Silver threads

Up on top of my melon, melanocyte stem cells (McSCs) were stuck, and unable to make the protein needed to keep my lustrous brown hair brown.  Some scientists are saying this is why I have so much gray hair.

This was all written up in the journal Nature, where researchers from New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine talked about how McSCs "travel between compartments of developing hair follicles in a healthy situation." They figured this using mice, and let's be frank: Mickey is about 100 years old, and I don't see any gray hair on his head.

But in some cases, the McSCs can get stuck in the hair follicle bulge compartment, and that means no pigment cells...and no color except "snow on the roof."

And what's more, scientists should take note that we non-scientists don't like seeing the word "bulge" used to refer to any part of our bodies.

That explains why so many of us are called "fatheads."

Good news: these folks say if they can find a way to get the proteins in our hair to hang around the right compartment in our hairs, we can ditch the Clairol and look like we're still 18 forever.

Or have people say, yeah, he's old, but he sure can throw down.

Or fall down, whatever.