The Common Causes of Premature Gray Hair

Graying hair is not always related to one’s age. Gray hair can occur as young as in our teens and range into our late 50's and even older.

Some people start to gray in their early 20's or 30's; this is called premature graying. Their gray hair may look the same when they are older as it did in their 20's or 30's.

               There are different reasons of graying hair, it vary person to person. 

                  Some common possible reasons of premature aging of hair are as follows:

• Lot of stress and tension leads to early graying of hair
• Genetics is another one of the likely causes of gray hair. If your white hair is coming from the front part of your head at young age, then the highest chances are that you have inherited the gift of white hair and unfortunately you can’t control that other than the way to cover it.
• The root of our hair contains a number of pigment cells that produce melanin, melanin, a polymer that gives the growing shaft of hair its color. Melanin production is brought to a halt for a variety of reasons–some indicators of nutritional deficiency or some health issues.
• Certain illness such as prolonged cold, sinusitis, typhoid, hepatitis or even constipation is big reason or any medication, but all of them are a temporary phenomenon.
• Thyroid imbalance is a major reason for Graying hair.
• A deficiency of B12 and Copper cause the halt of melanin production.
• Other nutritional deficiencies are the deficiencies such as iron, folic acid, silica, iodine.
• Ultra Violate rays from sunlight.
• Chemicals from cheap quality shamoos, hair colour and other hair styling agent.

• Smoking is known to decrease melanin production.