Andrew Huberman· PhD
Gray Hair Reversal, Stress; Inflammation & Aging
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Gray Hair Reversal, Stress; Inflammation & Aging
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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There are data from @ColumbiaMed that stress is part of the gray hair story.
um, I love the results showing that increased stress grays hairs >> and reducing stress ungraes hairs.
His lab also famously showed that graying of hair is indeed related to stress and is also fortunately reversible.
Yes, hair greying is reversible. Working on it [@MitoPsychoBio: Since reporting that human hair greying is reversible, linked to life stress, and associated changes in mitochondrial biology, we have received >300 testimonials confirming the observations https://t.co/zgo4QGQZ0c
But what's also remarkable about that finding is that it proves that gray hair is reversible.
Because graying is part of not just a genetic program, but can be accelerated by things that are also known to accelerate aging itself, such as psychological stress.
Stress can accelerate the graying of hair which was reversible for some people if the stre