Once the follicle switches off its melanin production, the hairs it produces will henceforth be grey. And you can't switch back on the melanin. For instance, eating a diet rich in Vitamins B6, B12 both B vitamins can be found in meat, fish and dairy products and D spinach, kale, sardine, salmon may help your hair to preserve its existing pigmentation and delay overall greying, said Dr Tan.
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Wellness Myth busting: Pluck out a strand of grey hair and 10 more will grow in its place CNA Lifestyle continues its series debunking some commonly held notions about health and wellness. Art: Jasper Loh. Girl, you definitely have better things to do than stand in front of a mirror obsessing over gray hairs. They look awesome. Let's go get drinks. According to sources at Health Tap, plucking damages the root of your hair , which can lead to permanent loss of hair growth in that area. Are hairless patches really better than a couple of grays?
Sources at the Huffington Post suggest instead of plucking, cutting the strand is the best way to get rid of gray hairs. You won't be tugging at the follicle, and can snip away to your heart's content. Really though, why would you? After all Bloggers, celebrities, that tattoo'd chick you envy at the coffee shop day after day It is from this follicle that your hair grows out and the melanocytes around the hair follicles produce melanin. Melanin is the pigment that gives your hair its natural color.
When there is a reduction of melanin production , the hair due to factors such as ageing, stress, etc. Free radicals produced due to oxidative stress can also damage the cells in your scalp and lead to premature greying. The hair follicle is traumatised when you pluck out a hair. But it slowly heals and a new strand of hair emerges from the follicle. But if you go on plucking on the same spot over and over again, the hair follicle will be eventually damaged.
The cells around the follicle will die and the follicle will shrink altogether. So you will not get any new hair on that spot and it will lead to a bald patch on your scalp. Or resort to other means like using hair colours to cover it up. Repeated plucking of that white hair hurts the cells in your scalp and may cause scarring or even infection.
If you keep on plucking at the same spot, the hair follicles will shrink or die out. So there will be no new hair on that spot, leading ultimately to thinning of your hair.
What would you prefer, a few grey hair or less hair altogether? Plucking can alter the natural texture of your hair. The new hair that grows after plucking may be wiry and coarse. Greying is an irreversible process. So hair which have already lost their natural color cannot be reverted back to their normal coloration.
But you can certainly take some steps to prevent certain forms of premature greying.
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