Today, hair loss is one of the most concerned topics for most workers, including the post-90s and post-00s workers.
And older workers are no longer worthy of hair loss.
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Because a lot less of them were set aside first, the few hairs were still turning white, which undoubtedly made the scenery on the head that was already showing signs of ruin even worse.
As the saying goes: smile, ten years less; sad, white head. Whether laughing every day will make people look 10 years younger, no one knows, but white hair will make you look older than ten years old.
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What if I have white hair? Did your first thought come out of the hand? But hesitant and worried that more white hair will grow after being pulled out? Today we're going to talk about graying hair.
The main reason for the natural graying of hair is due to heredity and aging, while mental and other disease factors such as anxiety, stress, irregular work and rest are important factors that lead to premature whiteheads.
Part of the reason for having jet-black and shiny hair goes back to the genes of your parents, which accounts for more than 30% or even 70% of the population[1].
Of course, the direct result of local hypopigmentation problems in the scalp is hair whitening, such as vitiligo, anemia nevus, etc., and some are related to concomitant systemic diseases, for example, adolescent gray hair may be related to gastrointestinal dysfunction, lack of amino acid benzoic acid, pantothenic acid [2].
In addition, premature gray hair may occur due to cardiovascular disease, pernicious anemia, and hyperthyroidism [3].
The more common reason is to reflect on your lifestyle and mental state!
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The formation of white hair is mainly due to the melanocytes in the hair follicles for various reasons can not produce enough melanin [4], just like a printer without ink, and this ink is disposable, can not be added or replaced. Natural whitening is equivalent to running out of ink, logical, it is difficult to reverse, this is the occurrence mechanism of physiological gray hair.
Many patients with "less whiteheads" are also due to the lack of "ink" caused by genetic factors, and they have limited or diffuse gray hair at a very young age.
The whitehead caused by other reasons is equivalent to a temporary failure of the printer and cannot play ink. In general, in this case, to find the cause of the failure, symptomatic treatment is still promising to reverse the situation and re-grow black hair.
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But in either case, if you directly pull out the white hair, it is equivalent to violently smashing the printer, this simple and rough way will certainly not make the printer work properly, so it will not be able to grow new black hair.
The saying that the white hair is pulling out more and more does not know how to achieve national unification, anyway, the people of the earth know, is there a scientific basis in the end?
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First of all, white hair is not contagious, but due to the inactivation of melanocy cells in a single hair follicle under the action of various factors. Therefore, if you just pull out a single white hair, it will not cause the surrounding hair to turn white as a result.
But take into account the reasons for your gray hair, such as due to mental factors or drugs and other reasons, generally not only one, but may not appear at the same time, so when you pull out the existing white hair, the surrounding other hairs that are in the process of whitening are gradually exposed, resulting in the illusion that the hair is getting whiter and whiter.
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In addition, a large number of hair follicles in the scalp are closely hugged, and each hair follicle unit will grow 1 to 5 hairs, so in the process of one or more hairs being violently pulled out, it is bound to affect the hair follicles where it is located and the surrounding hair follicles, which may induce damage to melanocytes, so there may be more and more white hair around.
There are also some people who like to pull hair, including healthy hair, and then cause a large area of artificial hair loss area or white hair, which belongs to the "hair plucking habit", is a disease, to be cured!
Speaking of "one night white head", the first thing that comes to mind is the classic "white haired woman", which does not only appear in film and television drama works, although "one night" may be a bit exaggerated, but it is completely possible to grow a large number of white hair in a short period of time, and it is really possible in real life.
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The large number of gray hair in the short term is related to subjective and objective factors.
For example, long-term unhealthy life schedules, accompanied by some systemic diseases, such as pituitary or thyroid-related diseases, systemic nutritional metabolism disorders, high fever, etc., or sudden increase in mental and stress so that the body is in a state of stress, hormone secretion disorders, the cell function of synthetic melanin in the hair papilla is also destroyed, there will be the so-called "overnight whitehead", some people are not even eligible for white hair, direct hair loss, please pay attention to it.
First of all, please accept the reality first, as we get older, we will definitely grow gray hair more or less sooner or later, sooner or later things must be accepted with a normal heart!
Look around and see if your peers have the same problem?
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Theoretically, after the age of forty, the hair will gradually become white, and 6% to 23% of people will have gray hair by 50% by the age of 50 [5].
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Of course, familial heredity also occupies an important proportion, because genes determine the amount of "ink" in your hair follicles, if you are born with a lack of "ink", your gray hair will naturally appear earlier than your peers, after all, it is still common for familial white hair to be older or heavier.
Second, please reflect seriously!!! Are there any partial eclipses? Because malnutrition, such as lack of protein, vitamins and certain trace elements (such as copper), can make hair white. Also care if you sleep enough? Long-term insomnia not only survives your spirit, but also boils out gray hair and hair loss. Or is it always in a state of anxiety, melancholy, or sadness? In reality, the case of "white-haired women" is actually not uncommon.
Adult life is filled with all kinds of pressure, pressure can not be avoided, but I hope that everyone can face it calmly, diet diversity to ensure balanced nutrition, maintain a good mood and healthy schedule is the top priority, multi-pronged approach, so that the problem of gray hair can be solved, and prevent problems before they occur.
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Third, although the current treatment of gray hair that has grown is very limited, there is no need to worry about sudden gray hair. Targeted solutions to the causes of the disease, it is still possible to make white hair black, such as active treatment of systemic related diseases, the so-called "disease treatment, disease prevention" is called.
Hair follicles and hair have their own relatively stable growth cycle, if you exclude the gray hair problem induced by other organic diseases, then simply relax, eat well, sleep well, give the hair follicles a little time and space, and when they are revived, there is still a chance to significantly improve.
Even if you can't turn white hair black, you can also perform a mask treatment, wig sets of different lengths or straight or rolls make it easy to have a variety of styles, and colorful hair dyes provide unlimited options.
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Ten thousand steps back, white hair is not useless, naturally there will be its good, full of white hair is to make people feel that life experience is rich, scholars are full of style, many young people and stars who look forward to white hair and sigh spend a lot of money to dye their hair into grandma gray or white gold, this fashion wind takes turns blowing, maybe you accidentally catch up with the trend pioneer!
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