What is the reason for white hair? Is it easy to get excited?

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White hair is divided into early white hair and old white hair. Old white hair is usually considered to be a natural physiological phenomenon, but early white hair is still a big problem for young people. White hair is due to the formation of melanin due to melanocytes, melanosomes less or due to tyrosinase activity. How to distinguish different kinds of white hair? I introduce the method of traditional Chinese medicine to distinguish white hair.

What is the reason for white hair? Is it easy to get excited?

Reason 1: the lack of nutrition and protein can also lead to the decrease of hair pigment, turning brown or gray. Lack of essential fatty acids can also make hair pale. Lack of vitamin B12, folic acid, benzoic acid, etc., can make hair gray. Lack of trace elements such as copper, cobalt and iron can also lead to white hair. Too much sugar can make hair yellow. Hypogonadism can cause early white hair.

The second reason is that Chinese medicine believes that young people are strong in blood, easy to be excited, hyperactivity of liver fire, damage of liver yin, resulting in insufficient Yin and blood; after middle age, they fail to think, stagnation of liver qi, disobedience of spleen, loss of spleen circulation, lack of Qi and blood biochemistry; or congenital deficiency of kidney essence, or due to long illness, old age, deficiency of body, damage of essence, deficiency of essence, unable to generate Yin and blood, liver blood deficiency, all can Cause hair to lose nourishment, hair early white.

The third reason: the early white hair before old age often has family history, which is autosomal dominant inheritance. Pernicious anemia, hyperthyroidism, cardiovascular disease, etc. are prone to gray hair. Serious emotional effects can lead to vasospasm of hair nutrition, reduce the secretion of melanin by hair mother melanocytes, affect the synthesis of melanin particles, and make hair white. Long term suffering from tuberculosis, malignant tumor, gastrointestinal disease, diabetes can also make white hair appear in advance.

matters needing attention

Nowadays, the pressure of life is high, which may lead to white hair. Improper use of hair dyes and cosmetics, as well as biased eating habits, pernicious anemia, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism and so on may cause the increase of white hair.