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What causes your hair to turn gray?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.loobie has it. Hair typically turns gray as a result of ageing. Pigment in the hair shaft comes from special cells at the root of the hair. These cells are genetically programmed to make a certain amount of pigment (melanin) at specific ages. At some point in the ageing process, these cells make less and less pigment until the hair has very little pigment. White hair has no pigment, and gray hair has some but not as much as red, black or brown hair.
I'm 33 and pretty much a Silver Fox, started at 19. It must be a melanin thing, because I'm otherwise young looking, stress free and live a good healthy life. I admit it was a shock at first, but I soon got used to it - far worse things can happen!
I do think a lot of it is hereditary though - both parents and grandparents went grey early so it was kind of expected for me. It doesn't bother me in the slightest - all my mates who are thinning wish they could have loads of hair like me, and it has never done that man Clooney any ham, so I sit easy with it!