white hairs appearing on ones head even when d age is not ripe.what causes it and how does one treats it?
Having premature gray hair is purely hereditary, Some people result
to plucking them out, but this doesn't seem to be as effective as dying
your hair completely, A good hair stylist will be able to perform this professionally,
otherwise u can opt for purchasing a bottle of dye at any beauty store.
The root of every strand of hair is surrounded by a tube of tissue under the skin that is called the hair follicle. Each hair
follicle contains a certain number of pigment cells. These pigment cells continuously produce a chemical called melanin
that gives the growing shaft of hair its color of brown, blonde, red, and anything in between.
Melanin is the same pigment that makes our skin's color fair or darker. The dark or light color of someone's hair depends
on how much melanin each hair stand contains. People can get gray hair at any age. Some people go gray at a young
age - as early as when they are in high school or college - whereas others may be in their 30s or 40s before they see
that first gray hair. How early we get gray hair is determined by our genes. This means that most of us will start having
gray hairs around the same age that our parents or grandparents first did.
Well for me I see people wearing their gray hair sometimes with pride, eg Taylor Hicks of American Idol who is only 29,
and Anderson Copper, of CNN, who started having it at just 20, and they even refer to it as "Salt and Pepper".
Good Luck.
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