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by jenniferprofitt on August 3rd, 2005
yes
Too Much Stress May Give Your Genes Gray Hair
By BENEDICT CAREY
New York Times
Published: November 30, 2004
Some stressful events seem to turn a person's hair gray overnight.
Now a team of researchers has found that severe emotional distress - like that caused by divorce, the loss of a job, or caring for an ill child or parent - may speed up the aging of the body's cells at the genetic level.
http://summer.antiagingconference.com/ar/exhibitions_stress_may_give/
by greybald on June 27th, 2008
premature gray hair is in your genes – it is the same process as age-related graying but starting earlier – your pigment producing cells die and cannot be rejuvenated. However, too much stress can speed up the aging process of your hair and skin
by shameen on December 22nd, 2009
Yes, grey hair can also be caused by the stress. Because Stress hormones like cortisol can mess with melanocytes (simply, hair cells). Suddenly, the cells have trouble surviving and/or producing the pigment that keeps your hair its original color. Hence, those pigments disappear and out pops a gray (or white) hair.
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