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PARA-AMINOBENZOIC ACID (PABA)

PABA is one of the B vitamins that helps copper metabolism.

From: Darlene
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Started supplementing PABA about two years ago, on a blurb in "Prescription for Nutritional Healing" by James and Phyllis Balch. "Delays wrinkles." Bought some.

I'm 43, and just starting to gray. Dark brown hair, so they're really noticeable. My secret to younger looking hair? The needle-nosed pliars. Works great. My point in saying that, is that because I yank them individually, I have a good feel for how many there were last time, and if there are more, etc. Before I went hyper, I got lazy once, and didn't replace the PABA when I ran out. It was supposed to delay wrinkles, but I hadn't read that anywhere else, so, what's the big deal? I swear, the grays sprouted like weeds. So I yanked them again, replaced the bottle, and now they're coming in a more "manageable" pace.

The most interesting event though, is that I hadn't noticed my graying when I first started the PABA. Then when I started pulling them, I'd look closely to make sure I'd "bagged" the correct hair (takes practice). About six months into it, on at least three occasions, I remember looking at a hair that was obviously gray on the oldest part, abruptly changed back to dark brown, and continued to dark brown into the newest, "follicle" part. Couldn't have mistaken, either, as the "new" end has a round sphere-like thing on the end of it. Even showed it to my mom, as it was so bizarre (if anything, it's supposed to do the opposite).

I strongly believe it was the PABA. Won't do it on all the follicles, but if you're determined not to "cover the gray" chemically, you may be doing two good things with one supplement I was taking about 200 mg./day. I'm at 300 now.