Rapid greying of Obama's hair raises the question: Can stress turn hair grey?

Yahoo! ^ | January 20, 2009 | Helen Branswell/Canadian Press

[DGHoodini]

I’d have to say yes.

[brytlea]

It’s probably the truth about Roswell....

[Titus-Maximus]

How would you feel if they told you they had dragged a ticking suitcase nuke out of Grand Central Station and defused it in a milk truck on 42nd street, on a Monday morning? You would be passing 2 by 4’s.

Now he realizes that he might want Dick Cheney on his speed dial.

[brytlea]

It’s funny, even my liberal friends are now careful to mention to me that of course Obama can’t fix things quickly. Kind of a change of tune.

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

Yes, stress can turn hair grey.

Aw dang, you went and answered it. I was going to write in to Mythbusters and see if they'd try this out. ;-)

Not sure how they'd test it, but most of their confirming or busting of myths and urban legends seems to involve shooting something; blowing something up; drinking; or (poorly) remote controlled full-sized cars. Maybe they just need to put their producers in front of the camera once, I'll bet they're gray already.

[brytlea]

My Mom had the same thing happen. It was straight and gray before chemo, then when it came back in it was brown and curly. It went gray and straight again tho.

[IYAS9YAS]

Hmmm, I once read that the heavy use of marijuana would cause a person's hair to become prematurely gray.

Mine's been going grey since I was 20. Only thing I've smoked is tires. Now approaching 40, the grey has a slight lead in land ownership, but the brown is not conceding defeat.

[FormerLib]

Anyone have that “Presidentin’ is HARD” graphic?

[6323cd]

When my mom died very unexpectedly, my hair all fell out, then it grew back silvery-white. (I was then 32 years old.) That was the least of my worries at that time, though.

[Houghton M.]

Is it possible to produce this particular type of graying by using hair coloring? If so, then my bet is that rather than his hair having started to gray, which he concealed by dyeing it black during the campaign, instead, he deliberately artificially grayed it in order to gain some gravitas.

Just a thought.

[Kirkwood]

He’ll look like that guy on the Uncle Ben’s rice box before too long.

[Textide]

That’s just it. The man HASN’T DONE ANYTHING YET!

[WellyP]

You are on to something. Lying produces a LOT of stress, you have to cover your tracks. As we all know, you can not lie to your self and Obama knows he is a walking talking lying machine! That is where the stress comes from!

[WellyP]

Weak insecure people are much more likely to die their hair!

[BenLurkin]

Barack Obama appears to come by his nickname honestly.

Obamessiah?

[CharlieOK1]

Stopped my hairloss in its tracks

That got my attention. I'm marking your post for reference.

[razorback-bert]

Wait until we see turfs missing, where he has pulled it out or it catches fire.

[B-Chan]

How would you feel if they told you they had dragged a ticking suitcase nuke out of Grand Central Station and defused it in a milk truck on 42nd street, on a Monday morning? You would be passing 2 by 4’s.

I'm passing 2x4s just reading your hypothetical. Which I sincerely hope IS hypothetical. God, please spare our country that test!

[ASOC]

” Whatever it is they tell you must be a real humdinger.”

How about - you hold the power to utterly destroy all human life on this planet - 7 times over...

Nukes are not for Kindergartners

[Vanders9]

its the credit crunch! He cant afford his grecian any more!