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    7 days ago

    curly grey hair is vitamin deficency. he will recover once he eats right.

    Other factors could also contribute to the greying of hair, including nutrient deficiencies, or medical conditions.

    yes.

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      The sudden greying of the hair in children could be due to high levels of stress, which can lead to the production of free radicals that cause damage to stem cells that produce pigment.

      A quick google search also shows that you are wrong about stress not being able to cause gray hair and the article is accurate. Though it disappears when the stress is gone

      https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/its-true-stress-does-turn-hair-gray-and-its-reversible

      Though the legend is inaccurate—hair that has already grown out of the follicle does not change color—a new study(link is external and opens in a new window) from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons is the first to offer quantitative evidence linking psychological stress to graying hair in people.

      And while it may seem intuitive that stress can accelerate graying, the researchers were surprised to discover that hair color can be restored when stress is eliminated, a finding that contrasts with a recent study in mice that suggested that stressed-induced gray hairs are permanent.

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        5 days ago

        i totally agree with you. but the chance that he is also malnourished anyway is pretty great, given the circumstances. Kids are pretty harcore. he is worrying about his hair, not about the bombs.

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      7 days ago

      ^ this is precisely it

      This is horseshit journalism and not helpful

      Spreading disinformation doesn’t help these poor kids, it’s simply designed to make you angry

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        VERY difficult to say. first, you need protein and fat to build various substances anyway, so if oyu short on that, but have vitamins and mierals, it still wont work.

        then you could have all the food you need, but be out of vitamins or minerals, then it wont work either.

        Medication interaction can be a huge problem.

        many vitamins have to do with keratine forming; keratine is like, nails and hair and hard stuff.

        you have your hair follicle, lets say hair wise, everything is nice and dandy, but you have anemia, (way less red blood cells)

        so oxygen does not get to your hair cell, see?

        the problem is, those vitamins do not only one thing, but lots of things - and those things all interact with each other.

        so you could be very well be out of several vitamins, that have nothig to to with hair, but this will still impede hair building.

        a sure sign is multiple problems apart from the hair problem. like, broken ragged nails, fatty skin, pimples, oily hairy, swollen face, slow wound healing, fair of brushing teeth, candida on tongue. bad eyesight, and so much more.

        I started with copper, than vitamin d, then vitamin c, then calcium, then magenisum. the magnesium did the trick a bit better.

        once you have an imbalance, it goes bad from there, because of the interaction. for example, if you take magnesium with out calcium, you will deplete your teeth and bones from calcium. (if i remember correctly)

        with out copper, iron cant be absorbed.

        and so on.

        so I guess one straightforward way would be bloodwork.