Im 16, and i have LOTS of white hair..?

WHY?

IS THIS UNHEALTHY?

Im 16, and i have LOTS of white hair..?

No gray hair is just has to do with the pigment of your hair not anything that is unhealthy but a lot of things cause gray hair or at least speed up the process.

The most common reason is heredity; you can blame your parents for this one. Those with prematurely gray hair tend to have inherited the genetic predisposition for this to occur earlier in life while those who do not gray until much later in life are also following their own family genetics.

However, there are other reasons why the hair can gray. A major factor is smoking. Smokers are 4 times more likely than nonsmokers to develop prematurely gray hair. The reason is thought to have something to do with nicotine causing vasoconstriction of the blood vessels which supply the hair follicles resulting in limited oxygen supply.

Other causes include Vitamin B-12 deficiency, thyroid disorders, anemia or some viral infections. The concept of going gray due to shock or fright is not understood medically or physiologically but there have been random scattered reports. Marie Antoinette is said to have gone gray overnight while in the tower. It is hard to explain why or how this could occur. You would imagine that the hair would have to grow out gray; that the normal hair color on the hair already grown could not possibly be lost.