This is the second video in a two-part series on graying hair. If you missed the first one, check out Why Does Hair Turn Gray?: nutritionfacts.org/video/why-does-hair-turn-gray/
You should look into whether eating blackstrap molasses helps reverse graying hair. I tried it once, for a little while, and it seemed to help. Haven't been able to get back into it. Don't really know what to put blackstrap molasses on, lol.
Video summary helps you save time watching 00:40 Oxidative stress: smoking, obesity. 01:29 Reversible: B12 deficiency, hypothyroidism. 02:12 Stress and rapid graying. 03:21 Gray hair and health: mixed evidence.
I’m almost 60 and have very little grey hair. I don’t smoke, drink moderately and eat a plant based diet (with B12 supplements). I think the main reason though is that I don’t have a stressful life, nor am I a worrier. Incidentally my mum told me about a boy who was in her class at school and witnessed his friend get crushed by a train carriage (they were playing around in a goods yard) His hair went white overnight with the shock of it.
Your dietary choices may have significantly slowed down your graying - it’s impossible to know. Do you have any siblings who went gray before you for comparison?
It might be more complicated than it seems. There are many types of antioxydants, for example some which can accumulate (and therefore protect) your brain, and some which does not accumulate in the brain. So it might be that there are certain antioxydants out there which do protect the cells which give hair its pigment. If those were found almost exclusively in say blackberries, then even the whole-food fans out there might not get enough because they just so happen to not eat enough blackberries.
I will concur that at age 46, and being about half grey, I do seem to get more respect in the does-she-know-what-she's-talking-about department. The rest of me seems reasonably young so I don't get the let's-dismiss-the-old-lady-treatment yet. I wonder if I would be even greyer without my B-12 and healthy lifestyle.
My Dad had very little gray hair, at 54 he suffered a heart attack on a plane and was in the hospital across the country for a month. When he came back he was surprisingly very gray, then over time he got his colour back.
My hair went grey very suddenly shortly after my GERD and IBD diagnosis. However, the pain stops me sleeping and eating properly which in turn causes chronic stress and anxiety. When I found a tolerable diet, the pain and thus stress reduced and my hair colour came back. It was very weird.
Just turned 56 and still color my greys every two months or so. Thankful it's just on the sides and a bit in back. Some people look great with grey, but I don't like looking older, or even my age. It seems that I now have less grey after increasing my B complex to three times a day (I open and split up one capsule), and better managing my reaction to stress. That's the main key! 🔑🧘♂️
Awesome. My dad is 90 with no gray hear on his scalp. He's in a great shape and most people mistake him for early 70's. I am following suit, being almost a clone of him, and have no scalp gray (or thinning) at 62. Plenty of gray in my beard tho. I hope that doesn't count!
@@zorro149 We both sleep 7-8 hrs a night on average. typically 11-7ish. Neither of us take B-12 specifically but there is likely some in the multi's we take. I eat healthier than dad (I'm semi-vegetarian) but he eats pretty healthy for his demographic. He's better about his weight than I am. He's on the money, I'm 25ish lbs over. Working on that.
@@RoughNeckDelta Some people certainly do - and more power to them if they want to do that. But there are some I personally know where this isn't the case.
@adamd9418 I am one of those people. At 70, I am just now starting to see a few gray hairs, but very few. I attribute it to genetics, plant-based since 2007, and being a runner for 46 years. I do supplement with B12 as well.
Rip Esselstyn has gray hair, and he seems fine. Regarding vitamin B12, Dr. Greger recommends cyanocobalamin and Dr. McDougall recommended methylcobalamin. I take 1,000 mcg of methylcobalamin on Tuesday and 2,000 mcg of cyanocobalamin on Friday, so I'm covered regardless of who is right. I wonder, if I took more B12 during the week, if that might reverse my graying.
Love the idea of mixing up the B12 sources during the week. Since the docs don't agree on this I've been doing a bottle of cyan until it's gone, then replacing it with a bottle of methyl. I like your method better! I don't want to take too much though - love my gray hair and don't want to lose it! 🧓
If your body only needs about 20 mcg of B12 per week and you have unregulated synthetic B12 pills with 3000 mcg of B12 per week what does your body do with the other 2980 mcg of B12 that it does not need and since 100% of the cyanide does get absorbed how will that eventually in time effect the body?
@ “Serum iron, zinc, and copper concentration in premature graying of hair” Farahnaz Fatemi Naieni et al. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2012 Apr. Search Pubmed for it.
That's interesting! My dad is in his 70's, was a smoker since the age of 20 ( has stopped smoking 4 years ago 🙏) and his hair is about 20% gray. I am in my 40's, vegan for almost 9 years (very little processed foods), have never smoked or drank in my entire life and my head is covered with gray hairs! What the heck ?😅😅😅😅. To be fair if it is generic my mom's hair was 50% gray in her 30's.
You're not going to get the answer from a grey bald doctor who reads short-term studies. The problem is lymphatic elimination pathways gradually congesting over decades. This allows acids to build up around organs/glands, increasing the rate of degeneration. Nutritional solutions can temporarily counter with improved regeneration, but will quickly lose this race. You can decongest with periodic 100% astringent fruit feasting, then minimizing mucus-forming foods between cleanses. Conventional doctors dismiss this effect because they are taught the lymphatic pathways dumps the waste back into the bloodstream at valves near the thoracic. However the last stop before these valves is the kidneys, where the waste will be filtered out in healthy people. This misunderstanding is also the primary reason they handle chronic and terminal conditions so poorly. You inherit genetic weaknesses from both parents, but your lymphatic elimination pathways are developed from your mother since these are shared during gestation. So if hers were congested at that time, then you are more susceptible to acidic buildup in the head leading to baldness and grey hair. The same factors eventually lead to dementia, cancer, and other degenerative diseases, so receiving course isn't just about appearance. The most effective fruits are concord grapes and lemons, and the book The Grape Cure is a short read that demonstrates what to expect.
There is such a thing as a healthy amount of stress. If video games are giving you anxiety, though, then try different games or different genres. I would also try just doing single player games rather than multiplayer where it's the unpredictable behavior of other people (often good, sometimes bad) that can be too much. Games that have excessively addicting gameplay mechanics that are tantamount to gambling (loot boxes) or encourage a lot of grinding/farming are not my idea of a good time.
In Ayurveda they say that there are different organs/tissues the body prioritizes in a certain order to transfer the nutrients and energy from our food. Skin, nails and hair being at the end. When your nutrition is bad or you're not living your ideal life, then bad skin, weak nails and weak grey hair is visible.
I think gray hair can also be the result of suboptimal lifestyle (i.e. - nutrition and exercise) when the hair follicles receive inadequate blood flow and nutrients. I noticed that when I exercise 600 minutes a week (mostly zone 2, with some sprinting, lifting) and eat a version of nutritarian including hyper-nourishing smoothies that my hair color returned after having been mostly gray for more than a decade. Cheers!
I lost nearly my whole beard to stress, its mostly white baby hairs now lol aging backwards 😅 and yea the head hairs thinning and going grey 2, i am 30, but only in age not life experience so that sucks, i will be dying my hair and going hard on the rosemary oil, I guess it really is like 99 percent genetics, question is what causes genetics to weaken to the point of going bald, it's not in my genetics my pop died with a full head of hair on both sides, so I better not go bald, it's looking thin on top but maybe it's just from going through bouts of severe anxiety and depression and becoming a dam hypochondriac after learning I have a habit of doing everything wrong according to science, if I had of stayed ignorant it's fair to say none of this would have happened so I don't know, it's like I'm not nerdy enough to handle science so it's done more harm than good thanks to worrying about thing we've never worried about
After 7 years of a pure plant based diet I am now supplementing small amounts of regenerative animal products and I'm already feeling better let's see if it helps my greys. As I got all my greys as a vegan.
@@Amy_Watson You can be B12 deficient without being vegan. B12 comes from dirt, it's first and foremost the fact that we live in cleaner and more sanitized environment than before that explains why supplements are necessary.
Premature graying is defined before age 20 in Caucasians, but before age 30 in African-Americans. Age 25 has been suggested as a cutoff for India. From his previous video
This is the second video in a two-part series on graying hair. If you missed the first one, check out Why Does Hair Turn Gray?: nutritionfacts.org/video/why-does-hair-turn-gray/
You should look into whether eating blackstrap molasses helps reverse graying hair. I tried it once, for a little while, and it seemed to help. Haven't been able to get back into it. Don't really know what to put blackstrap molasses on, lol.
Video summary helps you save time watching
00:40 Oxidative stress: smoking, obesity.
01:29 Reversible: B12 deficiency, hypothyroidism.
02:12 Stress and rapid graying.
03:21 Gray hair and health: mixed evidence.
@@HealthyLife88-t3y thanks !
It's a 4 minute video. Why would anyone need timestamps? Is this what TikTok has done to our brains?
@@levi5073 Ever heard, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all?
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!
@@1Sparkmeister It's a valid point. It's bananas that we need chapters for a 4 minute video now. 😂
@@levi5073Yep. 😢
now if i only had enough hair to worry about
I’m almost 60 and have very little grey hair. I don’t smoke, drink moderately and eat a plant based diet (with B12 supplements). I think the main reason though is that I don’t have a stressful life, nor am I a worrier.
Incidentally my mum told me about a boy who was in her class at school and witnessed his friend get crushed by a train carriage (they were playing around in a goods yard) His hair went white overnight with the shock of it.
0:24 okay but to be fair, that looks awesome
Looks in a mirror, immediately takes B-12 tablets.
Anecdotally, B12, zinc, whole foods, and lots of anti-oxidants is not stopping my progression of greying
Your dietary choices may have significantly slowed down your graying - it’s impossible to know. Do you have any siblings who went gray before you for comparison?
It's gotta be genetics and stress
Try divorce. Single 45 no children, my hair is getting darker and darker every year.
It might be more complicated than it seems. There are many types of antioxydants, for example some which can accumulate (and therefore protect) your brain, and some which does not accumulate in the brain. So it might be that there are certain antioxydants out there which do protect the cells which give hair its pigment. If those were found almost exclusively in say blackberries, then even the whole-food fans out there might not get enough because they just so happen to not eat enough blackberries.
How's your sleep?
I will concur that at age 46, and being about half grey, I do seem to get more respect in the does-she-know-what-she's-talking-about department. The rest of me seems reasonably young so I don't get the let's-dismiss-the-old-lady-treatment yet.
I wonder if I would be even greyer without my B-12 and healthy lifestyle.
Love the vid. Wish we had the full answer to graying.
My Dad had very little gray hair, at 54 he suffered a heart attack on a plane and was in the hospital across the country for a month. When he came back he was surprisingly very gray, then over time he got his colour back.
Sorry to hear that, and hospital food is garbage. It is actually laughable..
My hair went grey very suddenly shortly after my GERD and IBD diagnosis. However, the pain stops me sleeping and eating properly which in turn causes chronic stress and anxiety. When I found a tolerable diet, the pain and thus stress reduced and my hair colour came back. It was very weird.
So its possible it can be reversed if it's stress related hmm that's good to know, explains why smoking causes greys cause nicotine messed me uup
U r lucky to get back black hair. It rarely happens
@@VijayKumar-je1bc light brown--not black. 😀
Just turned 56 and still color my greys every two months or so. Thankful it's just on the sides and a bit in back. Some people look great with grey, but I don't like looking older, or even my age.
It seems that I now have less grey after increasing my B complex to three times a day (I open and split up one capsule), and better managing my reaction to stress. That's the main key! 🔑🧘♂️
Thanks and happy holidays, doc!
I love this channel!
Awesome. My dad is 90 with no gray hear on his scalp. He's in a great shape and most people mistake him for early 70's. I am following suit, being almost a clone of him, and have no scalp gray (or thinning) at 62. Plenty of gray in my beard tho. I hope that doesn't count!
You and your dad sound like interesting case studies. How much do you sleep? How much and what kind of B12 do you take? What do you eat?
@@zorro149 We both sleep 7-8 hrs a night on average. typically 11-7ish. Neither of us take B-12 specifically but there is likely some in the multi's we take. I eat healthier than dad (I'm semi-vegetarian) but he eats pretty healthy for his demographic. He's better about his weight than I am. He's on the money, I'm 25ish lbs over. Working on that.
Thank you!
Fascinating! Thank you
It seems that grey hair will get to us all at some point. I am always fascinated by people in advanced age who have very little grey hair.
how do you know they don't just color their hair?
@@RoughNeckDelta Some people certainly do - and more power to them if they want to do that. But there are some I personally know where this isn't the case.
@@RoughNeckDeltalol because there's grey strands all through it
@adamd9418 I am one of those people. At 70, I am just now starting to see a few gray hairs, but very few. I attribute it to genetics, plant-based since 2007, and being a runner for 46 years. I do supplement with B12 as well.
I got my first gray hair at around 35. It was a nose hair.
Rip Esselstyn has gray hair, and he seems fine. Regarding vitamin B12, Dr. Greger recommends cyanocobalamin and Dr. McDougall recommended methylcobalamin. I take 1,000 mcg of methylcobalamin on Tuesday and 2,000 mcg of cyanocobalamin on Friday, so I'm covered regardless of who is right. I wonder, if I took more B12 during the week, if that might reverse my graying.
Love the idea of mixing up the B12 sources during the week. Since the docs don't agree on this I've been doing a bottle of cyan until it's gone, then replacing it with a bottle of methyl. I like your method better! I don't want to take too much though - love my gray hair and don't want to lose it! 🧓
If your body only needs about 20 mcg of B12 per week and you have unregulated synthetic B12 pills with 3000 mcg of B12 per week what does your body do with the other 2980 mcg of B12 that it does not need and since 100% of the cyanide does get absorbed how will that eventually in time effect the body?
I call them my wisdom highlights. And they are free and don't need any chemicals. Maye grey beautiful!
Zinc deficiency can cause premature gray hair.
Evidence?
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“Serum iron, zinc, and copper concentration in premature graying of hair”
Farahnaz Fatemi Naieni et al. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2012 Apr.
Search Pubmed for it.
That's interesting! My dad is in his 70's, was a smoker since the age of 20 ( has stopped smoking 4 years ago 🙏) and his hair is about 20% gray. I am in my 40's, vegan for almost 9 years (very little processed foods), have never smoked or drank in my entire life and my head is covered with gray hairs! What the heck ?😅😅😅😅. To be fair if it is generic my mom's hair was 50% gray in her 30's.
Maybe gray hair is a sign of wisdom.
You're not going to get the answer from a grey bald doctor who reads short-term studies. The problem is lymphatic elimination pathways gradually congesting over decades. This allows acids to build up around organs/glands, increasing the rate of degeneration. Nutritional solutions can temporarily counter with improved regeneration, but will quickly lose this race.
You can decongest with periodic 100% astringent fruit feasting, then minimizing mucus-forming foods between cleanses. Conventional doctors dismiss this effect because they are taught the lymphatic pathways dumps the waste back into the bloodstream at valves near the thoracic. However the last stop before these valves is the kidneys, where the waste will be filtered out in healthy people. This misunderstanding is also the primary reason they handle chronic and terminal conditions so poorly.
You inherit genetic weaknesses from both parents, but your lymphatic elimination pathways are developed from your mother since these are shared during gestation. So if hers were congested at that time, then you are more susceptible to acidic buildup in the head leading to baldness and grey hair. The same factors eventually lead to dementia, cancer, and other degenerative diseases, so receiving course isn't just about appearance. The most effective fruits are concord grapes and lemons, and the book The Grape Cure is a short read that demonstrates what to expect.
Stress
I started graying very young, like in my early 20s, and none of these conditions applied to me.
Video games cause so much constant stress that cant be good either, i need to give that up asap
many games don't. I've been playing The Talos Principle 2 recently and it's been a great puzzle/philosophical game.
It also depends on your why you play. It should be for your enjoyment.
There is such a thing as a healthy amount of stress. If video games are giving you anxiety, though, then try different games or different genres. I would also try just doing single player games rather than multiplayer where it's the unpredictable behavior of other people (often good, sometimes bad) that can be too much. Games that have excessively addicting gameplay mechanics that are tantamount to gambling (loot boxes) or encourage a lot of grinding/farming are not my idea of a good time.
I bless my genes.
Take B12 : vegetarian; slightly grey at 68, walk: row, cycle : yoga, lift wts , assault bike: ski erg, and yes sex at least 2 times per week
In Ayurveda they say that there are different organs/tissues the body prioritizes in a certain order to transfer the nutrients and energy from our food. Skin, nails and hair being at the end. When your nutrition is bad or you're not living your ideal life, then bad skin, weak nails and weak grey hair is visible.
What evidence led you to believe in Darwinian Evolution?
I think gray hair can also be the result of suboptimal lifestyle (i.e. - nutrition and exercise) when the hair follicles receive inadequate blood flow and nutrients. I noticed that when I exercise 600 minutes a week (mostly zone 2, with some sprinting, lifting) and eat a version of nutritarian including hyper-nourishing smoothies that my hair color returned after having been mostly gray for more than a decade. Cheers!
What about spermadine and graying hair?
Это тот который в ростках пшеницы, сои и гороха, да действительно помогает.
Pineapple?
Not if youare gluten sensitive
I lost nearly my whole beard to stress, its mostly white baby hairs now lol aging backwards 😅 and yea the head hairs thinning and going grey 2, i am 30, but only in age not life experience so that sucks, i will be dying my hair and going hard on the rosemary oil, I guess it really is like 99 percent genetics, question is what causes genetics to weaken to the point of going bald, it's not in my genetics my pop died with a full head of hair on both sides, so I better not go bald, it's looking thin on top but maybe it's just from going through bouts of severe anxiety and depression and becoming a dam hypochondriac after learning I have a habit of doing everything wrong according to science, if I had of stayed ignorant it's fair to say none of this would have happened so I don't know, it's like I'm not nerdy enough to handle science so it's done more harm than good thanks to worrying about thing we've never worried about
So, the same reason for every health issue: stress 😅
Stress is the godfather of health issues, but we can't stop stressing because that's the nature of living.
My white hair is genetic as is my sister’s.
After 7 years of a pure plant based diet I am now supplementing small amounts of regenerative animal products and I'm already feeling better let's see if it helps my greys. As I got all my greys as a vegan.
How is it possible that veganism is the optimal, species-appropriate diet for human beings when it is fatal without B12 supplementation?
Soil depletion
Lmao. You realize animal products only have B12 because they are supplemented to animals right ?
@@Amy_Watson You can be B12 deficient without being vegan. B12 comes from dirt, it's first and foremost the fact that we live in cleaner and more sanitized environment than before that explains why supplements are necessary.
@@ejRecording Yup, pretty much any diet is impacted by this.
What age is not premature. For Frey hair pls
Premature graying is defined before age 20 in Caucasians, but before age 30 in African-Americans. Age 25 has been suggested as a cutoff for India.
From his previous video
Graying in one's 20s and 30s is much more common than people think, because in western society it is almost always dyed.
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