Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

Gray hair color typically occurs naturally as people age, usually turning their hair from its natural color to gray and then to white. More than 40 percent of Americans have some gray hair by their fortieth birthday, but white hairs can appear as early as childhood. The age at which graying begins seems to be almost entirely based on genetics. Sometimes people are born with gray hair because it is passed down genetically. Many people use hair dye to disguise the amount of gray in their hair.

The change in hair color is caused by the gradual decrease of pigmentation that occurs when melanin ceases to be produced in the hair root and new hairs grow in without pigment. Two genes appear to be responsible for the process of graying, Bcl2 and Mitf. The stem cells at the base of hair follicles are responsible for producing melanocytes, the cells that produce and store pigment in hair and skin. The death of the melanocyte stem cells causes the onset of graying.

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

because your hair follicles ran out of pigments

idk...sounds good though lol

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

Because your hair starts to lose its pigment.

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

Yea, and how come in shows up in the wrong places?

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

Your hair eventually runs out of color pigment. Same thing that happens to dogs, lol.

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

Pigment cells die off.

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

Genetics.

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

wisdom

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

Acording to genetics, people tend to grey with age due to the breakdown of the melanin.

It's actually like an aging disease, but depending on your gnetic makeup, can be either non existent or rampant.

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

Scientists just recently figured this out, I read.

They figured out that there are little glands that produce the pigment that colors our hair, and these glands die off as we age and so hair just comes out uncolored, that is white or gray.

Interesting, isn't it?

If we could figure out a way to replace those glands or keep them alive, we could have our natural hair color our whole lives.

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

if u have light hair you r more likely to get grey

if u have dark hair you r more likely going to get white

The reason we get grey or white hair is because we lose the pigmentation in our hair causing it to lose color. Basically we stop producing melanin at one point and it grows out with any color.

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

stress

Why do we get grey or white hair as we age?

Genetics has far more to do with it then age does.

Proof in point - my father was graying as a teen. By his late 20s he was more gray then black. I found my first silver hairs at 12. I saw a photo of my Aunt who was 14 and had more gray hair then people in their 50s.