Scientists discovered why hair goes gray

How and where can I get some CATALASE supplements?

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/02/gray-hair.html

Bottle-blondes may be a fan, but hydrogen peroxide, which is produced naturally in the human body, interferes with melanin, the pigment that colors our hair and skin.

The body also produces the enzyme catalase, which breaks down hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen. Or at least it does for a while. As we age, catalase production tails off, leaving nothing to transform the hydrogen peroxide into chemicals the body can release.

So, as hydrogen peroxide builds up, we go gray, concluded researchers at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom, who last week published the results of a study in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology’s online journal.

This is very important news imo. I read it some weeks ago.

According to this, graying is not due to a lack of melanocytes!!
Here is the link I read:

Why Hair Goes Gray
Study Blames a Chain Reaction That Makes Hair Bleach Itself From the Inside Out
By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Louise Chang, MDFeb. 25, 2009 – Scientists may have figured out why hair turns gray, and their finding may open the door to new anti-graying strategies.

New research shows that hair turns gray as a result of a chemical chain reaction that causes hair to bleach itself from the inside out.

The process starts when there is a dip in levels of an enzyme called catalase. That catalase shortfall means that the hydrogen peroxide that naturally occurs in hair can’t be broken down. So hydrogen peroxide builds up in the hair, and because other enzymes that would repair hydrogen peroxide’s damage are also in short supply, the hair goes gray.

Putting the brakes on that chemical chain reaction “could have great implications in the hair graying scenario in humans,” write the researchers, who included Karin Schallreuter, a professor clinical and experimental dermatology at England’s University of Bradford.

The study appears online in The FASEB Journal; the FASEB is the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

http://cccmkc.edu.hk/~kei-kph/Enzyme/catalase.htm

I can do apples and celery. I dont think I could take pigs liver though. Ewww.

I still think Folica’s wounding/regrowth scenario is at least half likely to reverse graying along with the MPB improvements.

This lab seems to have the inside track on a cure for grey hair - it is based on the same finding (hydrogen peroxide):

http://sev.prnewswire.com/medical-pharmaceuticals/20090317/DC8452617032009-1.html

But, still years away from the market.