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HealthFreak wrote:I'm an expert on the subject of gray hair. Mine looks like Anderson Cooper's, he's 41 years old I'm 47.
There was a podcast about the subject on NPR's Science Friday this week. A new study just came out saying that gray hair is caused by too much hydrogen peroxide. Our bodies produce a little bit of it, but if we produce too much it bleaches out the color from our hair.
The next step is to figure out why some people produce more hydrogen peroxide than others. The interviewee on the podcast said it was a major break through to find the mechanism that causes gray hair.
Clary wrote:Jeff posted a link to this "hydrogen peroxide" article on his Facebook page a few days ago, but now I can't find it...
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