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experiment reveals gray hair means damaged dna – so baldness means lack of dna?

Can mental or emotional stress damage our DNA? An experiment has shown that the presence of gray hair means that the melanocyte stem cells in hair follicles – that ones that become melanocytes that give color to hair - have badly damaged DNA. In response, our body forces these DNA damaged stem cells into early…

June 12th, 2009 comments (5) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

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