CAUSES OF PREMATURE GREY HAIR EXPLAINED
While growing up as a child I was made to believe that grey are only grown by the aged people, this has remain my belief till date and am sure some of you hold such popular belief too but surprisingly grey hair is becoming common nowadays as even teenagers now grow grey hair.
Various cultures hold several belief as to why people grow grey hair, some attribute growing of grey hair to age while some to money whatever the belief or story is recent research has shown and explained the major cause of grey hair amongst people especially teens.
grey hair is a process s whereby the pigment is not being produced from the cells which produces color said by dermatologist jeffery Benabio.
Though greying of hair is a natural process that comes with man’s age, this appears because as the man ages the capability to synthesize the normal amount of melanin pigment which is responsible for giving black color to the hair declines this ultimately results in grey or whitening of hair
Some other factors have been attributed to the cause of grey hair and one of the major reasons been genetic that is offspring from parents who grow grey hair at an early age are more prone to have grey hair earlier in life as a result of overload melanin and hydrogen peroxide found in the body genetically.
More so recent research study by Melissa Haris suggest that grey hair are also cause by virus infections which attack the immune system, these result to loss of melanocyte stem cells which lead to an increased number of grey hairs. The infected cells under attack respond by interferon’s, interferons in turn signal to neighboring cells telling them to protect themselves.
This in excess can also lead to the loss of melanocytes and melanocyte stem cells stopping air production pigmentation however in the case of individual who are healthy but yet predisposed for grey hair, getting exposed to everyday viral infections also is just enough to cause poor production of melanocytes and melanocyte stem cells leading to premature grey hair.
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