2006-09-08 14:45:12 · 18 answers · asked by Von 5 in Health ➔ Mental Health
definately. stress releases chemicals from your brain that is damaging to your entire body, including your hair follicles. it can cause stomach problems and those white sores in your lips. anyway, stress ain't good.
2006-09-08 14:48:59 · answer #1 · answered by JetAlone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too Much Stress May Give Your Genes Gray Hair
NY Times ^ | November 30, 2004 | BENEDICT CAREY
Posted on 11/29/2004 11:19:23 PM PST by neverdem
Some stressful events seem to turn a person's hair gray overnight.
Now a team of researchers has found that severe emotional distress - like that caused by divorce, the loss of a job, or caring for an ill child or parent - may speed up the aging of the body's cells at the genetic level.
The findings, being reported today, are the first to link psychological stress so directly to biological age.
The researchers found that blood cells from women who had spent many years caring for a disabled child were, genetically, about a decade older than those from peers who had much less caretaking experience. The study, which appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also suggests that the perception of being stressed can add years to a person's biological age.
Though doctors have linked chronic psychological stress to weakened immune function and an increased risk of catching colds, among other things, they are still trying to understand how tension damages or weakens tissue.
The new research suggests a new way that such damage may occur and opens the possibility that the process can be reversed.
2006-09-08 14:49:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah! My 31 year old brother in law has gray hairs growing on the sides. He and my sister go through tons of stress.
2006-09-08 14:49:34 · answer #3 · answered by Carrie! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I assume gray hair comes mostly from genetics, but I have also heard a copper deficiency leads to premature gray hair. I have seen people that do a lot of drugs go gray prematurely, so maybe stress, or constant shock to your system contributes to graying. But I am not a doctor.
2016-03-27 03:29:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! I found a stray gray hair in my full head of red hair when I was just 14!
Crazy. I grew up in foster homes, so I know what stress is. And yeah, it will give you gray hairs.
2006-09-08 14:48:13 · answer #5 · answered by trash1ey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't have proof, but my father is fool of stress and is full of poking gray hairs growing out of him. Be careful, everyone is different.
2006-09-08 14:48:33 · answer #6 · answered by rgusme2 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes try smoking a cigerrette when stress comes along. Or hit the gym and beat up the bag..
2006-09-08 14:48:58 · answer #7 · answered by ~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it can't, grey hair is caused by the hair losing pigment and only over long periods of time! If you are prematurely grey it is in you genes not how stressed you are!
2006-09-08 14:53:13 · answer #8 · answered by Cheryl G 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes! Check out a pictures of U.S. Presidents prior to them taking Office. Then check their pictures after only four years.
2006-09-08 14:47:52 · answer #9 · answered by Sentinel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
*gasp* I hope not! Because if that's true, I'll be the only 18 year old with a head of gray hair! Unfortunately, I think it IS true.
2006-09-08 14:46:41 · answer #10 · answered by kid_at_heart 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋