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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 a 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 prematuring 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

complete 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 tyrosinase 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’ve probably even

experienced 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 recommend that you try to get

it from the foods however you could take

a copper supplement but you have to make

sure that it also has other trace

minerals especially zinc in there

because zinc and copper work together

you never want to just take like a

standalone Trace mineral with copper and

the ratios need to be correct too you

usually need like a 1 to 10 ratio one

copper to 10 zinc so in other words you

don’t want to take a lot of copper you

just want to take sufficient amounts now

before we get into the foods for that

let me just explain this other thing

that’s equally as important and that is

basically age the aging process what

happens when you age you get this

accumulation of hydrogen peroxide that

builds up in the hair shaft okay and

hydrogen peroxide causes like a

bleaching effect of your hair so the

other question is okay how do you slow

down the aging process well you’d want

to slow down the accumulation of

hydrogen peroxide to it at the very

least keep the color in your hair

there is an enzyme that naturally breaks

down hydrogen peroxide very quickly

actually it’s called catalase but before

you go out and buy another supplement

with catalase I don’t recommend that I

recommend eating foods high in catalase

which I’ll explain in a minute but let

me just first explain a little bit more

about catalytics because it’s very

interesting catalase breaks hydrogen

peroxide down into water in oxygen like

one molecule of catalase

can break down a million molecules of

hydrogen peroxide in less than a second

so by having enough catalase in your

body you can slow down this hydrogen

peroxide phenomena that occurs with

aging and as one side note your immune

system okay uses hydrogen peroxide like

the white blood cells use hydrogen

peroxide as a weapon against pathogens

so if you have this low-grade infection

or you know a lot of times people have

chronic fatigue syndrome they have this

like Epstein-Barr virus or some type of

herpes virus that kind of keeps coming

out of remission in remission that type

of thing that can be releasing a lot of

hydrogen peroxide so having a healthy

immune system is really important so

number one we need to lower our stress

as well as increase the copper to build

the enzyme to keep the pigment in your

hair okay and then over here we need to

increase catalytes to keep this hydrogen

peroxide as low as possible so what are

the foods that are highest in copper

all of the Seafoods shellfish especially

oysters are very important and secondly

mushrooms eating more mushrooms have

that copper-based enzyme tyrosinics and

by the way you can also get copper in

organic grass-fed beef liver and if

you’re vegan you can also get it from

spirulina so that’s those Foods now what

about foods that can increase head lace

you can get catalase from grass-fed beef

liver vegetables especially cruciferous

vegetables and Sprouts or micro greens

are loaded with catalase so when you

have your salad each day make sure you

add some microgreens or some Sprouts

that way you can get a little bit more

catalase and of course if you’re having

a salad you know maybe you do arugula as

your base because that’s a cruciferous

and then you can also saute but not

overcook other cruciferous vegetables

and of course on top of all that you

want to work on your stress you want to

do things exercise to release stress you

want to also maintain a stress-free

attitude about life and that could too

serious and stuck in stress you want to

avoid smoking alcohol junk Foods sugars

refined carbs and one more point about

catalase

I found one study that showed that you

don’t want to go low-fat a higher fat

diet can help increase catalase as in

the ketogenic diet so we keep coming

back to this healthy version of the

ketogenic diet that I keep recommending

where you’re doing nutrient dense foods

where you’re doing cruciferous

vegetables where you’re doing grass-fed

meats and even organ meats and if you

don’t like organ meats you can always

get those in the supplement and one last

a real interesting point about catalase

I found another research study on mice

okay so if you have any pet mice this

could apply that found when they

stimulated the the gene for catalase

they there was a significant increase in

lifespan which is interesting which

would make sense because catalase works

on your mitochondria and it’s an

antioxidant and too much hydrogen

peroxide can create a lot of free

radical damage and destroy the

mitochondria so now that we covered the

premature grain of the hair let’s talk

about the hair in general is there other

things that can make your hair healthier

and the answer is yes in this video you

can find out