Re: Cool hair, good evidence?

[Guest guest]

As I heavily follow equine nutrtion issues, it is my understanding

that copper is the mineral to which you refer.

VACHE

--- In , " haecklers " <haecklers@...>

wrote:

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> A nutritionist told me last year that grey hair is due to mineral

> deficiency.

[Guest guest]

Maybe in horses, but it's my understanding that many people have an

abundance of copper, due to copper pipes, and copper residues on food

from agricultural chemicals. She definately said trace minerals.

> >

> > A nutritionist told me last year that grey hair is due to mineral

> > deficiency.

>

[Guest guest]

On 9/30/06, haecklers <haecklers@...> wrote:

> Maybe in horses, but it's my understanding that many people have an

> abundance of copper, due to copper pipes, and copper residues on food

> from agricultural chemicals. She definately said trace minerals.

Copper is a trace mineral. It's my understanding also that copper is

responsible for the brown hair pigment. The deficiency could be

metabolic, in which case the " abundance " of dietary copper might not

be important. Or there could be other factors in the pigment of which

I don't know about, or there could be trace minerals involved in

certain enzymes that assemble the copper-based pigment or put it into

the hair, and so on.

Chris

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[Guest guest]

At age 25, my hair started to go gray. I went 100% raw foodist a few

months later. The gray hair all disappeared in a couple of months. I

don't know if it turned brown (my normal hair color is brown) or just

fell out and was replaced by dark hairs.

mike

--- In , " haecklers " <haecklers@...>

wrote:

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> A nutritionist told me last year that grey hair is due to mineral

> deficiency. At the time I had dysbiosis, lyme, and probably other

> problems. Today I found a hair in my head that was half white, half

> brown (brown part still attached). How cool! I thought the white

> hairs would fall out and be replaced by brown ones, not just change

> half way through the hair like that! I do believe the salt, vitamin

> C, and kimchi I made are responsible for correcting the dysbiosis and

> thus my mineral deficiencies.

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