It has been said that stress can make you go gray, or cause you to lose your hair. Is that possible? Everyone has little amount of stress. That doesn’t affect hair. But DNA damage can cause the grey hair.

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Hair has been credited with being a man’s strength, a woman’s allure, and the savior of modesty. But even if you’re not Samson, Rapunzel, or Lady Godiva, the mythology of hair also has applications for those of us living in the stressful reality of modern life.

A 2009 study in the journal Cell found that unavoidable damage to the DNA in cells that produce the pigment responsible for hair color is most likely the culprit that causes a hair to turn white. But can stress accelerate the aging process on a cellular level and, as a result, cause you to go gray before your time? Right now, the answer is debatable.

Short-term, everyday stress is not going to affect your body in such a way that your hair falls out. It takes something larger to do that; something that causes one to lose sleep, or changes one’s appetite and raises the level of stress hormones.

Reference: http://www.webmd.com/healthy-beauty/hair-health-11/hair-stress-effect?src=RSS_PUBLIC