Can Gray Hair Protect Us From Cancer?
June 23, 2009 by Aly Walansky
Filed under Hair Care
If this is true, I will never whine again about a few gray hairs…
Today in the New Scientist there was an article I instantly got sort of engrossed in – it was an overview of a study being done on laboratory mice that sees a relationship between going gray and protection against cancer cells.
Basically, cells called melanocytes produce the pigments that color hair and their numbers are supported by stem cells. Hair goes gray when the number of stem cells in hair follicles declines.
So, now the news is that Emi Nishimura of Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan have …read more
