FACT! LOOK AT ANY PRESIDENT AFTER HIS FIRST YEAR OR TWO IN OFFICE!

Well I have silver grey hair they used to be dark brown almost black , so is everyone in my Family , now everyone has grey hair ,none of us has what they describe as cause of the problem and looking at very old photo and family portrait up to 300 years everyone had grey hair , excuse me the so called scientist have missed something , genetic .

yres indeed look at Bush He came out smarter and almost wize and educated.........................the rest of it is bourbon and pretzels.

Okay, I really understood all that!

frank - read the article - it specifically states: Stress aside, many experts agree that genetics still play the largest role in determining when you can expect the grays to start creeping in. "When hair turns gray -- and which hairs turn gray -- is genetically programmed," Jerry Shapiro, M.D., professor of dermatology at New York University's Langone Medical Center told AARP's Bulletin Today.

Wow, My 1st strand of grey appeared when I was nine years old. I had no stress n didnt smoke, it was called hereditary at that time. My dad had grey by the age of 18. Im 39 and if I didnt color my hair, I would have the opposite birth mark of Jay Leno. so much for science.

My father had gray hair when he was in his 30's, and I'm totally gray in mid-fifties, my son who is 30 beginning to turn gray, but yet I have a sister who is 68 with a rare immune disease and takes chemo pills 3 times a day, has a full head of black hair. Its weird how genetics work.

I used to have a few strands of gray hair but after years of stress due to our son that includes lack of sleep I have SO much now! Lost most of my eyebrows, lots of eyelashes, & cannot lose weight either since then. Stress has taken years of my life!!!

That's all ridiculous...try adding copper capsules to your diet. If you consistently use them between 3-6 months you will start seeing your grey hair turn your original color starting where the most blood flow occurs on your scalp - near the base of your neck, and then later toward your forehead. Copper supplements will also assist in elasticity of veins and skin.

In the 3rd paragraph, it would be nice if they put it in laymens terms! LOL

I went almost completely gray just after my only brother was killed. Stress and grief can really do a number on you.

The points that the author make are relevant and important. However, she fails to touch on another common thread that turns hair grey quickly that is something that many of us are exposed to daily.
I am 54 and had worked in law offices in my 30's and 40's as a paralegal in LA and Boston. I noticed over time that the attorneys that drank the most coffee also had the whitest hair! This was even true for attorneys in their late 30's. I saw attorneys go through whole pots of coffee singularly in a day with resultant full heads of white hair.
I also noticed for myself, as I transitioned into sales over the past 10 years that the more coffee that i drank, the faster my hair around my temples and sideburns turned salt and pepper.
I also had a friend, 39, who never drank coffee. However, with his work as an outdoor tree landscaper he had to get up earlier and earlier. When he hurt his back he started making full thermos' of coffee that he drank to stay awake in the morning. Within one year his hair went from "jet black" to full "salt and pepper". He had no idea as to why as well, as nothing different was changed in his life save the downing of 3-4 cups of coffee per day.
No one is going to do a study of how caffeine excellerates the changing of hair color to white. Yet I guarantee that this is very, very true. As another element to note; I have two Hispanic male friends, one in his 50's and the other in his 60's who never ever drink coffee and have full heads of black hair. Try contrasting this to an Hispanic male chef that i know who is in his 40 's, loves Starbucks and is already salt and pepper.

I believe research on this subject is wholly incomcomplete. Yet who wants to tell all of the millions of daily Starbuck's users that Clairol is coming into their lives more quickly with ever drink that they take?

Cause loss of sex, need more heavy sex will cure it!!!!!!!!!!

Don't ell my kids, I blamed it on them and I don't want them correcting me.

It's in our GENES! Many people on my Dad's side of the family started going grey at an early age. Both me and my sister started to go grey in our teens. I've been coloring my hair since I was 15! My silver strands came in on both sides of my head in the temple area. Just like my mother's did when she started to go grey in her 40's. So I grew silver hair in the same way she did but at a very young age like my father. It has to be in our genes.

It's rare but you can be as young as 17 and have a salt and pepper mix of hair color. I've seen this in some teens. But largely the gray begins to creep in at middle-age; around age 35. Until science has conclusive answers to the graying phenomena, and when there's authentic treatments available, all of us aging old farts in our 40's+ can merely color the gray the tried and true way. Or we can all go natural with snow on our heads.

I'm so glad I got the good genes in our family. I'm 63 and my hair is still a nice natural brown. My 3 younger sisters have been dying their hair since they were in their 40s when their hair turned gray.

I read somewhere that greying of your hair was due to a shortage of copper.