A team of researchers from NYU spent two years plucking away mice hair to watch what happened when it grew back. They noticed a stem cell malfunction that may explain your silver strands.
Answering the top question, I'm 54, and I have around 3 gray hairs. I haven't kept track, but I've had one of them for a while. So guessing maybe one new gray hair per year since around 51 or 52.
I hate all of you. I was 19 when I first started noticing a couple grey hairs. I counted over a dozen by the time I was 21. Now 20 years later, I’m about 50% black/50% white hair. My mom’s side of the family goes grey really young; some cousins found a grey hair at like 14.
Answering the top question, I'm 54, and I have around 3 gray hairs. I haven't kept track, but I've had one of them for a while. So guessing maybe one new gray hair per year since around 51 or 52.
Interesting article. The quote below suggests there is a wide range of greying patterns as expected, but seems skewed towards the older side, i.e., there’s probably many more folks below 45 with some grey than there are people over 65 with no grey. I’m also finding it difficult to believe that one in four people between 45 and 64 have no grey as the quote seems to imply.
“Overall, 74% of people between the ages of 45 and 65 years of age have at least a few silver strands, according to research from the National Institutes of Health.”
Is it normal to be in your 20's and to have 10-20 stands of grey hair? I'm a Caucasian male btw, if that matters.
Yeah, obviously it’s normal. I think I first noticed gray hairs at 27. Four years later, the progression has been much slower than I expected. I have a few more every year, but nobody in their right mind would describe my hair as anything other than dark brown.
I honestly wish I was grayer already. Personally I like the look, and they balance out other aspects of my appearance to make me look my age.
I'm 65, fair-skinned blue-eyed female of mostly northern European ancestry, and I have no gray hairs that I'm aware of. My face has enough wrinkles to look 65 but my hair looks 35. Both of my parents went gray relatively late in life, but both had some gray by age 60.