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Suddenly greying and self bleaching hair

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I have been going grey in streaks and now 50% all over with wierd bleached clumps as well - anyone had same and got any medical advice

sorry it seems to be linked to low catylase which breaks down hydrogen peroxide at the cellular level . Hydrogen peroxide bleaches hair and skin if not broken down - byut why suddenly low catylase- is it a PTSD thing to go suddenly grey or in my case blond silver grey from mousy brown
 
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It isn't a PTSD thing, but it can be a stress thing. It could mean you have low copper levels or B12as well.


"...chronic stress and frequent activation of the "fight or flight" stress response leads to DNA damage that may promote not only Dead Link Removed, cancer, neuropsychiatric conditions and miscarriages but also affect genes that control hair pigment." ~Nobel Prize winner Dr. Robert Lefkowitz
 
vitaminstuff and catalase ( can't post links yet but this should get you there)

so here is the thing low catalase leads to grey hair but also heart disease. Inflammation causes heart disease and Inflammation causes TNF-IL and Ib to decrease catalase. Hydrogen peroxide which catalase breaks down causes damage to DNA. PTSD sufferers often have inflamation and heart disaease and shortened telomeres.- so here I am with Plantar fascia which is fasciosis because you actually have dead tissue in your foot ( which they can confirm when you are dead) and gangrene of the mouth used to be a symptom of catalase dificiency disease before we got better at oral hygiene and now suddenly I have bleach blonde grey hair. I am wondering whether I can't make catalase or whether i am deficient in the manganese zinc copper and selenium needed to make them( easy fix and not a PTSD thing probably)- for me its a part of my PTSD thing because I catastrophise about my system health . The good news in all this is that if you have hydrogen peroxide it means your dangerous free radicals are being broken down and maybe cancer is less likely then heart disease so if your into risk management then maybe addressing catalase issues through diet or other might also reduce that- Maybe too much science in the morning? I was asking if other people have suddenly greying hair and now plantar fascia because I wonder in all the Biology stuff about PTSD they get to the big ticket items like inflammation and heart disease without exploring the pathways that get you there - catalase seems like it could be a culprit in my particularly biology and just recently they have come out with level of grey hair in men correlates with rates of heart disease.
 
no one with suddenly greying hair - my dad was quite grey at 60 mymum at 87 is almost all grey but was 50-50 until quite recently. Mine is the pattern of greying streaks, and actually bleache blonde clumps of hair and people started doing double takes this last two weeks and asking if I had been bleaching my hair - grey hair does not worry me at all - I rock it - but my plantar fasciosis pain came back as well and the link between inflammation, catalase greying hair and necrosis was what made me think - are they connected - is it just freaky or do other people have similar experiences.
 
Association of Hormonal Axes Changes with Oxidative Stress in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder for Iraqi Terror Attack Victims | كلية الطب This is a bit hard to read because of the no paragraphs - but it is about hormonal changes and oxidative stress and PTSD - maybe greying hair is a PTSD thing but no-one cares if we lose ten years - including many times ourselves because we are so over our symptomology. I used spritz to be able to read the link word by word instead of the chunk of text
 
It's a family joke that if I stress I grow grey hair. A bout of extraordinary stress and my eyebrows are the first place I notice the "new" grey. Thanks for the link to the article eloc. (yeah that block page is too much for me to read this morning, but I bookmarked it)
 
I found a better link to the same research with actual paragraphs

http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=81767

and because its easier to read I noticed this "
Women with PTSD also shown increased necrosis factor
-κB(NF-κB) pathway activity compared to controls and was positively correlated with PTSD
severity."

So there you go maybe the plantar fasciosis (which is now known to be necrosis- with inflammation to carry the dead tissue away) is linked to the PTSD
 
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