How to stop grey hair developing? Scientists may have the answer in everyday food staples
How to stop grey hair developing? Scientists may have the answer in everyday food staples
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It’s good news if you like eating your greens – scientists have found an antioxidant present in many vegetables that may stop grey hairs developing, according to reports. Professor Masashi Kato, lead author of the study, said: “This finding suggests that luteolin may have a unique medicinal effect that prevents greying.”. But, unfortunately, there is no proof that it is also a preventative for baldness.
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“Interestingly, luteolin had limited effects on hair cycles, indicating that its primary impact is on pigmentation rather than hair growth or shedding,” the professor added. “This targeted action makes luteolin a particularly intriguing candidate for addressing age-related hair greying.”. Here is the breakdown. Greying is experienced by almost all of us and at different ages but will be present in significant amounts by the age of 50 in half the population. Studies have shown it often develops sooner in Caucasias than in Asian or Black people.
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Nagoya University compared luteolin to other antioxidants, hesperetin and diosmetin, by giving them to different groups of mice. The mice were already all set to go grey much like humans due to breeding but those that were exposed to luteolin showed the least amount of greying and still looked brown. Professor Kato added: “While we expected that antioxidants may also have anti-greying effects, only luteolin, not hesperetin or diosmetin, demonstrated significant effects.”.
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