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- interrelate, on 06/22/2009, -1/+14grey or gray?
- dborgir, on 06/22/2009, -1/+13I've seen it happen. Also, you should not call a ginger a ginger. Only a ginger can call another ginger ginger.
- breakneckridge, on 06/22/2009, -1/+12Nope, they're fully interchangeable. The color is correctly spelled as either "grey" or "gray". Same goes with the word calendar. The spellings calender and calendar are both accepted spellings.
- breakneckridge, on 06/22/2009, -1/+11I don't think you understood the article (or maybe I haven't understood the article). Each extra grey hair you get doesn't give you extra additional resistance to cancer, grey hairs are evidence that the DNA inside one of your cells was damaged, and as a last-line of defense against one of the damaged cells possibly becoming cancerous, your body decides that it's better to permanently turn off that cell's ability to proliferate. Or at least that what this article said. So according to them, grey hairs are an indication that the cells in your body have damage in their DNA. At best, the most positive spin you could put on this news is to say that maybe you don't have more DNA damage which lead to more grey hairs, rather maybe your DNA has sustained an average amount of DNA damage but you body is more able to shut down the proliferation ability of cells with damaged DNA.
- Brentg7, on 06/22/2009, -1/+10Both
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey - VictoryGin, on 06/22/2009, -3/+11same here. I'm 25 and greying more all the time.
My grandmother was solid grey at age 19 though, so it may just be genetics. - ripple123, on 06/22/2009, -2/+10i hear that when gingers die, they spontaneously burst into flames, and slowly rise into the air, while screaming with the horror of the damned, before dissappearing in a puff of acrid smoke and ash.
- wildkats74, on 06/22/2009, -0/+5I guess those of us going bald, our hair just said f*ck it it's no use
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -4/+9Good news for me... I'm going grey fairly young.
- leontes, on 06/22/2009, -6/+10These things that happen to us: to our bodies are products of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. It makes sense that something as simple as the loss of pigmentation might end up providing extra protection from when the body develops self-destructive mutations. This is why it's so necessary to have genetic diversity; we'll never know what traits are handy. Mutation is random, but we are dealing with such a long period of time, we can trust that lasting traits may have some benefit.
- KSUdesigner, on 06/22/2009, -0/+4Not entirely. Gray is American, but grey is also used in some parts of the U.S.
- dborgir, on 06/22/2009, -1/+4Grey is a name?
EDIT: I'm going with Wikipedia on this one. Grey seems to be prevalent, except in HTML colo(u)r names, that is. - K4Lic0, on 06/22/2009, -2/+5My mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, luckily it is curable and she has some of the top cancer doctors in the US. She's expected to have all the cancer gone from her body by October. I mention this because she's losing her hair from the chemo, but when it comes back, it's expected to be grayer than before, now I know why.
- ThraxyWaxy, on 06/22/2009, -0/+3what about all the other effects of aging, wrinkles, loss of bone density, heart failure? are these products of evolution or just humanity getting *****?
- CJ117, on 06/22/2009, -1/+3Steve Martin must be the cure to cancer!!
- SanDiegoFreeway, on 06/22/2009, -0/+2I'd call it a byproduct, really. Most of the negative physical changes that come with aging are present because there's no selection pressure to eliminate them. People reproduce before they get old.
- diceau, on 06/22/2009, -0/+2Immortality defeats the purpose of evolution. Dying is necessary. Just imagine if Jessica Alba's parents became immortal and didn't need to have her?
Insert whichever girl you like's name in there.
Humankind isn't being *****, but some of humankind try to ***** evolution. The whole purpose of male and female is to strengthen genetic codes so that we become a healthier and better species. There is no end in sight really, it's just how we've survived and thus how it works. - foofoobee, on 06/22/2009, -1/+3I think this is only part of the reason... the overall stress probably plays a role as well in the graying. All the best to her.
- treas, on 06/22/2009, -0/+2Yes, you should also take a bath in toxic waste and then RTFA
- Jeepinator, on 06/22/2009, -0/+2The hair doesn't fight. It is a sign of your bodies reaction to something like damaged cell DNA.
- macguyincali, on 06/22/2009, -1/+3K4: Best of luck to you and your mother. Being positive is important, but don't take this illness for granted. It is a bitch. There is no such thing as a cancer that is guaranteed curable. Once her cancer is in remission, she needs to religiously get her cancer screenings every 6 months. Even after 10 years. My mom had a double mastectomy, chemo and went into remission more than a decade ago. She was fine, healthy and happy for over 10 years then the cancer returned and it metastasized (spread to other organs). She had delayed on just one of her screening tests by a few months (too busy traveling and having a good time, and also maybe a bit in denial). She bravely fought it and unfortunately, she passed away. As most people do when they lose a loved one, I wish I had valued more the time we had together. I assumed that the cancer was behind us. We spoke on the phone every 3 or 4 weeks, visited once or twice a year. Not nearly enough. When me and my brothers started having kids a few years back, we saw her more, which was a blessing. Now I am going through all my photos and of course I have like 10,000 pictures of my kids and other stuff, but I realized I only took a handful of pictures of my mom. I wish I had captured more shots of her to remember her by.
Look, I don't mean to damper your enthusiasm, but just don't make the mistake I made and just take for granted that you will have a long happy life with your mom and not appreciate her as fully as you can. The odds are very much in your favor and breast cancer is among the most treatable cancers, but still, always remember that our loved ones can be taken from us at any time... appreciate and relish those relationships. I guess this applies to everyone, really. Life is shorter than we think, and unpredictable. - PabloIV, on 06/22/2009, -1/+3As long as you don't use printers regularly.
- AmnesiacJack, on 06/22/2009, -0/+2So am I in trouble since I started going grey at 15? I've got a lot of grey hair now just 10 years later so has my hair been sacrificing its life to keep me alive? What if I go bald? Will my chest hair stand up and continue the fight?
- KenOh, on 06/22/2009, -1/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Gray
- aoki5, on 06/22/2009, -2/+3gray is american and grey is british, now you know
- Amadeus2490, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1And in related news: People with black hair over 500 times more likely to be diagnosed with cancer.
FFFFFFUUUUUUUU- - Hellahulla, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Really? That's a shame, he's one of the guys on my must stalk list.
- KSUdesigner, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Do you have a source to back up these claims? I really don't think that old people get cancer more than anybody else. I know a lot of young to middle-aged people who've had cancer, but few old people.
Also, the first part of your comment seems to contradict the second part. If cancer growth slows as your growth hormones slow, why would old people get cancer more than anybody else?
Sounds to me like you're talking out of your ass, but if you can show me some proof then I'll believe you. - netdroid9, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1You should use the scientific name, Pan Ranger (pronounced Rang-her).
- diggydougie, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1I see it as more of an effect than a cause. It is well known that growth hormones tend to increase cancer. When you get old and your growth hormones slow down so does the cancer growth. The grey hair is just an indicator of the process.
But cancer also tends to happen more to old people, so I don't really know what to make of that. - diggopolous, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1gris is the word
- FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 06/22/2009, -2/+2i met him once. total *****. so if that's a corollary, then as a gay guy, i'm totally immune!
- mark076h, on 06/22/2009, -3/+3leontes typed in a really fast to reserve the first comment.
- Richvideo, on 06/22/2009, -1/+1I thought that this was the cause of grey hair and not stem cell damage.
http://digg.com/d1tSyj - Chameleongoo, on 06/22/2009, -1/+1Anybody catch the new Joe Rogan special last night? He had a joke about how he was cool about losing color in his ball hair, because it was just his bodies way of routing resources to keep him alive in his old age.
- nannydicosta, on 06/22/2009, -0/+0Does this mean that people who have grey hair on an early age, already have had a fight against cancer in their body?
- diggydougie, on 06/22/2009, -1/+1Breast cancer:
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/statistics/age.ht ...
Oh, and the cancer that I have:
The average lifetime risk of getting CLL is about 0.5%, or 1 in 200. With an average age at diagnosis of around 70 years, CLL is mostly diagnosed in people over the age of 50, rarely in people under the age of 40, and is extremely rare in children. For unknown reasons, CLL is more often diagnosed in men than women.
I was diagnosed in my fourties (what luck).
And who the ***** are you? This is a comments page not a research document. If you want to follow up on your thoughts you can feel free to google anything you want. - DaryLintheDark, on 06/22/2009, -1/+1not true, my mom has been going grey since 16, and she's in the middle of fighting breast cancer.
study fail - Dogswithguns, on 06/22/2009, -0/+0and I thought Im dying cuz I have grey hair everyday.... I started having a few grey since I was 17. now Im 40 it's like 35%.
- samsonshet, on 10/10/2009, -0/+0GREY hair may be unwelcome, but the processes that produce it are now better understood and could be protecting us from cancer.
Cells called melanocytes produce the pigments that colour hair and their numbers are kept topped up by stem cells. Hair goes grey when the number of stem cells in hair follicles declines. Now Emi Nishimura of Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan and colleagues have found what causes this decline in mice.
http://www.stop-hairloss.co.cc/ - DivineMonkey, on 06/22/2009, -2/+1Sweet, i've been protected since the age of 17 and it's only getting better (or worse).
- michelsonmorley, on 06/22/2009, -2/+1Mice get gray hair because they've been exposed to radiation? I don't think I understand the article, because I don't see how gray hair protects us from cancer, instead of gray hair being just a result of cancerous cells.
- pseudononymist, on 06/22/2009, -2/+1just because some people use it doesn't mean it's right. e.g., some people say "it happened on accident" but they are wrong; it happened 'by accident'. This doesn't mean things can't change, but until things do change they are wrong, and not just according to linguists, but according to most educated people.
- RadiatedAnt, on 06/22/2009, -3/+2you just die now...
- FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 06/22/2009, -3/+2i've been going grey since i was 14. so, i guess i can just keep smoking, eh?
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -2/+0I don't get it.
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