Your hair can also signal stress

 Iceland: It has been revealed that stress can also affect your hair or stress can be gauged by looking at your hair.

In this context, the hair of more than 1,200 women over the age of 18 in Mexico and Iceland was examined and they also filled out questionnaires about mental stress and depression, including the determination of the level of mental stress (stress scale). has been.

It was found that women who were obese during depression and stress had higher levels of cortisol in their hair. That is, an increased level of stress showed a 1.4% increase in cortisol in the hair.

Cortisol is a hormone that is released by the adrenal glands above the kidneys in response to stress. Then it dissolves in the blood and reaches the root of the hair.

First it travels to the medulla, a place in the root of the hair where its quantity can be noted. Although we have quantified it in the form of mental stress, now experts have described it as a reliable biomarker.

Experts believe that people with chronic stress have elevated levels of cortisol in their hair, which is also a biological marker. A clear distinction has been made between cortisol and depression in kinematic hairs.

Most of the study population were school-age students who were experiencing varying degrees of stress.

On the other hand, experts have said that stress can lead to many diseases, long-term illnesses and even premature death, but another thing that came out of this study is that young women have less stress than older women. The ratio was high which was also visible in the hair hormone.