological Control - (just google it ) ? It is a smashing one off product for discovering how to look and feel younger again without the normal expense. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my buddy got great success with it.
Wow I'm gray at 14 😑
Catalase Is essential to maintain natural hair color. Catalase is produced by your liver. Eating sugar, carbohydrates & processed foods interfere with your liver normal functioning; thus interfering with your body's ability to produce catalase & break down the hydrogen peroxide.
What happens if your body produces too much hydrogen peroxide?
Hydrogen peroxide causes toxicity via three main mechanisms: corrosive damage, oxygen gas formation and lipid peroxidation. Concentrated hydrogen peroxide is caustic and exposure may result in local tissue damage.
Bottom line gray hair is your body's way of telling you your body isn't functioning optimally. Unfortunately the Billion dollar Hair Dye industry & medical professionals don't want you to know the truth.
@@marysmith3710well you explain very well... Please explain how to deal with this too....!!! Please do if you read my comment coz I like your explanation...
im 19 and already have more grey hair than I can count 😧
cut them carefully😂
pluck them
+Branden Emery Cheers for the Video! Excuse me for the intrusion, I would love your thoughts. Have you tried - Millawdon Goodbye Gray Trick (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is a great one off product for learning how to reverse gray hair fast minus the normal expense. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my mate after a lifetime of fighting got great success with it.
Stop eating Tide Pods!!
Just Dye it..
I started getting grey hair during my teens, I'm now 22 in uni and I have more grey hair than my mum, it's worse whine you have black hair too!
Same, I have more grey hairs than both my parents and I'm only 21 :(
same im looking for a solution :P any tips?
Cheers for the Video! Sorry for chiming in, I would love your opinion. Have you thought about - Millawdon Goodbye Gray Trick (probably on Google)? It is an awesome exclusive guide for learning how to reverse gray hair fast minus the hard work. Ive heard some awesome things about it and my old buddy Taylor finally got cool results with it.
Lucky i want grey hair
How much did you have at like 15 ?
Ended up here after I saw grey hair on my head in front of the mirror.
Same
Lovely video content! Excuse me for chiming in, I would love your initial thoughts. Have you considered - Millawdon Goodbye Gray Trick (do a search on google)? It is a smashing one off product for learning how to reverse gray hair fast minus the headache. Ive heard some super things about it and my mate after a lifetime of fighting got excellent success with it.
I hate to admit it, but I feel insecure as hell after I found a grey hair on my head 😓 I'm in my 20s and none of my family or friends close to my age have it. It's embarrassing as hell
Same and I’m only 17! This sucks :(
Nahh i have tons of grey hairs at the age of 18 and im loving it, feels special. And rather than go bald xd
Emotional stress and tension can lead to white hair. Its my personal experience. After my break up with my boyfriend due to stress and tension my beautiful dark black hair turned 70% white within 2-3 months.
Also king Shahjanha who built Taj Mahal in memory of his wife after her death was so much in deep grief that he locked himself in his room for one week and after one week when he came out of his room his hair turned totally white just in one weeks time. So its true that for some people stress and emotional setback can effect their hair Color.
Wow so this is really true. Since my broken heart and stress, I've been going grey
I think there's a big correlation with Stress and Grey hair.
It's just NOT Coincidental.
Lies, i’ve never really been stressed out, yet i remember getting white hair at 9, as of right now im 15 and have about 100 of grey hair, possibly more
@@mazuki7602 Wow.....that's crazy! Kinda like Steve Martin,lol.
I do believe that as well but definitely believe stress adds to it.
Environmental factors + genetic variables = phenotypes
I'm 16 and my hair gray :(
Bruh one of my friends is 15 and his hair is turning grey more and more everyday!
Weekend Lê im 13 and i hav grey hair
same bro
Weekend Lê I'm 12 and I have white hair
amandapoops same
i'm 26 I have it all over the side of my head and my parents didn't get gray till their 40s so yeah I do think stress plays a big part i'm always stressed
johnsee70 omg same I‘m 26 now and have a lot of white hair on one side
Jane Rose same even tho i’m just 15...
@@janerosaGermany it's awful:( I know it's part of life but I've been insecure as hell since I found grey hair on my head
My grandma who’s always been pretty anxious is 76 and her hair is still not gray. She has some gray streaks now but when I was younger her hair was still black. I hope I got her genes
From what I’ve noticed it seems like it can be many things, but the one main factor that’s effected and the only one anyone should worry about is a persons immune system.
I’m 30 and no gray hair, it’s strange because my mom became a silver fox in her 20’s yet I can’t seem to find any grays in my head. I was looking forward to graying because I’ve seen the big trend on silver hair and it looks good 😌
I'm 24 and have a few gray hairs. When I was 21 I was diagnosed with an extremely rare cancer (300 people a year get it) and have since been kinda cured with a bone marrow transplant (more of a psa, I guess, for getting people to know these transplants exist and we need donors!!!) But the stress of 32 rounds of chemo has definitely caused my hair to gray haha but I feel no shame and am happy to me alive!!
Keep praying 🙏
OK. I"m a chemist. And I don't go around sharing videos in the usual way. But I much appreciated this video. This is the kind of chemistry that is popular to the average person.
How does the length of hair turn gray if it was already brown before ? Like if the strand is already brown but the cells stop producing melanin wouldn’t that mean only the roots would grow out gray? How does the gray travel down the entire hair shaft ?
well maybe if school didn't give me so much flipping homework and school work and class work then maybe in the future I won't have a grey hair!😈
Foeva 21 same
Appreciate Video! Sorry for the intrusion, I would appreciate your opinion. Have you heard about - Millawdon Goodbye Gray Trick (do a search on google)? It is a great one of a kind product for learning how to reverse gray hair fast minus the normal expense. Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my BF got amazing results with it.
I am only 13 and most of my hair turns into grey and I have never DIY my hair but I am always stressed and full of tension.
Why are you stressed at 13
Thanks for sharing! To add to this, causes of grey hair include chronic stress and viral infections. Chronic stress can result from emotional stress, or the stress of eating processed foods high in sugar, grains, and carbs. Consuming catalase and glutathione in foods can help with grey hair! Foods with catalase include green apples, cinnamon, cocoa and garlic! Foods with glutathione include protein foods, as some of the amino acid building blocks of protein help to make glutathione!
I'm 68 and because of weight loss I also lost a lot of hair so I started taking folic acid. My hair started growing back dark, beat that.
Folic acid stops hair from graying??
OMG. so true. I have had an intense emotional stress episode as a teenager and now my greys are popping up like crazy and I am just 35.
How bad is your grey now that it's 2 years later? I'm 43 and I'm starting to get a few gray hair here and there...
Yeah man. I am just 30, stuck career is causing me lot of stress and am developing gray hairs for the first time.
i started getting grey hair when i was 10
spr1nt 1 yrs old
I've been getting since 2nd grade😔
I don’t mind my gray hair at all, haven’t dyed my hair in 5+ years. I was getting grays at the age of 19. Also, a sign of a copper deficiency is premature grays hair.
I m 21 n my most of hairs turns into gray and it's started when I was in 16 yr old...It's so irritating 😧
grey hairs started since I was eight. I'm twelve today, its really weird since my classmates don't even have this many grey hairs :< it's reaaaaaaally annoying. there's even a thin white hair on my arm 😂 my mom won't let me color my hair either😭😭😭😭
Yah I'm 11😬😔
dang i’m 13
Cut it short
Anyone else touched their hair watching this video
How about a video about hair loss/androgenic alopecia/male pattern baldness next?
Ok! I’m turning 12 soon on June,and while my cousin was braiding my hair and found white hair! And well she puled it out,I was so surprised because it was half white and half black! And come to think of it,I did have some emotional stress and had a hard time with my studies.so yeah,have fun with your life!
Haha I know your like 16 by now but I just turned 12 and I have lots of grey hair which I hate but I was wondering how you delt with it?
Grey hair is awesome, I have had it most my life!
Started going gray at 18 and I love it more as the years go by.
Started going Gray when I was 23 and love it over the years. Scared at first though for growing old age but starting to love it now at age 35. I become completely Gray at 40 years old my prediction. Nobody wants to stay the same for a long time. Just saying.
Natives don't go grey often. Neither of my parents or grandparents have/had full grey hair (my paternal grandfather had a little but not much). I have one grey hair on my head but a couple in my facial hair.
I can't wait till I'm old and gray I'd feel like yes I made it, I'm old and wise I get to pull the age card
+Sun Clouds old ain't wise by any stretch of the imagination
ircimager dont ruin my dreams
haha your dreams can only be ruined by you, kid.
Why would you even look forward to being old? wrinkles, white hair, slow metabolism, less energy, ailments. I can go on and on...
I'm only 40 and look/feel younger, but I feel like time goes by so fast that the next time I wake up, I'll be 50 and it's terrifying...
@@daniadams1415 think about wrinkles as well 😋
I'm 27. I got my first grey at 11. I'm now fully silver
my dear can u tell us all how to stop grey hair or reverse the action? 😊
Best I can think of is hair dye
Dont get stressed out and dont stay up late at night
Take care of your self
Embrace your grey hair, it’s like a tigers stripes, it means you’re experienced and have seen shit, that’s awesome to me 🤩😊
Im 15 and getting white hair 😞
my grandmas hair is black and 80 years old, no dye, just never seen anyone keep their hair that way for so long. Yet on my other side of family cousins gone near full grey at 35. Really hoping for my hair to stay dark.
My grandma was like this full black hair only started graying a bit in her 80s
i get distracted with her hand gestures haha
hHaa😂 yeah
Asians exaggerate it like no one else
..... I'm also stoned.
I started showing gray hair around mid-30's...short strands. I'm freaking out and pull them out from time to time. Browsing through the comments, I realize some others have it worse, even in their teens?! 😱
was around 7 the first time I got my initial grey/white hair. So all throughout life (especially in high school) was mocked for it but not really a huge deal. What sucks is that it stands out completely against my naturally black hair. I'm 31 now, my hair is still 97-98% black but every now & then, I still catch a few grey hairs & it's STILL annoying, lol.
I cant believe I would rather have my gray hairs than my natural black hair but I hate the latter with a passion
Every semester in college, right around finals time, two or three grey hairs would pop up. I'd pluck them out and go about the year. It never really happened again, despite numerous times of stress in my life, so maybe it was just the concentration of stress that did it, lol.
However, now that I'm in my 50's and actually going grey, the area where those 2-3 hairs would pop up was the first area that came in fully white. I've got a cool streak of it where everywhere else is more evenly distributed. Maybe the follicles in that area just always had less catalase/more hydrogen peroxide going on.
Just live with it and pretend your an anime character lol
I AM A KID AND I GROW WHITE HAIR!!!
I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE CALL ME OLD IM JUST 11
lolz
Grow your hair out, you'll look like Sephiroth
Tell them you're a proud descendant of Jenova.
Dragon Survivor Me too but I’m 13
Its your boy Jumpman me too
I was 13 years old when i saw first white hair on my head (My natural hair color was dark black). I never drunk, never smoke and never use any hair color etc.
There is something more complex related to gray or white hair. Is there anyway that i can get back my dark black hairs on head?
Someone suggested me that you should take "Folic acid" vitamin tablets. I don't know this will helpful for me or not.
Adnan Ahmad because you eat to much sugar
“I don’t know what to do with my hands”
My ex girlfriend lied and said she was pregnant 4 years ago. I got really stressed and now my beard is almost all gray because of that. It happened in a matter of one month. And I’m only 41!!!!!
I'm 13 and going grey already
Mighty Mouth Same bro
I just pulled a strand out of my beard and the tips were dark colored but the root half was white. I just wondered why so I started surfing for an answer. This is the only place I have been able find it explained, thanks.
my hair went from white blonde to blonde then light brownish redish with blonde streaks and tips to light brown then darker brown then grey mostly now.. my hair has also had small amounts of random hairs of every hair color since adulthood .. including my beard.. now my beard especially is mostly grey with lots of coal black and random red blonde and light brown hairs
Same but no gray in beard yet
I grow grey hair when I was 1 year old!
This doesn't explain why half of my beard has always been white and the rest is brown. Why would it do this?
+ƁᴇғᴏʀᴇƮʜᴇļɴᴛᴇʀɴᴇᴛ You may have melonin problem
German Eagle That's not even how you spell melanin. :(
ƁᴇғᴏʀᴇƮʜᴇļɴᴛᴇʀɴᴇᴛ Sorry, I'm brasil so I'm not really sure how to write it.
Could be genetics
im only 13 and i have 5 gray hairs
BaConBluCakes same
15 and hair white
Me 14
Well if we count the white transparent hair on my body l have about 5 too (and l am 13)
BaConBluCakes I'm start having little bit
25 and have grey facial hairs and once in awhile 1 grey hair on my head
What is your suggestion for guys who are unmarried and most all their beards have gone gray?
I am going in deep depression due to this, it's a shame there is no permanent cure for this.
my white hair started growing when i was 14. and now im 15 its growing 3x more than it was😫. it really sucks
I started getting grey hair when i was 11
rjboyTsoy i'm 12 and i have a lot
Me at 8
Me at kinder foreal
rjboyTsoy I'm 13 .i'm afraid coz my aunties will make funny of me
Lucky bastard!!!
I am 71 just starting to go grey, my brother 67 been grey for a while. I have been on a strict whole food diet my entire adult life. I also have 0 medical problems
Does overthinking makes your hair gray?
I’m 12 and I’ve had 2 gray hairs so far. First my friend found one and plucked it. Then like a month later my sister finds one and plucked it. Love my life
What a fantastic video and it gave me the Info I needed. Cheers
Is there a supplement that causes natural white hair? Because sign me up for a prescription.
I want it too! but my hair is darker than night.
Soo cool to learn that my hair is colorless before it goes out 😱
Have a lot of grey hair now am 26. Before college I had no grey hairs.
Lucky bastard!!!
I found my first one two weeks ago in my chin. I shaved and it came back. Yesterday, I found one in the center of my head hair (it's pretty long, so it must've been there for awhile). I'm 25 going on 26 in a few months. With the exception of my year younger sis having several grays strands, I don't have much evidence of early graying in my family. Interesting...
Now you're 30-31. How's that grey hair looking?
Grey hair unites the younger and the older like in an across age sickness.Time to get the colour of our hair back working for us all.
my dad was approximately 50% gray at the end his 20s
while my mom is going to become 40 now and has less than 10 gray hairs
my fucking luck was that i took my dads genes on the melanin department
I started going gray around 18 or 19 years old way 🙂 back in 2001 or 2002 my aunt found my first gray hair.
Premature grey hairs can turn into black or not
Well, on the bright side once it's all grey you can go out without fretting or you can dye your hair any color.
Best thing that ever happened to my hair was it going grey, i'm 40 so maybe early.. but the women love it!
i keep growing a white hair on my right wrist what does this mean
It's actually possible, to suspend hair greying. If your shampoo has certain chemicals that actually enter the roots or bloodstream, that keeps your scalp from producing melanocytes for pigment. It's like skincare, based on your daily routine, then years from now, you're prolonging the life of the cell. Your scalp is actually an organ. It needs a pathway to actually enter effieciently for effectivity. Hair oiling and scalp exfoliating can do the trick for now, until then, a better compound is presented to suspend greying.
If my hair turns grey. I am keeping it beautiful.
I am 6 months old and bald
Why, after you've been grey for years, and never used any kind of hair coloring, does it begin to turn dark again in certain areas of the head?
I’m 21 and I already have a salt and pepper look so to speak it’s all good though, as long as I don’t go bald but what’s weird is that I have a full beard and it’s completely black nothing gray or white about it
Going gray sucks!
My first white hair popped out when I was 8.😭
I started getting little patches of grey hair when I was 20 just found more grey around the front of my hairline. I’m actually really excited I can’t wait to be fully grey!!
I hate gray hair...I pick them one by one out
I’m 13 and I have like over 20 pieces of grey hair
I'm 16 and my hair is gay
😂
I’m 13 right now, no grey or white hairs, but my dad went pre-maturely grey so we’ll see what happens when I’m in my 20s 🤷🏻♀️
Ive been having grey hair since age 8. we grey very early in my family
to avoid higher concentrations of hydrogen peroxide attack to enzyme for melanin production, we may apply medicine including catalase on the skin on the head. where do they sell catalase?
I’m 22 and i got a few strands of grey hair that grew black hair like an ombre
Our teacher is in his mid 30s and I find him really handsome with his all grey hair
Really
ya sure BUT dont forget to watch and try the video on reversing gray hair.. i will and if it works....
25 and first silver hair. It shines alot.
My dad is 66 and still hasn't gone gray. His hair has thinned some from the crazy thick it once was, but that's all. My mom went gray in her 40s, so I'll just have to wait and see what happens to me.
my friend has had grey hair since she was 5.. not all over but she had quite a few strands.
I am 44 years old and I got a couple of gray hairs. I am not going to dye my hair.
I don't think she got it quite right - the amount and type of eumelanin determines whether your hair is light or dark. Pheomelanin determines the amount of red in your hair.
I don't have any stress and my parents hair started becoming grey when they reached 35 years of age and i am only 19 and i have found 1 hair in my head white my hairs are absolute black
I’m 48 with mostly white beard. Some black still. My hair though startrdvturning at 16 but it’s silver! It shines in direct or bright light. Not the beard though. Also my silver hair is a bit at my temples but mainly right on top of my head I’ve grown it out now and I like the stripes I have. The front is still dark so when I pull it back you see silver stripes. And when it’s loose you can see silver stripes. I want more!
I am 75 years old and I have to search for any grey in my hair - my hair is medium brown. Why?
Thanks for this...stressing plays a part for sure.
So many kids on here not even 20 yet & have gray hair already, not sure what that's all about. I'm 30 & have no gray hair, believe me I look. My mother didn't start to gray until early 50s.
I don't want to go grey
But you are going to face it sometime because there is only a handful of people that don't turn grey when they get older.
I'm 13 i already have white hair
I'm almost 43 with no greys no dyes, & I'm not sure 2 be happy about it or not🤷♂️
You got some good genes!
@@ACSReactions thanks Gobless u
My mother is turning 75 and has no grey hair and never dyed her hair in her life.
None of my parents or grandparents had gray hair until they turned 45+ Here I am 33 and I have my temples Gray hair and about 20 percent over head hair graying. Plus I used to have straight hair too but now they curl a bit.. Nothing here is Genetic. Except something is damaging my cells. -_-
does going grey in early 30s mean you have bad diet,bad heart,bad indigestion,low bone density please share your thoughts
Very informative video ..... I love to learn about new things...
I started getting Grey hair on 2nd grade😔
I can't wait for grey/white hair
I might even dye