• Question: Why do people with red hair tend to 'go grey' faster than other people???

    Asked by Mia to Carolyn, Peter, Richard, Sara, Siana on 12 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Richard Unwin

      Richard Unwin answered on 12 Nov 2015:

      Do they? There are two pigments that make up hair colour. I guess if you’ve red hair you’ve got more of one pigment than the other, and it stops being made sooner?

    • Photo: Sara Falcone

      Sara Falcone answered on 13 Nov 2015:

      I didn’t know they did. That’s interesting.
      I like Richard theory. Maybe the eumelanin (that gives the colors brown-black and all the lighter/darker nuance) is produced for longer than the pheomelanin (that gives the color red and all the different nuances). More searching is needed!!!!!

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