Message debates -possible solution

[Guest guest]

I think this is a great idea, madam moderator! :-)

bek

In a message dated 12/12/2008 12:46:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

kiddietalk@... writes:

Save up all the links that you want to send here. Put them all

in 'one' message -and send them out as " _____ links for the day "

Ta-da! You get your messages out and those that do or don't want to

read them can find them all in the same spot to read or delete them.

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[Guest guest]

i second the motion!

kris justice

p.s.- , did it say anything about cinnamon and honey turning grey

hair back to its original shade? ;-)

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> I think this is a great idea, madam moderator! :-)

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> bek

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> In a message dated 12/12/2008 12:46:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

> kiddietalk@... writes:

>

> Save up all the links that you want to send here. Put them all

> in 'one' message -and send them out as " _____ links for the day "

> Ta-da! You get your messages out and those that do or don't want to

> read them can find them all in the same spot to read or delete them.

>

>

> **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and

> favorite sites in one place. Try it now.

>

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[Guest guest]

OMIGOSH-- if only it WOULD!!! I've just turned 39 and have discovered that

grey hairs MULTIPLY DAILY past the age of 39!!!

I think I'm almost ready to do a wash-out dye thing

bek

In a message dated 12/12/2008 10:28:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

kris.justice@... writes:

p.s.- , did it say anything about cinnamon and honey turning grey

hair back to its original shade? ;-)

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[Guest guest]

But I hear Green Tea, Red Tea and White Tea are MUCH healthier

(altho a bit tasteless, I admit)

and I am loving the fact that you're on Facebook now!

LOL

bek

In a message dated 12/12/2008 10:52:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

kiddietalk@... writes:

Now everyone go make a cup of black tea and add some

cinnamon and honey and reduce your stress which will in theory reduce

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[Guest guest]

Hey a and Becky - my new facebook friends!!!

Well see there you go - you dig deep enough and perhaps find a teacup

of truth. Now everyone go make a cup of black tea and add some

cinnamon and honey and reduce your stress which will in theory reduce

the progression of gray hairs! As far as changing the color back

from gray...outside of Loreal -never tried honey and cinnamon -but

crayons may be fun for the kids to try? (JUST KIDDING!!!)

So a cup of tea a day to keep the gray away?

(two articles below on how that theory may be possible!)

October 24, 2007

Fact or Fiction?: Stress Causes Gray Hair

Scientists have a hunch that the gray hairs we dread (or welcome) may

arrive sooner with stress

By Coco Ballantyne

Legend has it that Marie Antoinette's hair turned white the night

before she was guillotined. Presumably the stress of impending

decapitation caused her locks to lose color within hours. Extremely

unlikely, scientists say, but stress may play a role in a more

gradual graying process.

The first silvery strands usually pop up around age 30 for men and

age 35 for women, but graying can begin as early as high school for

some and as late as the 50s for others.

Graying begins inside the sunken pits in the scalp called follicles.

A typical human head has about 100,000 of these teardrop-shaped

cavities, each capable of sprouting several hairs in a lifetime. At

the bottom of each follicle is a hair-growing factory where cells

work together to assemble colored hair. Keratinocytes (epidermal

cells) build the hair from the bottom up, stacking atop one another

and eventually dying, leaving behind mostly keratin, a colorless

protein that gives hair its texture and strength. (Keratin is also a

primary component of nails, the outer layer of skin, animal hooves

and claws?even rhinoceros horns.)

As keratinocytes construct hairs, neighboring melanocytes manufacture

a pigment called melanin, which is delivered to the keratinocytes in

little packages called melanosomes.

Hair melanin comes in two shades—eumelanin (dark brown or black) and

pheomelanin (yellow or red)—that combine in different proportions to

create a vast array of human hair colors. Hair that has lost most of

its melanin is gray; hair that has lost all of this pigment is white.

At any given time, around 80 to 90 percent of the hairs on a person's

head are in an active growth phase, which may last anywhere from two

to seven years. At the end of this stage, the follicle shrivels, the

keratinocytes and melanocytes undergo programmed cell death

(apoptosis), and the follicle enters a resting phase, during which

the hair falls out.

To begin building a new hair, the follicle factory must be rebuilt.

Fresh keratinocytes and melanocytes are recruited from progenitor

cells, also called " stem cells, " residing at the bottom of the

follicle. For unknown reasons, keratinocyte stem cells have a much

greater longevity than the melanocyte stem cells, says Fisher,

professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. " It's the gradual

depletion of [melanocyte] stem cells that leads to the loss of

pigment, " he says.

Does stress accelerate this demise of the melanocyte population? " It

is not so simple, " Fisher says, noting that the process of graying is

a multivariable equation. Stress hormones may impact the survival

and / or activity of melanocytes, but no clear link has been found

between stress and gray hair.

Suspicions—and hypotheses—abound, however. " Graying could be a result

of chronic free radical damage, " says Ralf Paus, professor of

dermatology at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Lübeck,

Germany. Stress hormones produced either systemically or locally (by

cells in the follicle) could produce inflammation that drives the

production of free radicals—unstable molecules that damage cells—

and " it is possible that these free radicals could influence melanin

production or induce bleaching of melanin, " Paus says.

" There is evidence that local expression of stress hormones mediate

the signals instructing melanocytes to deliver melanin to

keratinocytes, " notes Lin, a dermatologist who conducts

molecular biology research at the Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center

in Boston. " Conceivably, if that signal is disrupted, melanin will

not deliver pigment to your hair. "

And general practice physicians have observed accelerated graying

among patients under stress, says Tyler Cymet, head of family

medicine at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, who conducted a small

retrospective study on hair graying among patients at Sinai. " We've

seen that people who are stressed two to three years report that they

turn gray sooner, " he says.

Cymet suspects that going gray is " genetically outlined, but stress

and lifestyle give you variation of plus or minus five to 10 years. "

Blonds often appear to go gray later in life because white strands

easily hide in a sea of light hair when in fact those who are likely

to have the darkest hair (people of African and Asian ancestry) seem

to retain their color longer.

In short, scientists are beginning to gather clues that stress can

hasten the graying process, but there is no scientific evidence

demonstrating a cause-and-effect relationship.

So what happened to Marie Antoinette? There are at least three

possible explanations: She may have suffered from sudden onset of the

rare autoimmune disease alopecia areata, which attacks pigmented

hairs, causing them to fall out, leaving the white (nonpigmented)

strands behind. Or the stress of the situation could have generated a

swarm of free radicals in her hair follicles, which traveled along

the hair shafts, destroying pigment and creating a bleaching effect.

Or maybe she just stopped wearing her wigs—revealing she had gray

hair all along.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-stress-causes-gray-hair

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Black Tea Soothes Stress, UCL Study

07 Oct 2006

Daily cups of tea can help you recover more quickly from the stresses

of everyday life, according to a new study by UCL (University College

London) researchers. New scientific evidence shows that black tea has

an effect on stress hormone levels in the body.

The study, published in the journal Psychopharmacology, found that

people who drank tea were able to de-stress more quickly than those

who drank a fake tea substitute. Furthermore, the study participants -

who drank a black tea concoction four times a day for six weeks -

were found to have lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol in

their blood after a stressful event, compared with a control group

who drank the fake or placebo tea for the same period of time.

In the study, 75 young male regular tea drinkers were split into two

groups and monitored for six weeks. They all gave up their normal

tea, coffee and caffeinated beverages, then one group was given a

fruit-flavoured caffeinated tea mixture made up of the constituents

of an average cup of black tea. The other group - the control group -

was given a caffeinated placebo identical in taste, but devoid of the

active tea ingredients. All drinks were tea-coloured, but were

designed to mask some of the normal sensory cues associated with tea

drinking (such as smell, taste and familiarity of the brew), to

eliminate confounding factors such as the 'comforting' effect of

drinking a cup of tea.

Both groups were subjected to challenging tasks, while their

cortisol, blood pressure, blood platelet and self-rated levels of

stress were measured. In one task, volunteers were exposed to one of

three stressful situations (threat of unemployment, a shop lifting

accusation or an incident in a nursing home), where they had to

prepare a verbal response and argue their case in front of a camera.

The tasks triggered substantial increases in blood pressure, heart

rate and subjective stress ratings in both of the groups. In other

words, similar stress levels were induced in both groups. However, 50

minutes after the task, cortisol levels had dropped by an average of

47 per cent in the tea drinking group compared with 27 per cent in

the fake tea group.

UCL researchers also found that blood platelet activation - linked to

blood clotting and the risk of heart attacks - was lower in the tea

drinkers, and that this group reported a greater degree of relaxation

in the recovery period after the task.

Professor Steptoe, UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public

Health, says: " Drinking tea has traditionally been associated with

stress relief, and many people believe that drinking tea helps them

relax after facing the stresses of everyday life. However, scientific

evidence for the relaxing properties of tea is quite limited. This is

one of the first studies to assess tea in a double-blind placebo

controlled design - that is, neither we nor the participants knew

whether they were drinking real or fake tea. This means that any

differences were due to the biological ingredients of tea, and not to

the relaxing situations in which people might drink tea, whether they

were familiar with the taste and liked it, and so on.

" We do not know what ingredients of tea were responsible for these

effects on stress recovery and relaxation. Tea is chemically very

complex, with many different ingredients. Ingredients such as

catechins, polyphenols, flavonoids and amino acids have been found to

have effects on neurotransmitters in the brain, but we cannot tell

from this research which ones produced the differences.

" Nevertheless, our study suggests that drinking black tea may speed

up our recovery from the daily stresses in life. Although it does not

appear to reduce the actual levels of stress we experience, tea does

seem to have a greater effect in bringing stress hormone levels back

to normal. This has important health implications, because slow

recovery following acute stress has been associated with a greater

risk of chronic illnesses such as coronary heart disease. "

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Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release.

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'The effects of tea on psychophysiological stress responsivity and

post-stress recovery: a randomised double-blind trial' is published

online in the journal Psychopharmacology.

The study was partly funded by Unilever and the Biotechnology and

Biological Sciences Research Council.

The study was carried out by Steptoe, Leigh Gibson, Raisa

Vounonvirta, , Mark Hamer, Erusalimsky and Jane

Wardle at University College London, and Jane Rycroft at Unilever.

About UCL

Founded in 1826, UCL was the first English university established

after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to admit students regardless of

race, class, religion or gender, and the first to provide systematic

teaching of law, architecture and medicine. In the government's most

recent Research Assessment Exercise, 59 UCL departments achieved top

ratings of 5* and 5, indicating research quality of international

excellence.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/53353.php

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