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The article focuses on the effect of stress on hair. It mentions that folicular stress is apparently evident in U.S. President Barack Obama and former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. It is said that the most celebrated follicular turnover due to life-threatening stress is that of Queen Marie-Antoinette of France whose scalp hair allegedly turned white after being condemned to death in 1793. It discusses how oxidative and not political stress results to the graying of hair.

The article discusses the contribution of the late U.S. chief resident physician and surgeon Claude Bernard and French physiologist Judah Folkman on medical science, particularly in experimental biology. The discoveries made by Bernard include, the use of a catheter to enter the heart of a dog and the derivation of blood glucose from liver glycogen. Folkman has been well-known for his formulation of angiogenesis and anti-angiogenesis. He was born on Cleveland, Ohio and attended the Ohio State University.