Has it been proven that gray hair is linked to stress?!
Question: No. It's an old "wife's tale".
Gray hair is typically a result of natural aging. Pigment in the hair shaft comes from special cells at the root (base) of the hair. These cells are genetically programmed to make a certain amount of pigment (melanin) at specific ages. At some point in the aging process, these cells make less and less pigment until the hair has very little pigment. White hair has no pigment, and gray hair has some but not as much as a red, black or brown hair.
The full article from where the above was quoted is on the LINK shown below.
Answers: No. It's an old "wife's tale".
Gray hair is typically a result of natural aging. Pigment in the hair shaft comes from special cells at the root (base) of the hair. These cells are genetically programmed to make a certain amount of pigment (melanin) at specific ages. At some point in the aging process, these cells make less and less pigment until the hair has very little pigment. White hair has no pigment, and gray hair has some but not as much as a red, black or brown hair.
The full article from where the above was quoted is on the LINK shown below.
I don't know if it's been proven, but some people have made that conclusion based on circumstantial evidence. Personally, I would say that there's SOME truth of the idea that stress can affect the health of our hair, since stress can cause soooo many different things to go wrong and/or change, within our bodies, from rashes to diarrhea to heart palpitations. So perhaps in some folks, stress can so alter the chemistry of their body that it can affect the ability of the hair follicles to produce melanocytes (melanin?), which is how our hair gets its color.
What *has* been proven is that gray hair has a genetic factor. Both of my parents started getting premature gray hair, as did my aunt (on my mom's side) and both of her kids (my first cousins). And guess what? So have I!! ;)
Clearly this trait runs in my family, so unfortunately I didn't stand much chance of avoiding it. :(
When a Dr doesn't know what caused something they blame stress. Gray hair is genetic.
all that i can say when my only child was in the hospital and he almost dies with in two weeks i had more gray hair then i had ever had( he is find now)
When my mom died last Christmas it was so stressful. All of a sudden I started seeing these wiry looking white hairs mixed with mine. It was caused by her death and the toll it takes on you.
well my mom seems stressed and she has grey hair but she's 47