- Some people can rock gray hair. George Clooney comes to mind. We're still on the fence with Jon Bon Jovi going gray.
- Other's purposely dye their hair to be gray (Lady Gaga) And then there's the rest of us, who are not happy when the grays show up. It's expensive to maintain.
- A new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons is the first to offer quantitative evidence linking psychological stress to graying hair in people.
- The biggest reason why we go gray? STRESS! So stop stressing.
- Researchers were surprised to discover that hair color can be restored when stress is eliminated.
- The researchers, whose study was published June 22 in eLife, analyzed individual hairs from 14 volunteers.
- “There was one individual who went on vacation, and five hairs on that person’s head reverted back to dark during the vacation, synchronized in time,” the study’s senior author Martin Picard says.
- Time to book a vacation and stop stressing. Take a look....
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