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Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by CptJamesCook »

purple_ferret wrote: post #47

Anyone who looks at Elon Musk can tell hair can always come back if you have enough $$$

A hair transplant isn't extremely expensive, and price is definitely not the limiting factor on the result you can achieve. They cost around $10k on the low end and $35k from the most expensive doctors in the USA.

Elon was lucky to have great donor sites for the hair. Likely also started using finasteride, minoxidil, and a DHT inhibiting shampoo right around when he got the transplant if not a couple years before.

I've had 3 hair transplants myself, and have spent enough time in and around hair transplant surgeon's offices to know that the vast majority of cases don't turn out as well as Elon's. Most people just don't have enough hair.

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by SyzygistSix »

strawBarry wrote: post #38

I'm in my 50's and have a full head of luxurious hair, with almost no gray. I don't say this to brag, but rather the opposite, it has never helped me in any way to attract women. In fact, if I let it grow out it looks terrible because I just look like an old man with young man's hair. Very disconcerting in the mirror. I guess my message is...hair doesn't matter as much as people are led to believe. Teeth on the other…

Off subject: yellow is the normal color of teeth. Exceptionally white teeth look really weird, although the artificial, plastic, tv look is apparently embraced by some.

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by maverick2007 »

bichiliad wrote: post #2

I'm overlooking the "teeth" part of this story to share a bit of an anecdote here. I'm a guy, and I lost my hair when I was about 21. I spent a while trying every medication (many of which have sexual health side effects), but I don't think I was ever actually happy until I just accepted that I was bald and that was just part of how I looked. Don't get me wrong — I would love having hair again, but it doesn't bother…

Adding my anecdote to this thread:

Started noticing hair loss in my early 20s but managed to convince myself that it was just stress. By my mid 20s when I was in a very low stress position I finally concluded that it was just plain MPB. I continued to ignore it for a while, just cutting my hair a little shorter than the longer hair that I wore before (usually more out of laziness than anything else). It finally came to a head a couple of months ago when I noticed that I had stopped turning the lights on when I went into the bathroom because I didn't want to see how thin my hair looked that day. That day I made an appointment with my doctor and got a prescription for Finasteride. Since I was very afraid of the sexual side effects of the drug, before I started I decided to shave my head to confirm my suspicions that I didn't like the shaved look. If I hated it, I'd start the medication and deal with the sides. Funny thing is, I really liked it. People don't treat me any differently than they did before which is what I was afraid of. Sure, women don't come up and hit on me but they never did when I had longer hair either so I consider it a wash. And I like it more and more now that I'm hitting the gym and adding muscle. Bald + muscular is a great look. Shaving my head (down to a #1 in my case) isn't my ideal situation but the way I see it, MPB is a better condition to have than many, many other genetic conditions.

If you're where I was a couple of months ago and your thinning hair is stressing you out, just give it a shot and shave your head. Best case, you like it like I do. Worst case, you hate it and you can see if fin would work for you.

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by thewarrior »

iMark wrote: post #28

Shaving my head was the best decision I ever made regarding my hair. I never knew what to do with it before that. Vastly happier now.

This worked for me too and has been pretty neat during the pandemic. The key is to do proper fades on what is left and balance out with a little bit of a beard.

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by thatcat »

samstave wrote: post #48
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If it helps anyone else out there: no one else thinks about your hair besides you. I mean, kinda. Sure, nobody is probably stressing about how many centimeters your scalp is receding, but you can bet lots of people will be more attracted to someone who looks young with a full head of hair compared to someone who has typical male pattern baldness. Just google "male hair restoration before and after" for some example…

What procedure did Elon Musk have? His hair looks great, but the hair he had at paypal was like cotton candy.

When he hooked up with Grimes it just kinda grew back..

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by starkd »

pyrophane wrote: post #23

It sounds like the approach here is to take some hair from your head, use it to culture new hair follicles, and then implant those. Also of note, they haven't started clinical research yet, so that would be the next step. If that pans out, then presumably there would be trials, which means this probably would not practically be available for many more years. As an aside, this kind of thing seems quite common in the a…

It happens time and again. Ever notice it's always "just 5 to 10 years away". It's a ploy to gain research funding.

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by sep_field »

dan1234 wrote: post #65
dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has it ever been not socially acceptable to shave your head as a male? I have a feeling the "shave it all off" has been a strategy ever since we've had razors sharp enough. edit: a comment below mentions that it is unacceptable nowadays in some East Asian cultures.

As a tall, skinny white guy who also likes leather jackets, I fear if I shave my head I'll be lumped in with the neo nazi sympathisers.

Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice got you covered. Just get some SHARPs patches on your jackets and have fun punching nazis :) Helps also if you get steel-toed boots. Was quite the thing back in the 80s punk scene.

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Post by jacob2484 »

dan1234 wrote: post #65
dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has it ever been not socially acceptable to shave your head as a male? I have a feeling the "shave it all off" has been a strategy ever since we've had razors sharp enough. edit: a comment below mentions that it is unacceptable nowadays in some East Asian cultures.

As a tall, skinny white guy who also likes leather jackets, I fear if I shave my head I'll be lumped in with the neo nazi sympathisers.

So you think every skinny white guy who also likes leather jackets is a neo nazi sympathiser? Don't assume/worry what others think about your look

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by f6v »

pen2l wrote: post #66
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If it helps anyone else out there: no one else thinks about your hair besides you. I mean, kinda. Sure, nobody is probably stressing about how many centimeters your scalp is receding, but you can bet lots of people will be more attracted to someone who looks young with a full head of hair compared to someone who has typical male pattern baldness. Just google "male hair restoration before and after" for some example…

There's a running joke on the wsb subreddit about this, about the return that Elon saw in getting his hair fixed (I can't find the specific phrasing and construct of the joke at the moment), but anyway his transformation is fairly notable and there's no doubt it contributed in some part to his success: https://thenewdaily.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/elon-m... I wish it were not true, but I think it sadly is, th…

Then there's Jeff who doesn't care.
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