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Gray hair turning brown
Has anyone experienced gray hair turning dark brown??? I am 40 years old and am having an unusual regeneration of brown hair. I started going gray when I was in my early 20's. (No I am not coloring it brown!!) I have a significant amount of brown hair growing in between what was previously completely gray!! I am not taking any medications and I have not changed my diet... I am perplexed as to why it is changing back to brown??? I am perfectly healthy. I am not taking any vitamins either... Has anyone ever heard of this???
My mom does not eat healthy whatsoever, and when she turned 60 in June, her hair started turning back to black. So i think it has nothing to do with what someone is eating but something to do with the hair follicles and regeneration. Im going to research this more to see if i can find an answer.
I had very light brown hair all through my early 20s when it started going grey. I had a lot of grey by 40. Now I am 45 and all the grey is gone but my hair is nearly black. I have no idea why this is.
Interesting thread. I am a 9-year cancer survivor. Started life blonde, then darker reddish blonde, then some grey, then cancer/chemo/no hair, came in white, turned back to my teenage blonde color, then (I'm 57) some white and some gray, but blended with my blonde/red. (Lucky. And lucky to be alive and to have hair at all). Anyway--now some dark brown roots have come in. My first thought was CANCER, again. Mild panic/mild disbelief. So... I'm very glad to read here that it might instead have to do with going gluten free about 4 months ago, which relieved YEARS of GI distention, misery, etc, and I started sleeping better, so maybe it is my hair follicles making color again for a good reason, so I will keep that hope. I will start taking D and fish oil again too. Thanks everyone. Peace.
If anyone finds out why gray hair turns brown after almost 50 years of being gray, let us know. I would rather be gray than this color of brown.
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Well I too am shocked..but what I see amongst us ..is a couple of common factors..some folks are taking fish oil & vitamin D..less stress .more exercise. As I too have done exactly the same....Some one also told me to eat liver...
I had the same happen. I have less stress now, better sleep and nutrition. Beats and whites started falling out and brown came in.
That's grays and whites fell out NOT beats and whutes.
Hi marlac2012. What do you think happened that this happened for you? I want that to happen for me, lol.
My natural hair color is a very dark brown. I first noticed white hairs when I was 17. I am now 31, probably about 1/8 of my hair is white now, sprinkled all throughout my head like highlights. (At first people wonder how I get those highlights because a hair stylist couldn't do it, lol, then I tell them it's just my white hair, haha).
I have noticed some of my hairs grow back in dark brown from time to time too. More so in the last 6 months or so. I went through a very traumatic event about a year and a half ago and I drastically changed the way I was living my life. I started eating healthier, managing my stress levels, doing less, busy less, pray and meditate more, etc. 12 step programs have helped with this a lot actually, staying serene and calm as much as possible, keeping a better mindset in stressful situations. I think my hair turning back to dark brown would be a result of better stress management and eating healthier. Exercise levels have been about the same my entire adult life, so I don't think exercise is part of my equation for white hair turning back, but exercise helps with health overall, so either way, it's good.
With the research I've done on this it seems that eating healthy (B vitamins, copper, and other vitamins and minerals, etc) stress reduction, and exercise seems to change hair back to natural from white. So basically, living healthy, which would help us all in all aspects of our lives! :)
I have noticed some of my hairs grow back in dark brown from time to time too. More so in the last 6 months or so. I went through a very traumatic event about a year and a half ago and I drastically changed the way I was living my life. I started eating healthier, managing my stress levels, doing less, busy less, pray and meditate more, etc. 12 step programs have helped with this a lot actually, staying serene and calm as much as possible, keeping a better mindset in stressful situations. I think my hair turning back to dark brown would be a result of better stress management and eating healthier. Exercise levels have been about the same my entire adult life, so I don't think exercise is part of my equation for white hair turning back, but exercise helps with health overall, so either way, it's good.
With the research I've done on this it seems that eating healthy (B vitamins, copper, and other vitamins and minerals, etc) stress reduction, and exercise seems to change hair back to natural from white. So basically, living healthy, which would help us all in all aspects of our lives! :)
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