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What is the cause of white hair appearance?
Does that results from worrying too much ( can't sleep) and so
many thouhgts in your mind ?!
How do you overcome this problem ?!
Shinoda LP
28-11-06, 08:58 PM
Worry less and get more sleep. Or shave your head off regularly... no hair issue at all.
Navigator
28-11-06, 09:01 PM
Man dont remind me plz ! am the youngest of ma bros yet ma head turnin white !
What is the cause of white hair appearance?
Does that results from worrying too much ( can't sleep) and so
many thouhgts in your mind ?!
How do you overcome this problem ?!
Hair, is like a tube of opaque glass filled with coloured marbles. When your marble making machine stops working (get's old), you are left with translucent hair. Meaning that with no colour marbles, your opaque glass tube will be almost see-through. right?
Same thing with your hair.
Hair colour is melanin, and when the melanocytes in the hair bulb stop producing melanin, your hair goes "clear" and looks white (or grey when you can see other dark hairs through it).
This is all down to your internal biological clock, which genes have alot of effect on. So if you parents had white hair early, you are mostly likely to be the same. You can't control the growth of white hair, so stop trying. And it's not because of worry, though worry surely doesn't do you any favours anyways.
There is something you can do though. Dye it. You will be manually filling the empty hairshaft with colour molecules. That's all.
If you are a guy, get over it! White hair makes a man look sophisticated. :D
I'm worried coz just yesterday I found it :(...... I was suprised coz this the
first time
I'm worried coz just yesterday I found it :(...... I was suprised coz this the
first time
Well it's gonna start one day and yesterday was that day. Don't fret over it. if you found one and it's annoying you, pull it out. It's not true that you will make more white hair grow. If you think about it, your white hair count isn't gonna lesson from now on, so what can you lose? :rolleyes:
Come on man I'm just in the UNI ......... I'm not that old:rolleyes:
Navigator
29-11-06, 03:12 AM
pssssss girls prefer guys with white hair !
Come on man I'm just in the UNI ......... I'm not that old:rolleyes:
but your hair is. :)
If you are 20-ish, your hair bulb has already provided you with about 4 hair life cycles of 5 years each. Like 4 hair lifetimes! lol
Navigator
29-11-06, 03:28 AM
ya5i i have always wanted to tell u but i keep forgetting , anyway ,, your nick is girly ! N i have always thought ur a girl till see u in sport majlas !
hehehhehe .... DoN't WOrry you are not the OnLy one who thought
that way;)
Professor
29-11-06, 03:39 AM
i have white hair .. and it dosnt bother me :D
Professor
29-11-06, 03:48 AM
lol .. im at work now .. and one of the guys here just mentiond i had white hair.
"dont tell me u faked ur birth certificate" :bored:
NiGhTFaCe
29-11-06, 03:53 AM
I guess its something which runs in the family, I face the same thing, so are my brothers.
Nop ........ Nobody in my family have this problem as I call it ..
"dont tell me u faked ur birth certificate"
If I'm not @ this age as the birth certificate ays then I would be younger:)
im not sure if it's a family thing..but my sister and some cousins have this white hair thingie..
one of my friends back in school had a white streak..i loved it! it looks as if she dyed it..
but she used to hate it.. :mmhmm:
don't know about other girls Navi..but personally i find men with white hair attractive :p
Its not bad o c it in a girl coz as you said it loks as if she dyed it
but on a guy in my age .... LOL thats not good at all :(
Metal_Maniac
01-12-06, 09:17 AM
I think the main culprit for greying hair is stress & worry.
sameerb1
01-12-06, 09:39 AM
i have started to grow some white hair. i think dyeing your hair often can also cause the color of hair to turn white
MM.... I agree with that coz after I started worring too much , I notice it ..
sameerb1... I@ve never dyed my hair ..LOL ... I like it the way its (BLACK;))
tiarathrones
02-12-06, 05:14 AM
how do you overcome this problem??
you dye your hair!
how do you overcome this problem??
you dye your hair!
BUT i dont like to dye it :rolleyes:
Come on man I'm just in the UNI ......... I'm not that old:rolleyes:
In that case get married today before tomorrow otherwise you will become lame duck and get rejected the choice is all yours to move fast!!!:)
Not Necessary To Be Lack Of Sleep Or Because Of The Stress, Could Be Genetic As Well.
i have started to grow some white hair. i think dyeing your hair often can also cause the color of hair to turn white
This is false. It's what we call an 'old wives tale'...
The only reason your hair starts going white is due to age and your own genetic clock.
Your hair's colour production is 'programmed' when you are in your mum's belly. So, if it goes white and you happen to be stressed or you happen to have coloured it.. it doesn't mean that they are factors that are effecting it. It just means that someday, your hair colouring mechanisms (melanocytes) are gonna stop working at incidentally the same time you start to colour it, or the same time you've got a bit of stress, or the same time you decided you'll change your diet etc..
In reality, what ever you do, you can't stop it. Because it isn't caused by something that you are doing.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/grayhair.html
and a few hair myths you might wanna check out..
http://www.hair-styles.org/top-10-hair-myths.html
http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/hairgrow.asp
amo_l_oman
02-12-06, 03:47 PM
Ghassan said is genetic, probably my mum went white soon like me
but I suspect he wanted to be polite
I don't know if it is in the family of my biological clock started counting down :p
Anyway, sometimes it do bother me and sometimes I don't care, after all one day it will start, and it seems my day was very soon :)
Navigator
02-12-06, 04:42 PM
wHen a girl get one grey hiarah , she will be checking the mirror 100 times aday !
wHen a girl get one grey hiarah , she will be checking the mirror 100 times aday !
Women have more options than men though eh..
When they are in the eyebrows, she can pluck them and even colour them.. where as men can't - or if they do, they'll look silly and very obvious.
As for terminal hair (hair on your head), women can have a few highlights put through to camouflage them..
I have alot of white hair and I like it.
Oblivious
02-12-06, 06:45 PM
^^ It's because you're sabla's admin:p
I like white hair, it shouldn't be a big deal.
gray (white) hair is called leukotrichia. Causes depends on the following:
- total or partial coverage. Each has its own causes
- age of onset. When did it appear.. at birth or later.
i will try to answer the following questions:
Q1: a cild born with some/few white hairs?
this is not an abnormal thing. I discovered that my son has a single white hair, after a long search...LoL
during the embryo development, Melanocytes (cells which produces the black pigment) originate from the neural crest (spinal cord) at back of the embryo. Then they migrate everywhere in the body in tissues which require this pigment (brain, gentials, hair follicles, skin, iris..etc)...
Hair follicle is the base of the skin, if this follicle does not get the melanocyte then it becomes gray in color.
Q2: in an adult person, a black hair became white, how?
here the case is different. The hair follicle has the melanocyte thsu it was black. However, the gene which used to produce melanin later turned off and no longer producing the pigment.
Control of gene expression is a complex process involving several transcriptional factors which are influenced by hormones, environmental factors, stress, chemical and electricity pulses applied to hair.
the two guys who won the Noble price for medicine this year invented a way to stop gene expression. This is a new tool which can be used to treat diseases specially cancer. if need detail of this tool then search in google about iRNA.
bugzmagnet
03-12-06, 02:15 PM
Another cause of white hair can just be inheritance from past relatives. i dont really see why people should be bothered about getting white hair..i mean when my lil bro will be 17 or 18 all his hair will turn white just like my uncles when they were young.he dosent like it but i think its cool for someone that age to have white hair:).
ToomuchaT
03-12-06, 03:57 PM
.. i started to doubt that stress is one of the white hair appearance causes!!
.. i think it's the inheritance factor that causes it.
This is false. It's what we call an 'old wives tale'...
The only reason your hair starts going white is due to age and your own genetic clock.
Your hair's colour production is 'programmed' when you are in your mum's belly. So, if it goes white and you happen to be stressed or you happen to have coloured it.. it doesn't mean that they are factors that are effecting it. It just means that someday, your hair colouring mechanisms (melanocytes) are gonna stop working at incidentally the same time you start to colour it, or the same time you've got a bit of stress, or the same time you decided you'll change your diet etc..
In reality, what ever you do, you can't stop it. Because it isn't caused by something that you are doing.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/grayhair.html
and a few hair myths you might wanna check out..
http://www.hair-styles.org/top-10-hair-myths.html
http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/hairgrow.asp
Its not genetic in my case here:cool:
wHen a girl get one grey hiarah , she will be checking the mirror 100 times aday !
:hyper: :hyper:
I have alot of white hair and I like it.
coz u've got alot of white hair u dont care but if u have in one side like 10 then it gona bother u :yes:
MsKnuckles
06-12-06, 05:31 PM
I heard white hair's a sign of wisdom :p...
well I've got 3 so far... or wait... 4...
one of them's really long.... long white hair ... wow... sure did freak the hell out of me when I first saw it... but I found it kinda cool... lol...
I heard white hair's a sign of wisdom :p...
I'm not sure ,it is the same in ur case but may be in mine :p
MsKnuckles
06-12-06, 05:52 PM
pardon me? :hmm:... not so soft at heart as you're called are you? :p...
well BE sure there's a HUGE possibility it's the vise versa :p... for reassurance of what you're not sure of :XD:...
pardon me? :hmm:... not so soft at heart as you're called are you? :p...
well BE sure there's a HUGE possibility it's the vise versa :p... for reassurance of what you're not sure of :XD:...
:hyper: :p do u still writin jokes :p
MsKnuckles
06-12-06, 05:58 PM
yeah... you laughing? :hmm:
I'll deal with you elsewhere now... leave the thread for those who're full of white hair wonderment.
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Btw... I heard that if you remove the white hair... more will grow.... true???
I dont know ..... I did not remove it :(
pReTtY_sIcKo
06-12-06, 06:16 PM
i like men with some white hair :)
but i think the causes are
genetics
thinking alot
so dont think alot or color ur hair hehe
You can just chill and forget about it the more you think the harder it gets to believe it's there!:p It's part of growing up I guess:bored:
i'm 22 and thank god i have nooo single white hair so far! say mashallah :yell: :p
hmm i think it has something to do with the gense.. :think:
Arabian Prince
07-12-06, 12:12 PM
Nice thread. :)
I always thought premature white hair appearance was almost certainly stress related. I guess it's not so much stress related than it is related to ones genes. I suppose it wouldn't bother me so much, not unless I start seeing them all over at a relatively younger age than that of my parents.
um albanin
07-12-06, 07:27 PM
تعيرني بالشيب وهو وقار... يا ليتها عيرتني بما هو عار
What is the cause of white hair appearance?
Does that results from worrying too much ( can't sleep) and so
many thouhgts in your mind ?!
How do you overcome this problem ?!
I think in English its called grey hair, I guess the white people call themselves white so had to give other name :p
Grey Hair is a symptom of improper protein synthesis. Hair grows white when the colour pigment (melanin) ceases to be produced in the hair follicle and small air spaces take its place.
Grey hair is usually associated with ageing, but this is not always the case. Early greying of the hair is basically hereditary, but can also be influenced by stress. A person experiencing a prolonged period of stress and anxiety may notice, over a period of time, white hairs gradually appearing. Malnutrition, worry, shock, deep sorrow, tension and other similar conditions may also slow down the production of melanin resulting in grey hair. Sever illness too can stop or affect the production of melanin. However, scientists have not been fully able to explain the exact causes of this change in colour of the hair.
Now ,I am astonished to know that it can be reversible!! well that what the indians beleive. Things like:
*Amla paste massage ! it seems has done wonders in preventing & reversing grey hair?
*Massage your hairs with coconut oil and Lemon everyday for at least 15 minutes. There are instances of people having black hairs even up to the age of 60-70 years by using this method...
No wonder the indians smells coconut oil all the time (my grand mother is the same, likes the coconut oil , she is 84yrs & she has only 10% of her hair grey .
Shaikhah
07-12-06, 09:52 PM
تعيرني بالشيب وهو وقار... يا ليتها عيرتني بما هو عار.
that's only if guy is poor but the rich one even if he was all grey wouldn't be told that lol.
I think in English its called grey hair, I guess the white people call themselves white so had to give other name :p
HAHAHAH nice one ma'am. :color:
... but can also be influenced by stress. A person experiencing a prolonged period of stress and anxiety may notice, over a period of time, white hairs gradually appearing. Malnutrition, worry, shock, deep sorrow, tension and other similar conditions may also slow down the production of melanin resulting in grey hair. Sever illness too can stop or affect the production of melanin. However, scientists have not been fully able to explain the exact causes of this change in colour of the hair.
So, they blame it on stress but can't really prove it. :rolleyes:
This is the usual "blame it on stress" game. When there is something unexplainable, blame it on stress. After all, what's the probability that you may be experiencing stress, worry or tension?
Is there anyone in here who has doesn't experience stress?
So doctors or scientists blame the single most common factor found in everyone. Stress.
A good trichologist will tell you the graying or whitening of the hair is only caused by hereditary factors, ageing and the rare occurrence of hair growing back from a state of temporary alopecia (baldness).
It's really quite simple. Just like when your printer cartridge runs out of ink.
btw, this is my area of expertise. :hyper:
Some who is good with control of gene expression can explore the causes of this condition...
Gene expression microarray is a racent advanced DNA technology which studies expression of 40,000 genes in one run.
most recent study (May, 2006) on melanin expression using this technique was done in USA.. Click here (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16914083&query_hl=3&itool=pubmed_docsum)
11 genes were found to be essential for melanin expression...
these genes should be further studied to find the effects of stress and other factors...
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