I'm 26; could gray hairs be a result of diet imbalance?!
Question: I'm 26 with very dark hair. I've found a single silver hair once or twice before, but it's never really worried me.
However, just this year I noticed quite a few more - maybe 7 or 8, and some of them wiry, broken, less manageable than my shiny, silky hair. Yikes!
I am wondering if this could be partially caused by a diet imbalance? I primarily stick to a protein-rich, plant-based diet (pretty much like a vegetarian diet, but light on the carbs and even heavier on the veggies - I just think it's healthier), though I do eat chicken or fish once a week and usually incorporate at least some tofu and/or lentils into the mix. And I have to say, I'm not good about drinking water!
Although I'm aware that gray hairs are generally hereditary, my mother didn't start finding them until I was a child (she must have been in her mid-30s) so I am a little concerned that my gray hairs may be a sign of some other problem with my eating. Ideas? THANK YOU!!! :)
Answers: I'm 26 with very dark hair. I've found a single silver hair once or twice before, but it's never really worried me.
However, just this year I noticed quite a few more - maybe 7 or 8, and some of them wiry, broken, less manageable than my shiny, silky hair. Yikes!
I am wondering if this could be partially caused by a diet imbalance? I primarily stick to a protein-rich, plant-based diet (pretty much like a vegetarian diet, but light on the carbs and even heavier on the veggies - I just think it's healthier), though I do eat chicken or fish once a week and usually incorporate at least some tofu and/or lentils into the mix. And I have to say, I'm not good about drinking water!
Although I'm aware that gray hairs are generally hereditary, my mother didn't start finding them until I was a child (she must have been in her mid-30s) so I am a little concerned that my gray hairs may be a sign of some other problem with my eating. Ideas? THANK YOU!!! :)
I wouldn't worry about the few greys that have snuck in while you weren't looking. No, it's not due to your diet. You have a few hair follicles getting old and they ran out of pigment. Nothing you eat or don't eat has any effect on that. Since there are so few, you can either ignore them or clip/pull them out. Eventually you will lose the race, no matter what you decide, and then the choice will be live with the grey or turn to the beautician. I started getting my first greys about your age, and it bugged me too. I didn't have a significant number of them, but by my early 30's they were a bit more in number. I was debating the old dye bottle, when my daughter asked me one morning why my hair was so much prettier than hers. My baby, 4 years old, had cornsilk blond hair with natural corkscrews I'd have died to have- thought my hair was prettier. I asked her why she thought that was so, and she said "You have sparklies in your hair, and mine is just plain old yellow." Sparklies- imagine that! Changed the way I viewed them, that's for sure. I walked away sparkling all over, not just in the hair. Since then, the numbers have increased to say the least. I'm more frosted than anything, but I still can't bring myself to give up the sparklies. I've also come to realize the wisdom in the view- I'm not old because the hair is grey, I'm just young with sparklies!
Your diet is fine & I doubt very much that it is the cause of your gray hairs. Even if your mother didn't have gray hairs until she was in her 30's, she was still young. I believe it's in your genes. There is one thing I know for sure that brings on early gray hairs and that is smoking......it also brings on early wrinkles as well.
biotine (vitamin tablet) tends to restore hair color, or so states one of my friends that owns a hair salon
I would suggest getting your thyroid checked. T3, T4, and even a full pituitary panel. Hormones would be my guess. However adding more protein, in either lean meats or nuts will also help keep your body at its best.
i wouldnt blame it so much on the diet, althought there might be some minerals missing, but i'd say that it's more like genetics, probably if you look at your family and try to remeber around what age some of your relatives started showing gray hair...that could be one possibility.
your lucky. im and i have like 20 pure white hairs! And my hair color is a deep chocolate brown.
USE SHAMPOO THAT IS IT STOP USING EXTRA CHEMICALS IF U USE
Grey hair runs in my family so i started to go Grey when i was 16 i just excepted it and have died my hair ever since it's no big deal.