Getting grey hair early on in life...

Medical Q&A [Moderated]
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Hey,

This is not training related, but I hope it’s ok to post this anyway.

So when I was 22 or 23, I noticed I had one grey hair. When I was 25, I had a couple. Today, I’m 28 and I have about 20-30 completely white hairs scattered around my head. It has really exploded in the last year.

My friends have commented on this, and I feel ashamed going grey this early on. My dad started going grey when he was 35, which seems much more normal.

When I was 22ish, I had horrible diet and didn’t exercise at all. But in the last years I’ve been exercising moderately and been eating a much better diet with a lot of protein and veggies.

I’ve been stressed and depressed for most of my adult life, could this be the reason for this?

Thanks.

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Sorry to hear this is causing distress.

It’s hard to provide a specific reason for this outside of normal age-related changes in most cases, and that age of onset obviously varies between individuals.