Dr. Oz and Hair Color

[My Friend]

What your hair color says about you.


People who have this hair color more often than not experience baldness, hair loss, and thinning of the hair.



Brunette's. Darker colored hair is normally thicker than blondes and red heads. Brunettes have about 100, 000 strands, blondes have 150,000 strands of hair. If you have darlk colored hair get lots of iron in your diet. Tuna and oatmeal are great options.

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People who have this hair color are 90% more likey to develop Parkinsons.


Red heads. Eat lots of folic acid. Beans or a multivitamin are great options. Red heads are also more sensitive to pain.

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People who have this hair color are at a higher risk for blindess and skin cancer.


Blondes. Eat lots of green. Kale, spinach and snow peas. They give nutrients to the back of the eye. Also, spf 30+ zinc oxide.


HTH

 

[Firstborn2]

Thanks for the info OP, I don't know if I necessarily agree with this information but it is interesting.

 

[FlawedBeauty]

meh, im a redhead and my pain tolerance is way high!!

 

[My Friend]

^^^^ Which part do you disagree with?

 

[JuiceMobsta]

What if you have a mixture of color...like blonde highlights...:scratchch

 

[SND411]

Okay, I'm none of those...

 

[JustSimplyTish]

My grandma was a redhead ....she had Parkinson's ....just say'n cuz Parkinson was mentioned...

I am not sure I believe that either...I know so many people that have wayyyy thicker hair than mine and they are blondes and redheads...But I guess this is based on certain statistics...which I just can't imagine hair color determining your fate for certain diseases and illness...But that is just IMHO

 

[My Friend]

What if you have a mixture of color...like blonde highlights...:scratchch

Eat plenty of kale, spinach and snowpeas. Make sure your getting folic acid and iron in your diet or via a vitamin. If you do all those things your covered Most if not all of these items are listed on this forum anyway.

 

[AfroKink]

Is this specific for people of European descent? (And by extension, those with plenty of Euro blood?)

 

[MizzBrit]

ok um what about the black/dark brown?

 

[My Friend]

My grandma was a redhead ....she had Parkinson's ....just say'n cuz Parkinson was mentioned...

I am not sure I believe that either...I know so many people that have wayyyy thicker hair than mine and they are blondes and redheads...But I guess this is based on certain statistics...which I just can't imagine hair color determining your fate for certain diseases and illness...But that is just IMHO

He stated the strands are thicker for brunettes but blondes have more strands.

Yeah, I'm sure it was based on certain studies and statistics. He mentioned that the gene that mutates and makes your hair red is the same gene for Parkinson. He did mention the medical term for this on the show. If I was a red head I would do mega research on this. If taking Folic Acid now can possibly prevent or delay it, it's worth it.

 

[My Friend]

ok um what about the black/dark brown?

The only thing he mentioned was "Brunettes and darker colored hair".

I wonder if on his site if there is a place to email him a question?

 

[JustSimplyTish]

I think I will stick with healthy living, exercise, a good diet, and prayer (and a personal physician)...some of these studies do no more than scare the heck out of people

 

[My Friend]

meh, im a redhead and my pain tolerance is way high!!

From Wiki:

The unexpected relationship of hair color to pain tolerance appears to be due to the fact that redheads have a mutation in a hormone receptor that can apparently respond to at least two different hormones: the skin pigmentation hormone melanocyte-stimulating hormone, and the pain relieving hormone known as endorphins. (These hormones are both derived from the same precursor molecule, POMC, and are structurally similar.)

Specifically, redheads have a mutated MC1R gene, which produces a mutated MC1R receptor, also known as the melanocortin-1 receptor.[32] Melanocytes, which are cells that produce pigment in skin and hair, use the MC1R receptor to recognize and respond to melanocyte-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary gland. Melanocyte-stimulating hormone normally stimulates melanocytes to make black eumelanin, but if the melanocytes have a mutated MC1R receptor, they will make reddish pheomelanin instead. The MC1R receptor also occurs in the brain, where it is one of a large set of POMC-related receptors that are apparently involved not only in responding to MSH, but also in responses to endorphins and possibly other POMC-derived hormones.[32]

Though the details are not clearly understood, it appears that there is some "cross talk" between the POMC hormones that may explain the link between red hair and pain tolerance

 

[My Friend]

I think I will stick with healthy living, exercise, a good diet, and prayer (and a personal physician)...some of these studies do no more than scare the heck out of people

They sure do.

I wonder if they approve medications based on these studies? Is there a Dr. in the house?

 

[My Friend]

ok um what about the black/dark brown?

HTH

Shades of Brunette

Brown hair comes in a wide variety of shades from the very darkest of brown (almost black) to light brown showing small signs of blondism.[1] Shades of brown hair include:

• Deepest brunette - The darkest brown, which can be a very Dark Chestnut; sometimes appears to be off black at a distance.[2]
• Dark brown.
• Milk chocolate brown .
• Chestnut brown - Medium to dark brown with dark red/auburn tones.
• Light chestnut brown.
• Auburn brown - reddish shade of brown hair.
• Medium brown.
• Medium (golden) brown - brown with yellowish tone.
• Light golden brown.
• Light golden reddish brown - A warm light brown with red tones.
• Light ash brown.
• Lightest brown.

 

[JuiceMobsta]

HTH

Shades of Brunette

Brown hair comes in a wide variety of shades from the very darkest of brown (almost black) to light brown showing small signs of blondism.[1] Shades of brown hair include:

• Deepest brunette - The darkest brown, which can be a very Dark Chestnut; sometimes appears to be off black at a distance.[2]
• Dark brown.
• Milk chocolate brown .
• Chestnut brown - Medium to dark brown with dark red/auburn tones.
• Light chestnut brown.
• Auburn brown - reddish shade of brown hair.
• Medium brown.
• Medium (golden) brown - brown with yellowish tone.
• Light golden brown.
• Light golden reddish brown - A warm light brown with red tones.
• Light ash brown.
• Lightest brown.

Hmmm I have the blondism thing goin on, maybe I'm the light golden reddish brown...

 

[My Friend]

^^^ pic's please

 

[My Friend]

I think I'm off black.

 

[JuiceMobsta]

I think I'm off black.

Lol @ off black...like off-white...

 

[Janet']

Hmm...interesting...

 

[My Friend]

Hmm...interesting...

I thought it was too. I know alot of people on this board have family member's of many races. We have medical students who may be able to research this and share with us their findings. Also, we have members in beauty school who may find this handy.

 

[loolalooh]

Hmm ... come to think of it, I rarely see blonde or red haired baldies. Interesting indeed.