Contents:
- Medical Video: 10 Hair Care Myths You Should Stop Believing
- Have gray hair? You have to look at these 6 unique facts
- 1. Reduced hair pigments
- 2. Can be triggered by cigarettes
- 3. Genetics can also affect
- 4. Do not pull gray hair
- 5. Through the age of 50 years, gray hair will definitely increase
- 6. The gray hair texture and black hair are different
Medical Video: 10 Hair Care Myths You Should Stop Believing
He said, gray hair is a sign of aging. In fact, gray hair does not only appear in people who are elderly, you know. There are many facts about gray hair that might surprise you. Anything huh?
Have gray hair? You have to look at these 6 unique facts
1. Reduced hair pigments
In every place where hair grows, there is melanin, which is a pigment cell that is responsible for giving color to the hair. Well, unfortunately as we get older, these melanin cells will decrease, making new hair grow lighter in color. Then, when the follicle loses this pigment altogether, the longer the hair is colorless.
Not only parents can lack hair pigments, but some people can experience it. This indeed depends on the pigment levels of each person. Therefore, gray hair is not identical to the elderly.
2. Can be triggered by cigarettes
According to research written in the Indian Dermatology Online Journal, smoking habits can cause hair to turn gray before the age of 30.
The study involving 207 participants did not know for sure how cigarettes can affect hair pigments. But the researchers suspect that this is related to oxidative stress due to smoking affecting melanocyte cells.
Melanocyte cells play a role in producing melanin. So if the cell is damaged, the pigment that is formed is also getting smaller.
3. Genetics can also affect
Who says only people who are elderly or just adults have gray hair? In fact, children and teenagers may have gray hair, you know. Yes, this is believed to be due to genetic or hereditary factors.
This causal factor cannot be changed, so you will have gray hair at a young age, you may experience this.
4. Do not pull gray hair
Maybe some of you think that gray hair should not be revoked because it makes it grow more and more. For example, if you remove 1 piece, you can grow 3 strands in white. Is this true?
Actually stopping pulling gray hair does not make this gray hair stop growing or getting less. If you pull out one strand of gray hair, when the strands of hair grow again, most likely it will also remain white. Other strands of hair that are next to it are not affected by this condition.
Except, if the strands of hair next to it also don't have enough pigment, surely the strands of hair will turn white too. But this is not due to "contagious" from the hair next to it because melanin is thinning.
What you need to worry about after repeatedly pulling gray hair is that your hair follicles can be damaged. When hair follicles are damaged, over time the follicles no longer grow hair. Your hair can look thinner.
5. Through the age of 50 years, gray hair will definitely increase
In general, entering the age of 50 your white hair will be more and more than usual. Even this can change half your black hair to white. This is a natural thing, because of the aging process.
However, again this is actually influenced by many things. It could be that your hair is half white before turning 50 years old or vice versa, the hair remains shiny black even though it has entered its 60s.
6. The gray hair texture and black hair are different
Gray hair has a thinner texture than black hair because the hair cuticles are thinner. Gray hair can also lose water faster so gray hair usually feels dry, brittle hair and more coarse than black hair.
The scalp also produces less oil as you age, so your hair will dry out more.
Therefore, more attention is needed for gray hair. The trick, do not be too exposed to the sun, keep the hair moist, avoid hair from various chemicals and contaminated water.
