--answer--Scientists discover cause of grey hair!

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Attention parents: It's not your kids that are making you go gray. Your hair is simply building up too much hydrogen peroxide.

Bottle-blondes may be a fan, but hydrogen peroxide, which is produced naturally in the human body, interferes with melanin, the pigment that colors our hair and skin.

The body also produces the enzyme catalase, which breaks down hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen. Or at least it does for a while. As we age, catalase production tails off, leaving nothing to transform the hydrogen peroxide into chemicals the body can release.

Actually catalase is only one of the enzymes used by the body to decompose peroxides. There is also glutathione peroxidase, selenium methionine peroxidase, and most importantly superoxide dismutase (SOD). Why is SOD the most important in this point? Because it is SOD that is also responsible for producing the body's hydrogen peroxide. 

So, as hydrogen peroxide builds up, we go gray, concluded researchers at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom, who last week published the results of a study in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology's online journal.

But wait, Moreless thinks all real science is a bunch of hogwash. Only his riduculous BS has any validity in his mind.

Experimental Biology's online journal.

Reversing the process
"This new insight could open new strategies for intervention and reversal of the hair graying process," wrote the study's lead author John Wood, who died last month.


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The studies were based on analysis of cell cultures of human hair follicles.

In addition to lacking catalase, the follicles of gray-haired people also had far fewer hair-repair enzymes, which in turn drove down production of melanin, the scientists found.

Genetics play a role as well, causing some people, such as Caucasians, to gray earlier than others, like Asians.

Scientists suspect the same mechanism also may be responsible for a condition known as vitiligo, where white spots appear in the skin.

Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease. The low affinity antibodies are targeting melanin producing cells for destruction by the white blood cells. This has been known by mainstream medicine for a very, very long time. How old is this study you are citing? From 1776? Please, at least get some up to date research!!!

"It gives you insight into how we age in general," Gerald Weissmann, professor of medicine at New York University, told Discovery News. "They got the molecular basis of aging down pat."

Skin cells produce small amounts of hydrogen peroxide as part of the body's oxygen cycle. The chemical serves to kill bacteria.

Hydrogen peroxide is also generated by healthy cells and immune cells to kill cancer cells and activate white blood cells. It can only do this though in the presence of an alkaline source as hydrogen peroxide is stable in an acid environment. And it cannot do squat unless it is broken down to release a singlet oxygen. The same applies to bleaching hair. In order for hydrogen peroxide to oxidize anything it must break down from H2O2 in to H2O and O. The O is a powerful oxidizer with the ability to kill pathogens, cancer cells, and bleach a substance in sufficient quantities. Again though, in order to be broken down by contact with a sustance it must come in to contact with an alkalinizer. The reason they use acidic substances like phosphoric acid and sodium thiosulfate to store bought 3% peroxide is because the peroxide is stabilized by acid environments and quickly decomposes in an alkaline environement. So if Moreless was correct then his protocol would be causing a lot of people to become prematurely gray.

Scientists are hopeful there may be a way to remix the chemical soup to keep color in our hair, which no doubt is of interest to a hair-care industry that will be worth about $42.5 billion worldwide by 2010, according to a market report published last year by Global Industry Analysts.

Weissmann predicts it won't be long before products to remove hydrogen peroxide from the hair — and the body in general — are created.

"The rule goes when basic science is discovered it is quickly followed by a product," he said.

© 2009 Discovery Channel



Answer: Keywords for study: Melanin "Pineal Gland" "Calcified pineal gland +Calcification "pineal gland" seratonin melatonin

When we ask ourself what Melanin is and what it is made of we may better understand?

What may we come up with that may be as such?

Melatonin: C13H16N2O2

Melanin and melatonin are not related. They are not formed from each other, and they have totally different functions in the body. Of course if you even had the slightest clue of what you were talking about then you would have actually realized that!!!

Basically we may be talking about a Hormone?

Then we need to ask ourself what may control the Hormones our body may produce and How these may be produced and what Alkaline Minerals these may need to be produced?

Again it still may boil down to a lack of the needed Alkaline Minerals !!!!!!!!

The part about peroxide interfering with melanin production sounds like a ploy to scare folks from using peroxide?

Thus I would not put much faith in this idea !

Smile Tis your choice.