How To Naturally Reverse Premature Graying of Hair
Summary
TLDRThis video discusses two key factors to prevent premature graying of hair: copper deficiency and the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide due to aging. It suggests reducing stress and consuming copper-rich foods like seafood, mushrooms, and grass-fed beef liver to boost the enzyme tyrosinase, responsible for hair pigmentation. Additionally, increasing catalase through foods like cruciferous vegetables and grass-fed liver can slow hydrogen peroxide's bleaching effect. The video also touches on the benefits of a higher fat diet for catalase production and overall hair health.
Takeaways
- 🧓 Premature graying of hair can be prevented by addressing key factors beyond genetics, including stress and diet.
- 🧬 Genetics and epigenetics both play roles in graying, with epigenetics allowing for interventions that can delay the process.
- 🧪 Copper is essential for maintaining hair pigment, and deficiency in copper can lead to premature graying.
- 🌿 High levels of cortisol from stress can deplete copper, leading to a lack of the enzyme tyrosinase needed for melanin production.
- 🍄 Foods rich in copper, such as seafood, mushrooms, and organic grass-fed beef liver, can help maintain hair color.
- 🧖♂️ Reducing stress through exercise and lifestyle changes is crucial for preventing premature graying.
- 🧴 Hydrogen peroxide buildup in hair shafts contributes to graying; the enzyme catalase breaks it down.
- 🥦 Foods high in catalase, like grass-fed beef liver, cruciferous vegetables, and microgreens, can reduce hydrogen peroxide buildup.
- 🍽️ Incorporating a nutrient-dense ketogenic diet can support higher catalase levels and overall hair health.
- 🧫 Maintaining a healthy immune system and avoiding stressors like smoking, alcohol, junk foods, and refined carbs are vital for hair health.
Q & A
What is the primary goal of the video?
-The primary goal of the video is to show viewers how to prevent the premature graying of hair.
What role does genetics play in the graying of hair?
-Genetics play a part in the propensity to get gray hair, but epigenetics, which are lifestyle factors, also significantly influence the onset of gray hair.
Why is copper important for hair coloration?
-Copper is a trace mineral that is essential for the pigment in hair and the enzymes that allow that pigment to occur, helping to maintain natural hair color.
How does stress contribute to premature graying of hair?
-High levels of stress can lead to increased cortisol, which uses up copper enzymes. This can result in a deficiency of copper, affecting the enzyme tyrosinase that is needed for melanin production and leading to premature graying.
What is the recommended approach to increase copper intake?
-The recommended approach is to consume more high-copper foods, such as seafood, mushrooms, and organic grass-fed beef liver. It's advised not to take a standalone copper supplement without zinc, maintaining a 1 to 10 ratio of copper to zinc.
What is the role of the enzyme catalase in relation to hair graying?
-Catalase is an enzyme that naturally breaks down hydrogen peroxide, which can cause a bleaching effect on hair. Having enough catalase can slow down this effect and help maintain hair color.
What foods are high in catalase?
-Foods high in catalase include grass-fed beef liver, cruciferous vegetables, and sprouts or microgreens.
How can a higher fat diet potentially impact catalase levels?
-A higher fat diet, such as the ketogenic diet, may help increase catalase levels, which can be beneficial in slowing down the aging process and maintaining hair color.
What is the connection between catalase and lifespan according to the research study mentioned in the script?
-The research study on mice found that stimulating the gene for catalase led to a significant increase in lifespan, possibly due to its antioxidant properties and its role in protecting mitochondria from free radical damage.
What are some lifestyle changes suggested in the video to prevent premature graying of hair?
-The video suggests reducing stress, maintaining a healthy diet with high-copper and catalase-rich foods, avoiding smoking and alcohol, and staying away from junk foods, sugars, and refined carbohydrates.
What is the significance of hydrogen peroxide in the aging process of hair?
-Hydrogen peroxide accumulates in the hair shaft as one ages, causing a bleaching effect that can lead to hair losing its natural color.
Outlines
💆♂️ Preventing Premature Graying: The Role of Copper and Stress
This paragraph discusses the importance of copper as a trace mineral for maintaining hair color and the impact of stress on copper levels. Genetics can predispose individuals to gray hair, but epigenetic factors such as copper deficiency can accelerate the process. Copper is essential for the enzyme tyrosinase, which produces melanin for hair coloration. Stress increases cortisol levels, which in turn depletes copper, leading to premature graying. The speaker suggests reducing stress and consuming copper-rich foods like seafood, mushrooms, and grass-fed beef liver, while also cautioning against standalone copper supplements without zinc. A balanced diet with sufficient trace minerals is recommended to support healthy hair pigmentation.
🥗 Boosting Catalase Intake for Hair Health and Aging
The second paragraph focuses on the role of catalase in slowing down the aging process and its effect on hair health. As people age, hydrogen peroxide accumulates in hair shafts, causing a bleaching effect and leading to gray hair. Catalase is an enzyme that breaks down hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen, thus slowing this aging effect. The speaker recommends increasing catalase intake through foods such as grass-fed beef liver, cruciferous vegetables, and sprouts or microgreens. Additionally, a higher fat diet, like the ketogenic diet, is suggested to increase catalase levels. The paragraph also touches on the broader health benefits of catalase, including its antioxidant properties and potential to extend lifespan by protecting mitochondria from free radical damage.
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Keywords
💡Premature graying
💡Epigenetics
💡Copper
💡Cortisol
💡Tyrosinase
💡Hydrogen peroxide
💡Catalase
💡Stress reduction
💡Nutrient-dense foods
💡Ketogenic diet
💡Mitochondria
Highlights
The video aims to prevent premature graying of hair, which is not solely due to genetics but also epigenetics.
Copper is a trace mineral essential for hair pigmentation and can be affected by stress due to cortisol's demand for copper enzymes.
Stress can lead to premature graying as it depletes copper levels needed for the enzyme tyrosinase to produce melanin.
Recommendation to increase copper intake through diet rather than standalone copper supplements.
The importance of zinc alongside copper, with a suggested 1:10 ratio for supplementation.
Aging leads to an accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in hair shafts, causing a bleaching effect and graying.
Catalase is an enzyme that breaks down hydrogen peroxide and can slow down the aging process of hair.
Catalase's role in the immune system, using hydrogen peroxide as a defense against pathogens.
The recommendation to consume foods high in catalase rather than taking supplements.
Seafoods, especially oysters, are high in copper and beneficial for preventing premature graying.
Mushrooms contain copper-based enzyme tyrosinase, aiding in hair color maintenance.
Organic grass-fed beef liver and spirulina are alternative sources of copper for vegans.
Grass-fed beef liver, vegetables, and sprouts are rich in catalase, helping to combat hydrogen peroxide buildup.
The importance of managing stress through exercise and maintaining a stress-free attitude.
Avoiding unhealthy habits like smoking, alcohol, and junk food to prevent additional stress on the body.
A higher fat diet, such as the ketogenic diet, can help increase catalase levels.
Research findings that link increased catalase activity with a significant increase in lifespan.
Catalase's role as an antioxidant protecting mitochondria from hydrogen peroxide-induced free radical damage.
Transcripts
today let's talk about two really
important things to prevent premature
graying of your hair now if you look at
my hair at the top okay
all this is natural of course you can
see
let's see on this side a little gray
right here a little gray right here
there is a factor of age and eventually
everyone will have gray hair but the
whole goal of this video is to show you
how to prevent the prematuring of this
graying of your hair so many people are
getting gray hair just way too early
it's not all genetics
genetics do play a part but there's also
something called epigenetics which are
things that you can do which are above
your genes so even though you might have
genes that give you a propensity to get
gray hair there's a lot of things that
you can do about it but there's two
really important things you need to know
one is the actual pigment in the hair
that gives you the coloring and the
enzymes to allow that pigment to occur
are dependent on a trace mineral called
copper if you are deficient in Copper
you might have a tendency to get gray
hair prematurely but why are people
deficient in Copper
yes it could be coming from your diet
because you're not consuming High copper
foods which I will talk about shortly
but there's another thing that you need
to know high levels of cortisol as in
stress
complete copper because cortisol uses a
lot of copper enzymes
so in other words more stress equals
more demand for copper equals more loss
of copper and when you run out of copper
and you don't have enough enzyme that
enzyme is called tyrosinase to make this
melanin to keep your natural color in
your hair things start to go gray so how
does this apply to you
well stress you've probably even
experienced The more stress that you
have the more gray hairs you might find
in your head so of course the solution
is to
do whatever you can to reduce stress but
in the meantime as you're doing that
there's other things you can do to
increase copper like eat more Foods
higher in Copper I don't necessarily
recommend taking a copper supplement by
itself I recommend that you try to get
it from the foods however you could take
a copper supplement but you have to make
sure that it also has other trace
minerals especially zinc in there
because zinc and copper work together
you never want to just take like a
standalone Trace mineral with copper and
the ratios need to be correct too you
usually need like a 1 to 10 ratio one
copper to 10 zinc so in other words you
don't want to take a lot of copper you
just want to take sufficient amounts now
before we get into the foods for that
let me just explain this other thing
that's equally as important and that is
basically age the aging process what
happens when you age you get this
accumulation of hydrogen peroxide that
builds up in the hair shaft okay and
hydrogen peroxide causes like a
bleaching effect of your hair so the
other question is okay how do you slow
down the aging process well you'd want
to slow down the accumulation of
hydrogen peroxide to it at the very
least keep the color in your hair
there is an enzyme that naturally breaks
down hydrogen peroxide very quickly
actually it's called catalase but before
you go out and buy another supplement
with catalase I don't recommend that I
recommend eating foods high in catalase
which I'll explain in a minute but let
me just first explain a little bit more
about catalytics because it's very
interesting catalase breaks hydrogen
peroxide down into water in oxygen like
one molecule of catalase
can break down a million molecules of
hydrogen peroxide in less than a second
so by having enough catalase in your
body you can slow down this hydrogen
peroxide phenomena that occurs with
aging and as one side note your immune
system okay uses hydrogen peroxide like
the white blood cells use hydrogen
peroxide as a weapon against pathogens
so if you have this low-grade infection
or you know a lot of times people have
chronic fatigue syndrome they have this
like Epstein-Barr virus or some type of
herpes virus that kind of keeps coming
out of remission in remission that type
of thing that can be releasing a lot of
hydrogen peroxide so having a healthy
immune system is really important so
number one we need to lower our stress
as well as increase the copper to build
the enzyme to keep the pigment in your
hair okay and then over here we need to
increase catalytes to keep this hydrogen
peroxide as low as possible so what are
the foods that are highest in copper
all of the Seafoods shellfish especially
oysters are very important and secondly
mushrooms eating more mushrooms have
that copper-based enzyme tyrosinics and
by the way you can also get copper in
organic grass-fed beef liver and if
you're vegan you can also get it from
spirulina so that's those Foods now what
about foods that can increase head lace
you can get catalase from grass-fed beef
liver vegetables especially cruciferous
vegetables and Sprouts or micro greens
are loaded with catalase so when you
have your salad each day make sure you
add some microgreens or some Sprouts
that way you can get a little bit more
catalase and of course if you're having
a salad you know maybe you do arugula as
your base because that's a cruciferous
and then you can also saute but not
overcook other cruciferous vegetables
and of course on top of all that you
want to work on your stress you want to
do things exercise to release stress you
want to also maintain a stress-free
attitude about life and that could too
serious and stuck in stress you want to
avoid smoking alcohol junk Foods sugars
refined carbs and one more point about
catalase
I found one study that showed that you
don't want to go low-fat a higher fat
diet can help increase catalase as in
the ketogenic diet so we keep coming
back to this healthy version of the
ketogenic diet that I keep recommending
where you're doing nutrient dense foods
where you're doing cruciferous
vegetables where you're doing grass-fed
meats and even organ meats and if you
don't like organ meats you can always
get those in the supplement and one last
a real interesting point about catalase
I found another research study on mice
okay so if you have any pet mice this
could apply that found when they
stimulated the the gene for catalase
they there was a significant increase in
lifespan which is interesting which
would make sense because catalase works
on your mitochondria and it's an
antioxidant and too much hydrogen
peroxide can create a lot of free
radical damage and destroy the
mitochondria so now that we covered the
premature grain of the hair let's talk
about the hair in general is there other
things that can make your hair healthier
and the answer is yes in this video you
can find out
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