Want Your Natural Hair Color Back?
If you Google ‘gray hair treatment’ or similar search term, you are likely to find pages and pages of solutions, treatments and cures for graying of hair. But is it really possible to ‘cure’ grey hair and reverse this sign of aging that many of us tend to have rather early in life?
What Causes Grey Hair?
Genetics, environmental pollutants, age, lifestyle related habits and other reasons can all contribute to grey hair.
- A very significant proportion of those who grey early, probably had a parent (or two perhaps) who also grayed early, and so genetics is clearly a predictor of graying.
- Smoking, is a predictor of going gray before one’s time and is known to have a correlation with the discoloration of skin as well as hair.
- Stress, is another factor that contributes to grey hair; as the old adage goes, worry can in fact turn your hair white.
- So work related or personal tensions and so on can all cause one to have gray hair earlier than nature ordained.
- Certain health problems could also contribute to gray hair – A thyroid disorder, anemia related to a Vitamin B12 deficiency and other deficiencies could contribute to gray hair. Getting these conditions within control by taking medications or nutritional supplements could also help to control gray hair in many cases.
- Leukoderma or Vitiligo where the skin gets progressively depigmented (loses color or pigment) can also trigger graying of hair before its time.
Can you reverse gray hair?
There are a number of natural solutions offered that claim to cure gray hair – for instance mixing yoghurt and black pepper and applying this to the hair, applying certain oils and lotions to the hair, using tea leaves or henna are all supposed to help darken grey hair. Indeed these may well work for most people; however for many others this may have a very temporary effect.
Then there are all sorts of ‘medicines’ or pills and powders that are advertized as the definitive cure for hair turning white before its time. Unfortunately a large majority of these claims are fraudulent or misleading at the very least – many of these formulations claim to be natural or safe and effective and yet in most cases this is very far from the truth!
Some people speak of gene therapy as being one of the possible treatments for reversing the whitening of hair. However as of now there is no such therapy that exists; in the future who knows!
So in conclusion, it has to be admitted that the best options around are the natural ones, they may work for you or they may not. But in the very least you can be sure they won’t do any harm. One may choose to either color the hair or wear a hat or to flaunt that gray hair – is it not after all, a badge of wisdom?
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