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Posted on Jul 30th 2007 10:00AM by Bethany SandersFiled Under: Diet & Weight Loss
We wash it, condition it, style it, sometimes hide it under a hat. We twirl it, lose it, color it, and cut it in all manners of styles and shapes. It's our hair and sometimes it can make or break our day, but did you know it can also tell us a lot about the state of our health?
This article has a lot of interesting facts about hair and what hair health can say about a person. In fact, research about how hair grays has led to some interesting findings about melanoma. When a hair grays, it's because stem cells in the hair follicle die off and cells that color hair get confused and put the pigment in the wrong places. In melanoma, the opposite takes place and these same cells grow out of control. Researchers are looking into ways to create drugs that mimic the dying off that happens with graying hair in hopes that it may "turn off" quickly growing cancer cells.
Read more interesting facts about that hair that lives on the top of your head here.
This article has a lot of interesting facts about hair and what hair health can say about a person. In fact, research about how hair grays has led to some interesting findings about melanoma. When a hair grays, it's because stem cells in the hair follicle die off and cells that color hair get confused and put the pigment in the wrong places. In melanoma, the opposite takes place and these same cells grow out of control. Researchers are looking into ways to create drugs that mimic the dying off that happens with graying hair in hopes that it may "turn off" quickly growing cancer cells.
Read more interesting facts about that hair that lives on the top of your head here.
