Gray hair can also be result of a medical condition. If you are deficient in B12 or suffer from a thyroid imbalance it can also cause your hair to go Gray.

The sudden appearance of Gray hair is not due to psychological shock or trauma. Studies have shown that if this does happen then it’s typically due to Alopecia areata. What happens here is that thicker, darker hairs stop growing before it effects growth of Gray hairs, giving impression of Gray hair overnight. Alopecia areata eventually causes round shaped patches of hair loss or complete hair loss.

In fact, most medications contain far more Pseudo ephedrine in 2 Pills, because of its concentrated form, than an entire weeks worth of nutritional supplements which contain natural ephedra.

Dr. Linda Page, N.D., Ph.D., Dr. Page has been a Classical Herbalist for almost 30 years and has formulated over 250 effective whole herb combinations, many of them containing ephedra. Dr. Page writes:

"I am continually distressed about ephedra's misuse and abuse, most importantly isolated component of ephedra, ephedrine. If herbalists and formulators lose ability to use ephedra, we are losing one of best broncho-dilators from plant kingdom that is extremely valuable when used for asthma and allergies. What then would people have to choose from to alleviate their symptoms? Drugs of course”.

So what's difference between ephedra and ephedrine? Dr. Page explains that “in a whole herb formulation containing ephedra, there may be up to 50 mg of ephedra, containing only HALF a milligram of ephedrine. But products that isolate ephedrine may deliver up to 20 mg of ephedrine - a full 40 times as much as ephedra!”.

Yet, You can walk into any drug store or grocery store to find a few dozen cold, sinus and CHILDREN’S products which contain pseudo ephedrine hcl. Yes, that’s right 15mg of pseudo ephedrine hcl in a children’s decongestant.

So you are asking yourself "wait a minute, what about all over counter medications which contain synthetic ephedrine?, Why aren't those banned?"

That’s a great question, you'll have to ask fda.

Sources:

Jenny Thompson, HSI e-alert – “Get it right”, 4/21/2005

Jenny Thompson, HSI e-alert “Circle Wagons”, 1/8/2004