{"id":4107,"date":"2023-06-13T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2023-06-13T18:31:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:31:01","slug":"why-does-hair-turn-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=4107","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Hair Turn Gray?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hair grays because pigment-producing cells get stuck within the hair follicle, research suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-127-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4108\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-127-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-127-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-127-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-127-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-127-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-127-390x219.png 390w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-127.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gray hair is an inevitable part of growing older. The chances of hair graying increase 10% to 20% every decade after age 30, the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/everyday-mysteries\/biology-and-human-anatomy\/item\/why-does-hair-turn-gray\/\" target=\"_blank\">Library of Congress notes<\/a>. By age 61 to 65, 91% of people will display some level of hair graying, according to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uab.edu\/cas\/biology\/people\/faculty\/melissa-l-harris\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Harris<\/a>, an associate professor of biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/ageing\/why-does-hair-turn-gray\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/ageing\/why-does-hair-turn-gray<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hair grays because pigment-producing cells get stuck within the hair follicle, research suggests. Gray hair is an inevitable part of growing older. The chances of hair graying increase 10% to 20% every decade after age 30, the\u00a0Library of Congress notes. By age 61 to 65, 91% of people will display some level of hair graying, according to\u00a0Melissa Harris, an associate professor of biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Read more: https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/ageing\/why-does-hair-turn-gray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}