Why Do People Get Premature Gray Hair?
Heredity An article published in a 2005 issue of the “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” reports that heredity seems to be the primary determining factor when it comes to the age people begin to notice those first gray hairs. Actually, while it is not uncommon for Caucasians to show some signs of graying by their mid-thirties, most 50-year-olds despite race or gender are already at least half way there. Premature graying occurs in a person’s twenties or thirties, but even teenagers can sometimes find a gray hair or two. If your parents’ hair turned gray at an earlier age, then chances are that you will see gray hair at a younger age, too. Since hair turns gray slowly, you can rest assured that you are not going to wake up one morning to look in the mirror and discover a full head of gray hair. The process occurs over time and is related to pigment cells in the hair follicles dying. For most people, it can take more than 10 years for all of their hair to turn gray. Naturally, gray ha
