Stress might turn your hair gray, but if you reduce that stress, your hair could actually regain its color again.

28

Pro

0

Against

Evidence from Studies

Supporting (1)

28

Community contributions welcome

28

Quantitative mapping of human hair greying and reversal in relation to life stress

Cross-Sectional Study

Human

2021 Jun 22

The study found that gray hair can turn back to its original color when stress goes down, which supports the idea that graying isn't always permanent and can be reversed when life gets less stressful.

Contradicting (0)

0

Community contributions welcome

No contradicting evidence found

Gold Standard Evidence Needed

According to GRADE and EBM methodology, here is what ideal scientific evidence would look like to definitively prove or disprove this specific claim, ordered from strongest to weakest evidence.

Similar Assertions

When people go through stressful times, their hair might start to grey — and when stress goes down, some might actually see their hair regain color. This has been noticed to happen around the same time as changes in stress levels.

28

0

89%

Stress might be turning your hair gray by messing with your cells, and relaxing could help your hair get its color back.

28

0

81%

Your hair color comes from cells in your hair roots, and as you age, those cells slow down — that's why hair turns gray. But new research says things like stress might also play a role.

1

0

80%

Stress can turn your hair gray by messing with nerve signals in your hair follicles, which damages the cells that give hair its color — and once they're gone, the graying is permanent.

1

0

78%

Going gray might happen because the stem cells that keep your hair colored aren't working properly as you age.

20

0

72%