Did you know that LCHF / paleo based diets are good for getting rid of grey hair?
Now I'm by no means vain about my grey hair. I've had grey hair since I was in my early ’20s, vey likely due to my poor diet at the time, and the several decades since, according to Doctor Luan Pho grey hairs are a sign of both high carb and low protein diets.
In low carb, high fat diets, we are encouraged through macronutrient requirements to eat more protein than many on pure carbohydrate based diets often do. This can have many beneficial effects, not the least of which is allowing our bodies to produce dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, coenzyme Q10, and thyroid hormones.
Doctor Pho says “[Grey hairs happen] when your body is unable to synthesize an adequate amount of melanin. Melanin is the pigmentation that gives your hair its natural color. In order to make melanin, your body needs a specific non-essential but yet conditional amino acid called tyrosine. [...] The availability of the needed amount of tyrosine may become deficient due to an incomplete diet low in protein.”
The exciting news, at least for me is the fact that it has been shown that people who go on a low carb, high fat diet, with adequate amounts of proteins can actually reverse this effect and eventually the grey hair will recede and be replaced with healthy, properly coloured hair, naturally.
