Why does our hair bleach and how do we restore its color?

People who bleach their hair develop considerable oxidative stress due to the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in their hair follicles, which causes their hair to whiten from the inside out

A Lithuanian elderly couple in a folk dance. From Wikipedia.
A Lithuanian elderly couple in a folk dance. From Wikipedia.

European researchers discovered why our hair bleaches in old age - people whose hair bleaches develop significant oxidative stress due to the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in their hair follicles, which causes their hair to whiten from the inside out. In addition, the researchers found a drug that helps reverse the process and restore the hair's original color. It was found that this medicine is also effective for the skin disease in the band (vitiligo, the disease from which Michael Jackson suffered).

 

"Sudden loss of original skin and hair color can profoundly affect the people who experience it and in many ways," said physician Karin U. Schallreuter, author of the paper from the Institute of Pigmentary Diseases in collaboration with researchers from the University of Greifswald in Germany, and the Center for Dermatology in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. "We have proven that there is indeed an improvement in people's quality of life after re-pigmentation, full or partial re-pigmentation."

In order to reach this breakthrough, the researchers examined an international group of 2411 vitiligo patients. The researchers found, for the first time ever, that patients with vitiligo have the same oxidative stress as observed in other patients whose disease is associated with a disruption in the activity of antioxidants within their bodies, including less or impaired activity of the enzymes catalase (catalase, an enzyme that breaks down hydrogen peroxide), thyroxine reductase (thioredoxin reductase) and the enzyme responsible for repair mechanisms called methionine sulfoxide reductases. These findings are based on basic science and clinical observations and are the ones that have led to successful results in patients with regard to renewed pigmentation of the skin and eyelashes.

"For many generations various treatments have been invented to hide the bleaching hair," said the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal The FASEB Journal, "but now, for the first time ever, a practical treatment has been found that treats the root of the problem. Despite the fact that this is sensational news, the finding What is even more exciting is that this treatment is also effective against vitiligo Effective treatment for this condition has the potential to significantly improve the well-being of many people's lives."

In other words, returning the color to the Shiva hair will add not only to health, but also to the quality of life for all of us.

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Comments

  1. I read the article how it relates to luteligo problem of lack of pigmentation how to restore the tone

  2. Greetings,
    I read the article again and again but I didn't understand what can be done, to restore the natural hair color? I would love to hear/read about it.

  3. How can I find out from whom I can undergo treatment? I am 36 years old and part of the white hair

  4. My uncle was named after his grandfather who was killed in World War I while serving in the German army as an artillery officer. Like him, two other cousins ​​were named after the same grandfather. One of them perished in the Holocaust with his parents and sister and the other was killed during his service in the IDF. All three died without leaving descendants. Their common grandmother died destitute after the German government denied her her widow's pension. tragedy.
    Does Israel, your cousin, share other things with you besides name? Do you have common interests?

  5. Right. almost everyone. My uncle was hit by shrapnel that entered his brain through the left temple. His injury did not seem serious to the doctor who examined the wounded prisoners, and he remained in captivity for many months without proper treatment. Because of this, he remained paralyzed in the right half of his body until the day of his death. Before the war he was a talented technician, and one of his duties was maintaining the Schneller tower clock.
    And yes, my mother is also a grandmother in her own right.

  6. According to this nonsense, applying antioxidants to the hair will restore its natural color

  7. jubilee.

    Go believe grandma's stories...

    Besides, if I remember correctly, almost all of them returned from the Jordanian captivity in good condition, didn't they?

  8. Correction: I asked my mother again. Her mother's hair (not her grandmother's) turned completely white in a very short time - just a few days - after her eldest son was captured

  9. ארי

    Thank you for the information.
    In light of the comments, I've already started to fear that I never had a grandfather 😉

  10. Lagshad:
    The drug apparently causes the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide, or other active forms of oxygen, stored in the hair follicles.

  11. In a quick search (I didn't search too hard), I found this:
    "...What's more," says Dr. Luria, "there is a case called alopecia areata, when the melanin is damaged by antibodies created by the immune system and the hair falls out. The body recognizes the hair as a foreign agent, activates antibodies against it and causes the hair to detach from its base. But the white hair is not damaged by this process, because it does not have the melanin pigment. This is where the folk story comes from, in which they tell of a man who turned white overnight. He didn't whiten, the black hair just fell out and only the white remained"
    http://www.nrg.co.il/online/archive/ART/632/782.html

  12. You are welcome to tell this to my grandfather.

    He still lived a happy life even though his hair turned white in a night or two or even a little more.

  13. Human hair grows at a rate of about 1.25 cm per month.
    Even if all the roots of the hair have stopped producing pigmentation and even if the length of the hair is only one centimeter (which is quite rare for those who do not go bald) it will take about a month for the hair to turn completely white.
    Usually it will take longer because almost everyone has longer hair.

  14. Can be.
    It could also take two days.

    But still you can live a happy life. Even with white hair.

    And even if the grandfather or the father is not such a hero.

  15. As far as I know, the hair cannot whiten overnight because even if the hair root stops creating pigmentation - the part of the hair that has already grown does not lose its color.

  16. As someone who is "infected" with vitiligo,
    - Dermatologists do not know how to explain the cause except for the explanation
    Because "it's a reaction to stress", in my case probably excessive exposure to the sun,
    - I know that for years there has been a treatment by combining the application of basic ointments
    and illumination of the place with ultraviolet light, the treatment is long and prolonged,
    Local and not suitable for large "surfaces".
    - As far as I understand, the treatment/medicine that is being reported on is exactly this treatment,
    As someone who is interested in the subject, I did not find "news and sieges".

  17. If it is important to you: then it means the second. (The phrase probably took root in the mouths of the members of that generation, and after '45 they got used to calling the 2nd MA by the same name as well).

  18. R.H. Refai.M - What happened to your grandfather was in the First or Second World War? On the one hand you wrote "The Great One" and it fits the first and on the other hand you talked about a Nazi tank and it fits the second.

  19. To add to the words of R.H. Rafai.M.:
    My mother says that her grandmother's hair turned white overnight when her eldest grandson was captured by the Jordanians in 1948

  20. My grandfather, whose memory is blessed, a hero decorated with medals, experienced firsthand the horrors of the Great War.
    His hair turned white overnight as a result of hiding in a ditch while a Nazi tank passed over his head during the fighting.

    Rather, he lived a full and happy life after the wars, despite his snow-white hair.
    Of blessed memory.

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