Will vitamin B-complex reduce grey hair?!


Question: Will vitamin B-complex reduce grey hair.?
I am a 20 year old female who discovered one grey hair, today. I read that a lack of B12 vitamin is one of the causes of grey hair.

Since B vitamins work best together, should I start taking vitamin B-complex rather than just B12 by itself.?Health Question & Answer


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A B12 deficiency may lead to premature greying - but I doubt if B12 supplementation will prevent grey hair if you're otherwise healthy. Do you think you have a deficiency.?

"Vitamin B-12 deficiency can potentially cause severe and irreversible damage, especially to the brain and nervous system. At levels only slightly lower than normal, a range of symptoms such as fatigue, depression, and poor memory may be experienced. However, these symptoms by themselves are too nonspecific to diagnose deficiency of the vitamin.

Vitamin B-12 deficiency can also cause symptoms of mania and psychosis.

Vitamin B-12 deficiency has the following pathomorphology and symptoms:

Pathomorphology includes: A spongiform state of neural tissue along with edema of fibers and deficiency of tissue. The myelin decays, along with axial fiber. In later phases, fibric sclerosis of nervous tissues occurs. Those changes apply to dorsal parts of the spinal cord, and to pyramidal tracts in lateral cords.

In the brain itself, changes are less severe: they occur as small sources of nervous fibers decay and accumulation of astrocytes, usually subcortically located, an also round hemorrhages with a torus of glial cells. Pathological changes can be noticed as well in the posterior roots of the cord and, to lesser extent, in peripheral nerves.

Clinical symptoms : The main syndrome of vitamin B-12 deficiency is Biermer's disease (pernicious anemia). It is characterized by a triad of symptoms:

Anemia with bone marrow promegaloblastosis (megaloblastic anemia)
Gastrointestinal symptoms
Neurological symptoms
Each of those symptoms can occur either alone or along with others. The neurological complex, defined as myelosis funicularis, consists of the following symptoms:

Impaired perception of deep touch, pressure and vibration, abolishment of sense of touch, very annoying and persistent paresthesias.
Ataxia of dorsal cord type
Decrease or abolishment of deep muscle-tendon reflexes;
Pathological reflexes - Babinski, Rossolimo and others, also severe paresis.

During the course of disease, mental disorders can occur which include: irritability, focus/concentration problems, depressive state with suicidal tendencies, paraphrenia complex. These symptoms may not reverse after correction of hematological abnormalities, and the chance of complete reversal decreases with the length of time the neurological symptoms have been present."
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