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now i’m always trying to understand why things  occur in the body and so this is an interesting  

topic why stress can potentially grow your  hair now we know that stress does that but  

why right i always want to know why i found out  and i want to share this reason with you now  

of course you have the normal aging process that  causes grayness you have genetic factors but there  

are also epigenetic factors which are above your  genes so you’re not defined by your genes you can  

always do something about it with your nutrition  your diet your environment etc but what i want to  

talk about is premature graying because you’re going  through too much stress first let’s talk about  

what is the mechanism okay well here’s what  happens in the hair follicle you have these little  

cells called stem cells which creates the pigment  okay so you’re looking at brown hair right here  

that is created from melanocytes which is  created from stem cells which are actually  

directly contacting the hair root now  when researchers tried to figure this out  

they first looked into the possibility  of it being an autoimmune disease with  

some type of inflammatory thing and that wasn’t  the case then they thought it probably was high  

levels of cortisol but they actually removed the  adrenal glands and exposed the subject to stress  

and there was still a graying action and then  they found this when a hair root is exposed to  

chronic stress you get an elevation of something  called noradrenaline noradrenaline is like the  

precursor to adrenaline it’s responding from the  flight or fight mechanism and they found it was a  

neurotransmitter nor adrenaline that causes these  stem cells to migrate away from the hair root  

into the skin so you lose your stem cells now you  lose your melanocytes and you lose your ability  

to keep your hair pigmented now the question is  what can you do about it well you want to keep  

your stress low that is the key you want to sleep  more you want to exercise more you want to take  

b1 on a regular basis i recommend getting it from  nutritional yeast and really just identify what is  

the cause of the stress what is stressing you  out and do something about it all right there  

you have it why stress can grow your hair hey  before you go if you’re benefiting from any of my  

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