You may be combing through your hair when you first notice it: a small but present silver strand peeking through. Whether we like it or not, finding a gray hair is inevitable for all of us. Rather than asking ourselves if we’ll get it, the curiosity lies behind why we get it and what we can do to delay it.
While there is a biological reason to explain why this occurs, a question remains — is it possible to reverse graying?
Whether your natural hair is blonde or jet black, melanin (yes, the same pigment that tints the skin) determines your hair’s hue. Melanin, or the pigment we have in our hair, produces melanocyte cells, located within each hair follicle. And these cells produce two different types of melanin, known as eumelanin and pheomelanin.
Eumelanin is a dark pigment, which means that the more present it is, the darker the ...
