Reverse Gray Hair With A Fruit and Vegetable Diet

Can you reverse gray hair with a fruit and vegetable diet? I think you can! I did!

What Causes Gray Hair

Well let's start with what causes gray hair.

So each hair follicle has pigment cells that produce melanin, which is a chemical that produces color.

Gradually these pigment cells die off, leaving a strand of hair that is silver, white or gray.

So that is the description of why hair turns gray, but what causes it? Why do these pigment cells die off?

The most obvious answer is that aging causes gray hair, but if that is true then it would follow that you would have to be old in order to have gray hair, and this is not always the case!

I remember hairdressers being surprised to find gray hairs amongst my dark hair from as young as fourteen. As the years passed I found more and more.

Other answers point to genetics, and others to lifestyle factors, for instance smokers go gray faster than non smokers.

I love it when the cause of something undesirable is likely to be lifestyle factors as rather than feeling like I am being blamed, I feel totally empowered. This means that maybe there is something I can do about it.

Now, there does seem to be quite a few people with gray hair who adopt or have adopted a great diet for many years, who nevertheless still have lots of gray hair, so perhaps it is a little hit and miss. However, I am thrilled to report that MY gray hair situation (which was first noticed at age fourteen as mentioned above) is definitely in REVERSE!

Gray Hair Reversal

Several years ago, when I was around 27 or so, my gray hair became noticeable to the point that I began to dye my hair regularly, every six weeks in order to cover up gray hairs.

I found it quite distressing at the time because I was using all these harsh hair dyes and doing considerable damage to my hair, but I didn't know what else there was to do.

Henna For Gray Hair

When I started eating a predominantly raw fruit and vegetable diet in 2008 I also quickly decided that chemical hair dyes would have to go. They just didn't seem to fit in with my new lifestyle.

That was when I discovered Natural Henna Color which I have been using ever since. Henna is fabulous for gray hair. It softens and beautifies like nothing else, it is like giving yourself the most awesome hair treatment every time you use it.

You have to make sure you are using real henna though and not a henna compound such as you are likely to find in a health store. You need to find a place that sells the pure henna powder in body art quality and use this, as henna compound products are totally useless.

The Raw Fruit and Vegetable Diet To Reverse Gray Hair!

I was thrilled to hear stories of others who had managed to reverse gray hair with raw food and hoped that it might happen to me too. Michael Arnstein talks about how he noticed a gray hair reversal in a video about the benefits he has experienced on a raw fruit and vegetable diet (click the link for Michael's story including this video).

Over the last few months I have gradually noticed that I needed to color my hair less and less often. Then suddenly I realized that it had been two months since I had last dyed my hair with henna, and I was seriously struggling to find any gray in my hair!!

Usually after a month or so I would be able to see quite a bit of gray regrowth. Well, not anymore! If I looked hard I could find a strand or two but only if I looked hard!

Now I am coloring my hair with henna just because I have fallen in love with the process and the color and the conditioning treatment that it provides. I am no longer doing this because I 'need' to cover gray hair!

This is marvelous and miraculous.

Reverse Gray Hair

If our bodies are short of quality nutrition, then our nails and our hair are the last places our bodies are going to be concerned with.

However, when you are receiving an abundance of high quality nutrition on a raw fruit and vegetable diet then there is plenty left over for your body to use to fix all sorts of neglected areas, and gray hair might just be one of them.

So I am looking forward to the continuing reversal of my gray hairs over the next few years, rather than anticipating the accumulation of more.

The fact that a low fat raw fruit and vegetable diet can reverse gray hair or at least slow down the process dramatically is just another miracle and makes me so excited to continue on this path.

Wouldn't you like to have hair that looks like this?

This is how my hair looks these days since using the MIRACLE SHAMPOO RECIPE found in my Homemade Shampoo Recipes Ebook.

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