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TWiN 7: Stress, the good, bad and beautiful

This Week in Neuroscience

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The Effects of RTX on Hair Coloration

Stress can induce different types of hormones in the body. When you're stressed your adrenal gland produces glucocorticoids which circulate and are act as a hormone to signal stress to the rest of the body. And then there's a neural pathway called the sympathetic nervous system which secretes norepinephrine locally that signals kind of the stress response. So they decided to say well okay so this stress induces hair grain which of these two possible pathways either glucocortioids or the sympathetic nervous System are signaling to make the hair grain. They eliminated both but instead found it was neither cortisol nor Norepinephrine causing gray hair. But I don't think you can interpret their data

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