Hair turns gray as we age because the follicles at the base of the hair shaft cease to produce melanin. Each follicle contains a finite number of pigment cells. These pigment cells produce melanin, a chemical that gives the hair shaft (the visible strands) its color (black, brown, blonde, red, and all shades in between.) The darkness or lightness of your hair depends on how much melanin each strand contains. Melanin is the same pigment that makes skin tan upon exposure to the sun.
With age, the pigment cells in the follicle gradually die off. As they do so, that strand will no longer contain as much color and will show up as silver, gray, or white as it grows. Eventually, all the pigment cells will die and the hair becomes completely gray.
Why do hair turn white as we grow older?
A mineral produced by the scalp causes the colour of hair to remain singular. Then, as the scalp mineral qualities get weaker, the mineral stops getting produced and the color gets white.
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Why do hair turn white as we grow older?
signs of aging! You ain't young anymore, so slow down! Its an age give-a-way for mother nature.
I actually like to say its your body telling you its going into remission for death someday.
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