Gray Hair Vitamin

People view gray hair as a sign of stress and worry or ageing. Your hair can turn gray due to health, heredity and environmental factors, but the predominant cause aging.
 
Your hair starts turning gray when your body stops producing the color-producing pigments called melanin. Eumelanin and pheomelanin are the two types of melanin, the mix of which determine the hair color. Eumelanin is dark brown or black in color and Pheomelanin is reddish yellow. The amount of melanin in the keratinocytes decreases with age, hence in simple words gray hair is hair with declining levels of melanin. White hair has no melanin at all. The first gray or white hair strand usually appears on the temples and on the top of the head.

Men hair starts to gray around age 30, while women hair strand starts graying around age 35. Smoking. Illnesses, Pernicious anemia, drug treatment and alternative medicine can be some of the factors contributing to graying of hair.

There may be premature graying of hair due to excessive intake of tea, coffee, alcohol, meat, and fried, oily, greasy, spicy, sour, and acidic foods, because all these food stuffs reduce the moisture and nutrients reaching the hair follicles. 

• Lack of copper may lead to drop in melanin. Eat foods that are rich in copper e.g. crab, oysters, sunflower seeds, cashews and almonds.
• Iron & iodine taken in the form of sea food give better result. Carrots, bananas & similar other vegetables and fruits are also rich in iodine.
• Copper, iodine and copper are the three anti-graying vitamins. They belong to B group. The three anti-grey hair vitamins are produced in the intestinal track by bacteria. Thus yogurt is also an excellent home remedy for graying of hair.
• Avoid foods loaded with artificial colors and preservatives, as these put a strain on your digestive system and can lead to dry, brittle hair and a dehydrated scalp. Too many carbohydrates, such a pasta and bread, can diminish levels of antioxidants in your body that are needed to neutralize free radicals.  
• Use sage or tea to temporarily coat the hair shaft, it hide the gray hair. Due to lack of moisture gray hair is coarse and wiry. Use olive oil, avocado or bananas are as hair mask, once a week.