Gap Fill - Greying Hair - Level 6

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   aging      centuries      century      follicles      link      locks      night      pigment      roots      stress  

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People have wondered for about the between stress and greying hair. It is believed that France's Queen Marie Antoinette's hair turned white the before she was beheaded during the French Revolution in the late-eighteenth . More recently, we have witnessed the of presidents and other world leaders quickly lose color. The strains of leadership seem to go to the of things, especially hair . Professor Hsu said the loss of the pigment-regenerating stem cells cannot be reversed. She said: "Once they're gone, you can't regenerate any more. The damage is permanent." Worryingly, she hypothesised that could be responsible for accelerating the process.

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