Hair Color Returning page

[Primal Pamme]

I am 48 and have been grey since my late 30s, really I have been turning grey since I was in my 20s. When I became a Grandma 5 years ago, I stopped coloring my hair and I am lucky to have pretty grey hair. I have been Paleo/Primal for about 10 months. In that time, I have also stopped using shampoo, and I seldom use any other hair product or even soap. I spend less than five minutes on my very short hair a day, if that. And, I don't smoke or hang out with people who smoke.

One day last October, a co-worker frowned at my head and asked me if I was coloring my hair again. She said it looked blond. I didn't believe her until I really looked at my hair in the mirror and it did look more blond. My hair had lots of different colors, as happens when a blond turns grey, so you can imagine my surprise when I realized the primary color was once again blond. It wasn't a real strong blond, more like the white blond I was when I was very young. As I was telling my husband about it, and he was agreeing that it was blond again, I looked at his mostly grey beard and realized it was getting darker. My stylist noticed the return of color and had a difficult time believing it was natural.

I don't have any allusions of my hair ever being as blond as it was before I started coloring it, I am just amazed that any color has returned.

Has anyone else experienced this or heard of it?

[YogaBare]

I actually read the same thing on another thread here - someone said they used to have some grey hairs and they had disappeared. Go you!

[sarahelyse]

OMG, I hope this happens to me!! I was 23 when I saw my first grey! Here's hoping it goes away!!

[Derpamix]

Copper restores hair color. Retention of copper is important. Eat lots of chocolate, oysters, and a low iron diet and consider cooking with a copper pan instead of an iron one(iron blocks copper absorption, low copper makes iron easily stored)

[Derpamix]

in that vein ^ copper peptides are a quick fix to discolored hair

[Shelli]

Same here. Same age as you, went gray same time too. My gray is more like "absence of color" than anything. I quit coloring when we moved to Australia because the sun would fade all that expense right out real quick. In the last year, I've become very light blonde mixed with the gray. It's odd!

[YogaBare]

Copper restores hair color. Retention of copper is important. Eat lots of chocolate, oysters, and a low iron diet and consider cooking with a copper pan instead of an iron one(iron blocks copper absorption, low copper makes iron easily stored)

Interesting. I wonder if a person's ability to store copper determines when they go grey, and if that is genetic? My maternal grandmother still has a lot of dark hair and she's in her early 80's! My mum doesn't have many greys either.

And then some people go grey from stress. My dad literally went white in the space of a few months when his business went under. My sister grew grey hair when she had her first baby. I wonder if it's cos' stress effects copper absorption?

[Derpamix]

Interesting. I wonder if a person's ability to store copper determines when they go grey, and if that is genetic? My maternal grandmother still has a lot of dark hair and she's in her early 80's! My mum doesn't have many greys either.

And then some people go grey from stress. My dad literally went white in the space of a few months when his business went under. My sister grew grey hair when she had her first baby. I wonder if it's cos' stress effects copper absorption?

"I think the chronic loss of copper accounts for the obvious features of aging, such as the loss of elasticity of the skin, hair, and (in Parkinson's disease) substantia nigra, and for the decrease in respiratory capacity."

Copper is poorly absorbed when there is excessive stress. Stress harms thyroid production, and thyroid hormone is crucial for copper absorption.

[belladabin]

yeah, quit coloring when we moved to Australia because the sun would fade all that expense right out real quick,thank you

[MattyH]

Wow - this was an eye opener! I've noticed that my roots are not as obvious, even a couple months after my last coloring - I thought my hair had started growing more slowly and was trying to convince myself that was a sign of health!