According to the Daily Mail, Chinese actress Guo Tong Duyin says she’s getting injections that restore her natural hair color. At 37 years old, she revealed that her graying is not due to genetics but to a stressful lifestyle.
The actress has already undergone ten procedures at a hospital in Shanghai and claims that dark strands have begun to appear at her roots. She admitted that for her, this is a way to ease the daily anxiety she feels about her appearance.
Guo Tong Duyin after treatment
The Science Behind It: Vitamin B12 and Exosomes
Doctors say the injections contain a form of vitamin B12 called adenosylcobalamin. Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine believe it can stimulate melanocyte activity and melanin production, the pigment responsible for hair, skin, and eye color.
Some specialists are also experimenting with microneedling and exosomes—tiny vesicles that may “awaken” melanocytes in hair follicles. Melanocytes gradually reduce pigment production with age, which leads to gray hair.
Skepticism and Hope
Despite stories of positive effects, leading British dermatologists urge caution. They say there is currently insufficient evidence to support the effectiveness of these methods. A few small cases have shown partial darkening of hair, but that does not prove that youth can be restored for everyone.
Moreover, regulators have not approved exosome injections as a treatment for gray hair and consider promoting such procedures premature.
Will This Be a Breakthrough?
Injections that promise to restore natural hair color have sparked a lot of interest. For some people, they represent hope for “eternal youth”; for others, they are an expensive gamble with no guarantees.
Scientists agree on one point: graying is a natural process, and any new treatment needs serious, long-term research. For now, the promise of “black strands instead of white” remains more sensation than proven fact.
Photo: Unsplash
