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Curious Cases

The Shocking White Hair

Curious Cases

BBC

Technology, Science

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Why does human hair go grey and is it ever possible for it to go white overnight from shock? Hannah and Adam explore why hair goes grey, how much stressful life events and a lack of sleep can speed up the process. They hear from the pilot whose hair turned white after a flight where all 4 of his engines failed after flying through a volcanic ash cloud - was the shock responsible? They also uncover new research which has shown it's possible for greying hair to return to its natural colour and ask if this finding could be exploited to uncover a cosmetic way to reverse hair greying?

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.8

MUSIC

0:08.0

MUSIC

0:11.2

I'm Dr Adam Rutherford.

0:12.5

And I'm Dr Hannah Fry.

0:13.9

And you are going to send us your everyday mysteries.

0:16.7

And we are going to investigate them.

0:18.7

Using the power of...

0:20.0

Science!

0:20.8

Science!

0:21.5

Science!

0:22.4

I like it.

0:23.4

MUSIC

0:26.1

Hello, Curios.

0:27.3

Now, last week, at the beginning of the show, we mentioned how...

0:31.0

Well, you know, we'd lost count.

0:32.2

Or we'd stopped counting how many episodes we'd actually made.

0:34.7

We'd mentioned that a few times.

0:35.9

A few times.

0:36.5

And then I actually went back, because I suddenly thought,

0:38.5

we must be close to the big time.

0:41.5

What a century.

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