Today let's talk about two really important things to prevent premature graying of your hair.

Now if you look at my hair at the top, okay, all this is natural. Of course you can see,

let's see on this side little gray right here, a little gray right here. There is a factor of age and

eventually everyone will have gray hair, but the whole goal of this video is to show you how to

prevent the prematureing of this graying of your hair. So many people are getting gray hair just way too

early. It's not all genetics. Genetics do play a part. But there's also something called epigenetics,

which are things that you can do, which are above your genes.

So even though you might have genes that give you a propensity to get gray hair, there's a lot of

things that you can do about it. But there's two really important things you need to know.

One is the actual pigment in the hair that gives you the coloring. And the enzymes to allow that

pigment to occur are dependent on a trace

mineral called copper. If you are deficient in copper, you might have a tendency to get gray hair

prematurely. But why are people deficient in copper? Yes, it could be coming from your diet because you're not consuming high copper

foods, which I will talk about shortly, but there's another thing that you need to know.

High levels of cortisol, as in stress, deplete copper because cortisol uses a lot of copper enzymes. So in other words, more stress equals more

demand for copper equals more loss of copper. And when you run out of copper and you don't have

enough enzyme, that enzyme is called tyrosanase to make this melanin to keep your natural color in your hair, things start to go gray.

So how does this apply to you? Well, stress. You probably even experience the more stress that

you have, the more gray hairs you might find in your head. So of course, the solution is to

do whatever you can to reduce stress. But in the meantime, as you're doing that,

there's other things you can do to increase copper. Like eat more foods, higher in copper.

I don't necessarily recommend taking a copper supplement by itself. I'd recommend that you try

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