To prevent grey hair

[Ava]

Friends and relatives have asked me what I'm doing to prevent grey hair.

There's that awkward moment when you remember you're in your 40's. I guess I've been fortunate...though I suspect the reason for this is, I eat a lot of dark chocolate, which contains copper, which apparently is a strong anti-greying mineral.  Chocolate does have its side effects, so while I've succeeded in one area, it's probably taking a toll in other areas. 

So, another nutritional avenue...catalase:

www.leaf.tv/articles/what-foods-have-catalase-to-reverse-grey-hair/

"Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Bradford discovered that grey hair is caused by large amounts of hydrogen peroxide that builds up in hair follicles, bleaching hair and preventing the melanin that produces color from synthesizing pigments. According to the National Institute of Health, levels of hydrogen peroxide in the body must be minimized by antioxidant enzymes such as catalase, which breaks hydrogen peroxide down into water and oxygen. Many foods contain catalase, and including them in your diet can prevent or reverse aging effects such as grey hair."

Foods are listed in the article: beef liver, various fruits, avocado, sprouts.

Also:

"Supplements can be used, but are not as effective as fresh, whole foods. Taking supplements such as manganese, copper, zinc and selenium helps your body produce more catalase."

[Violets]

I've had not grey, but white streaks for at least ten years, lol. I started getting odd white hairs in my twenties! So I think I'm just going to stop dying it, and rock my white streak. No amount of dark chocolate is going to change my white hair!

[Deleted]

Well, luckily I love avocados, cucumbers, celery and bananas! Almonds are also considered good for preventing grey hair.

[anela]

I really need to get back to making my smoothies. I've also seen pumpkin seeds mentioned as helping in this area.
My aunt, the one I have a lot of problems with right now, recommended copper back in 2009, when I first started to panic over things like that. I started taking colloidal minerals again last summer, which some people claim helped to reverse grey hair, but I only ordered it for a couple of months. I'm just not ready for all of the grey that will come through if I leave it alone. Dad says i don't have that much, and I told him he only thinks that, because I dye it and he doesn't see it. There's too much.

[Ava]

I think grey/white hair is beautiful.

But I would definitely be upset if I had grey hair now, myself. It would feel like it's not an accurate reflection of who I am. I would definitely dye it.

At this funeral...sorry to keep mentioning it, but it was a major event, seeing people from my childhood again...I was amazed to see one of my friend's cousins, who is beautiful and younger than me, growing out her roots, which are almost pure grey.

OMG to consider this woman with granny hair, that is all wrong. She's about 40, with her face she could pass for much younger...why let that illusion go to waste, having grey hair? Too soon for grey. I didn't counsel her on this point, lol. It's her choice. Just....thank God for hair dye, when the chocolate, nuts, etcetera don't work anymore.

[minceymouse]

I started getting grey hair at 16... SIXTEEN!

[Ava]

I feel bad about what I said about grey hair. One of these "Why did I say that?" moments. Sorry if I offended anyone.

Well I really didn't want to go grey before, when I said I wasn't ready. Now I am psychologically more prepared for it.

It's still not grey, though.

Here's another article mentioning catalase (see OP).
selfhack.com/blog/novel-solutions-to-prevent-graying-hair/

"The following substances have been found to increase catalase: Crimini mushrooms, Sweet potatoes, Chayawanprash or Amla, Raw Honey, Ceylon Cinnamon, Cocoa, Tea, Fish Oil, Kombucha/ACV, Flax, Tulsi, Fenugreek, Ginseng, Rooibos, Soy, Grape seed extract, Milk thistle, Resveratrol, Astragalus, Rehmannia, Curcumin, Reishi, RLA, Coq10, Bitter Melon, Gynostemma, OLE, Dan Shen, Ashwagandha, Bacopa, Gotu Kola, Rhodiola, Berberine, Carnitine, Ginger."

[justjuni]

Granny hair....

[lumina]

Ahhh Ava no worries. Its just course of the world, some people get sooner and more grey than others, I am happy for anyone not getting grey early. I suppose if I wasn`t now and then dying my hair I would be all grey, but I am in my mid 40`s, and that´s just it (btw I hve been eating dark chocolate and other chocolate all my life, more than I should have,b ut in my case it did not work in this way of preventing my grey hair, well probably the other food I also ate was the problem )

Anyway while I do not want to wear my hair in grey, I am not too upset about it either. I am not a young woman anymore, so that`s just how life is.

[Ava]

Nov 22, 2020 14:50:38 GMT justjuni said:

Granny hair....

❤️

[Deleted]

I am grey and it's taken me a while to prepare for it. One thing that helped me to accept it was to see glamourous role models happily going grey. This includes some high achieving cousins as well as a whole bunch of actors (female) who do everything else to keep young but wear their grey hair proudly. I had been colouring my hair and of course, missed all the varying degrees of pepperiness. So, I recently had my hair highlighted, i.e., stripped of colour in very fine streaks. It is kinda looking more natural now. I think it goes well with my studies.

[Ava]

Some of my friends who are my age are grandparents by now

My thinking about grey hair has evolved since I started the thread. Probably just afraid of my own mortality. Since the current crisis I look at things differently. I'm okay with going grey since I have a mentality in place now that can handle it. Made peace with my departing youth and welcome the next stage.

After working at a grocery store in the aisle that stocks hair dye, I understand better how much work that is. Not sure I would do it.