White Hair?

Mike

Mike

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Why do we get White Hair in later life?

I can't understand where it comes from, is
it because there is too much chlorine in the
water that we drink and wash in?

Is washing it too often another reason, again
because of the bleach in the water?

This seems to be a "Civilised Country" problem,
people in parts of Asia, South America & Africa
seem to have fewer cases of white hair.

I think that treated water has something to do
with this.

What do you think?

Mike.
 

Hmmm...why do I have a
gray hare on my head. I'm thinking.

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Why do we get white hair as we age?

Because our BL**DY kids drive us to it.
 

I think it has something to do with loss of melanin as we age. That's the thing that gives our hair it's color. Let's discover a supplement for that and make Billion$
Seriously, why haven't researchers found a supplement for that??
 
As we get older, the pigment cells in our hair follicles gradually die. When there are fewer pigment cells in a hair follicle, that strand of hair will no longer contain as much melanin and will become a more transparent color — like gray, silver, or white — as it grows. ... People can get gray hair at any age.( Google)

So such is why I colour still lol if I did not my hair would be white o_O to young for that..
 
Thank you all for your replies, but you are telling
me how it happens, I have a fairly good idea about
that now.

The initial question was WHY?

Also why it seems to be more in the "Western World"
and less in other places?

Mike.
 
Up until my father died in his 70s, he had pepper and salt hair, very little grey and a full head of hair. My mother was more grey all over. Me, I'm 50 shades of grey. :p But I've colored my hair since I was in my 20s and will continue for now. They do say that white people go grey more often than other races, etc., not sure why. http://www.berkeleywellness.com/article/gray-hair-untangling-fact-fiction
Does everyone go gray the same way?


No. Graying varies by gender and race. According to a 2012 survey of more than 4,000 middle-aged people across the world, published in the British Journal of Dermatology, 74 percent of those ages 45 to 65 had gray hair, with men more affected than women. People of Asian and African descent had less gray hair at any given age than Caucasians.

Patterns of graying also differ. For example, a 2011 paper in Acta Dermato-Venerealogica that focused on Koreans found that gray hair tends to appear first at the temples in men and in the frontal area in women, while premature graying tends to occur on the side and back, compared to later graying, which tends to affect the front more. And as you may have noticed, beard hair often goes gray sooner than head hair, while underarm, pubic, and chest hair sometimes stays dark until old age.
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I started turning gray at 16 - so did my hubby. Now we're both snow white & our 40 year old son is 50% gray. We're in Style now =====> young people are dying their hair gray - on purpose !
 
Mike said:
Thank you all for your replies, but you are telling
me how it happens, I have a fairly good idea about
that now.

The initial question was WHY?


Mike.
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It's nature's way of protecting us as we get older.

Other people can see who is driving the car and avoid them. That's my theory anyway and it's supported by more cars in the 'Western World'

Also who wants to fight with an old guy with white hair?
 
My hair was close to white for a long time; platinum blond from the time I was born till I was 35! Then it turned dark so what's the logic to that? I have white hair around my face but dark blondish/ redish/ brownish now. Go figure..:pride:
 
L'Oreal is supposedly working on a supplement that will restore melanin, to the hair shaft but so far nothing has been released for public consumption.
 
Why does it happen? It's just another piece of the aging process. Things wear out. Vision and hearing begin to fail, plumbing breaks down, hair stops growing and/or loses color, muscle sags, skin gets wrinkled because elasticity breaks down, bodies get weaker , etc.

Aging that results in loss of hair pigment in people with heavily pigmented hair isn't as noticeable. Genetics may play a part as well.
 

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