An end to salt and pepper hair?
Scientists found people who are going grey develop “massive oxidative stress via” accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicle, which causes hair to bleach itself from the inside out.
Scientists found people who are going grey develop “massive oxidative stress via” accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicle, which causes hair to bleach itself from the inside out.
According to the journal for biological research, FASEB Journal, the team which includes experts from Bradford University’s School of Life Sciences, have discovered the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide can be remedied with another treatment.
They described it as “a topical, UVB-activated compound called PC-KUS (a modified pseudocatalase)”, the report said.
The treatment, according to AAP, can also be used for people with the skin condition vitiligo, which causes a loss of pigmentation.
Study author, Professor Karin Schallreuter said: “To date, it is beyond any doubt that the sudden loss of the inherited skin and localised hair colour can affect those individuals in many fundamental ways.
“The improvement of quality of life after total and even partial successful re-pigmentation has been documented.”
Professor Schallreuter, a specialist in vitiligo, made the discovery after studying an international group of 2,411 patients.
