“I’m Not George Clooney, but I Feel More Attractive Now”: Why Younger and Younger Men Embrace Gray Hair

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Blame the irreversible decline of melanocytes. These cells located in hair follicles are color stajanovists, tenacious producers of capillary melanin, until, from the fourth decade of life, they begin to strike off their fallen arms. The enzyme that nourishes them, the catalase, begins to wane with age, the hydrogen peroxide to which they fight accumulates in the follicles whitening them from the root and the melanocytes, simply leaving their tr…