A paper came up in my feed this week about reactivating follicular melanocytes to reverse graying - using a nanocapsule delivery mechanism to switch the pigment cells back on rather than trying to replace them. Interesting science. The cells are apparently still there in many cases, just dormant, which is a meaningfully different problem than follicle death. But what stuck with me wasn’t the mechanism. It was the realisation that I have no baseline for my own graying whatsoever. I started going grey at the temples around 34, maybe 35. I couldn’t tell you whether it tracked with a high-stress period, or whether it slowed at any point, or what else was changing at the same time. I just noticed it had happened. This is the same gap I ran into with my shoulder recovery - you end up with an impression of change but nothing to compare it against. ROM in degrees before dosing is data. “I think it’s looser” is a feeling. Gray progression is one of those biological signals most of us observe but never actually log. If this research moves toward anything accessible, the people who’ll get the most from it are the ones who documented where they started. I’ve begun adding a rough photo note with dates alongside my other health check-ins. It’s not rigorous, but it’s a baseline. Being able to export that log for a GP appointment is actually what made me take the habit seriously - the discipline of sharing it with someone forces you to structure it properly. Translation from lab to something usable is years out at minimum. But the documentation problem is solvable right now.