Well, hello, hello guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon.

So remember that stress can definitely affect your hair.

The gray hair starts to appear roughly six to eight weeks after the stressor happens.

Stress does not damage the hair follicles, but it damages the stem cells that produce new

melanocytes.

It definitely causes these dormant melanocytes stem cells to have

to wake up, divide, but that makes them actually die off. And so think about doing things that are

going to reduce your daily stress. I recommend that you guys consider platelet rich plasma exercise.

Remember that gray hair is going to happen to mostly all of us, so don't stress about it.

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L.O.L.

The activation of these sympathetic nerves that is going to trigger these problems is really something that's up to you to control.

But with this new study, it demonstrates that when

we remove the hormone noradrenaline from mice who have turned completely gray, their hair can

repigment. So we have some interesting new future ability coming, hopefully with pharmacologic

agents that may be able to block this pathway at the hair

follicle level and perhaps reduce the problem of having gray hairs. Wouldn't that be amazing?

So just to remind you, this new study is pretty amazing because it shows that when you take

mice whose hair has turned gray and we block that hormone nor

adrenaline, we are able to reverse some of the graying.

So this is a real phenomenon.

If you're experiencing gray, think about removing the stress from your life.

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