Is the myth of white hair caused by worrying too much is true scientificly?

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― curriousor, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

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― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Depends what you mean by "scientifically".

It's pretty established that high stress levels cause premature aging, but I don't think that it's very likely that someone's hair would go white overnight, for example.

― She's In Parties (kate), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

What's the deal with the white patch at the back of Henry Rollin's head? Does he just worry a little bit?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

this could explain why i first got grey hairs when I was in my 4th or 5th year of university.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Because you were worried about Rollins?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

I don't know -- I do think that a very stressful experience or illness or injury, whatever, can set it off. I just learned the other day that my great grandmother, the incomparable Ida Belle Smith, had white hair from her early 20s. Apparently she had a very difficult second childbirth at which the old country doctor finally used ether to knock 'er out, and after which ALL of her hair fell out. My mother says when it grew back, it was snow white.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

My dad's mom also had snow white hair starting in her early 20s.

― Sarah Tallboots McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

"Smith"???? Lordy no, it's Ida Belle Moore. My mother would kill me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

a friend of mine grew a white patch (of hair) on the back of his head after a particularly stressful semester in college. it's snow white, resistanct to dyeing and you can't cut it.

well you can, but it's still really white and mysterious looking.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Because you were worried about Rollins?

aren't we all?

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Isn't that called piebaldness? That streak of white hair? I don't remember where I heard that.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

ive just seen on tv a man who was in jail for 20 days for something he didnt do.
when he came out, the camera caught him with half-white hair.
20 days before that - it was totally black.

― proofy, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Jailhouse shampoo is no good.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but it happened suddenly, it wasnt always like that. xxpost

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

no hair-dye in the slammer?

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Re Rollins: Some people are just born with white patches of hair -- it's sort of the hair equivalent of a birthmark, I think. My high-school friend Adam has one. So does John Henson, who hosted TV's Talk Soup.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

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