can go gray for several different reasons but really the main primary reason is genetics a lot of it depends on what age your parents went gray now
if you look at the normal age when people
start to grow gray some of that
depends on your ethnic background so
for example people who are Caucasian tend to
go gray in their mid-thirties people who are Asian tend to grow gray considered a late 30s and then people who are
african-american they tend to go
gray maybe in their early to mid 40s there
are other factors one of the factors
that we talked about is smoking so people who are smokers definitely have a
higher risk of turning gray at an earlier
age and there has been studies
that have linked things that cause stress
to our body to lead to premature
greying and some of those conditions
are
things like pollution emotional
stress even ultraviolet light has been linked
to it and then there are some
medical conditions that have been linked to
early graying of the hair and one of
those is changes in thyroid levels so
they've also had studies that have
shown that people who have a vitamin b12
deficiency also seem to go gray in
an earlier age and then one other factor I
should mention is that certain
medications can lead to premature graying
and these are not commonly used
medications but some of the
medications they use for chemotherapy or for
treating inflammatory diseasessome
of those medications have been
linked to premature graying of the
hair at this point in time we have not developed any definite treatments so
there's actually not a shampoo or a medication
by mouth or even an
injectable medication that really
seems to be able to turn that around
so the answer is no unfortunately at
this point in time we don't have a medication that can help treat that
interestingly enough there is
research being done into that that's sort of a
common folk tale that's out there
there has not been any evidence shown that
pulling one out leads to more gray
hair so at this point in time we actually
recommend if you just have a few gray
hair plucking those gray hairs is
actually a fine way of dealing with
it although I would caution you if you're
going to pluck gray hair you don't
want to color your hair right afterwards andn the reason for that is I see a
lot of
people who develop allergic
reactions to hair dye and so you never want to color
your hair if you damaged your scalp
in
any way
