Cosmo Landesman

I’m grey – and proud

issue 29 April 2023

In the wake of new research by New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, scientists think a treatment for stopping our hair going grey – and even reversing it – may soon be possible. Their optimism is based on early positive experiments with mice, which is great news if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a man over 60 and totally grey like me?

Yes, women go grey too – but it’s different for them.

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