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• ashwaganda / B vitamins

Alternative News:

• Stress May Turn Hair Gray, but Calm May Reverse It - Medscape, 7/8/21 - "They developed a mathematical model to predict what might happen to human hair over time and suggest there is a point in a person's life when stress can temporarily induce loss of color, but that can be reversed if tensions ease"
• Antiaging Products for Skin, Hair and Nails - Nutrition Science News, 10/00
• Hair Graying and Loss - Nutrition Science News, 10/00

Other News:

• It's true: Stress does turn hair gray (and it's reversible) - Science Daily, 6/22/21 - "Hair re-pigmentation only possible for some ... Reducing stress in your life is a good goal, but it won't necessarily turn your hair to a normal color"
• The Grayer His Hair, the Higher His Heart Risk? - WebMD, 4/10/17 - "graying hair may also go hand-in-hand with unhealthy "biological aging," since both unfold along similar lines ... The upshot, he said, is that while graying hair may turn out to be an indicator of risk, most of the focus to date has stayed centered around clearly "modifiable" risk factors, meaning behaviors that patients can change. Those include shedding weight, quitting smoking, and taking steps to reduce high blood pressure and cholesterol"
• Gray hair and vitiligo reversed at the root - Science Daily, 5/3/13 - "people who are going gray develop massive oxidative stress via accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicle, which causes our hair to bleach itself from the inside out, and most importantly, the report shows that this massive accumulation of hydrogen peroxide can be remedied with a proprietary treatment developed by the researchers described as a topical, UVB-activated compound called PC-KUS (a modified pseudocatalase). What's more, the study also shows that the same treatment works for the skin condition, vitiligo"
• Why hair turns gray: Communication between hair follicles and melanocyte stem cells key to mystery - Science Daily, 6/14/11
• Stress Makes Your Hair Go Gray - Science Daily, 6/11/09 - "Those pesky graying hairs that tend to crop up with age really are signs of stress, reveals a new report in the journal Cell"
• Going gray? Scientists uncover the root cause - MSNBC, 3/2/09
• Why Hair Goes Gray - WebMD, 2/25/09
• Why Hair Turns Gray Is No Longer A Gray Area: Our Hair Bleaches Itself As We Grow Older - Science Daily, 2/23/09
• Scientists Discover The Cellular Roots Of Graying Hair - Science Daily, 1/12/05
• Research yields clues to why hair turns gray - MSNBC, 12/23/04
• Graying Hair Yields Skin Cancer Clue - WebMD, 12/23/04
• New Leukemia Drug Appears To Restore Color To Gray Hair - Intelihealth, 8/7/02
• Premature Graying not a Marker of Osteoporosis - Doctor's Guide, 5/13/02
• Premature Graying: Usually No Cause for Alarm - WebMD
• Premature graying: Usually no cause for alarm - CNN, 11/10/99
• Premature grey hair and hair loss among smokers: a new opportunity for health education? - BMJ, 12/21/96