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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 downandout »

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…

Elon Musk is a great example of what is possible with hair transplants. He had severe balding at a very young age, and you would never know it today. I have a feeling that public perception of him would be quite a bit different if he still looked like his old self. Here is a before and after...the “before” image was taken in 2002:

https://pagesix-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/pagesix.com/wp-co...

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

#92

Post by bluGill »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #8
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…

> 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 are plenty of females attracted to older males. The reverse is not nearly as true. There is a good genetic basis for this: young females that breed with an old male bring in whatever genetics cause long life. However old females are unable to breed at all so males that attempt to breed with older females fail and thus don't pass their genes on.

The above is really messy as it applies to the real world, but the basics are true enough.

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by azinman2 »

rootusrootus wrote: post #6
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…

> no one else thinks about your hair besides you To expand on that, my favorite quote (from Eleanor Roosevelt, who seems to have been quite quotable...): "You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." I totally agree. People are almost 100% caught up in themselves, and barely have time to think about their own family, much less friends, acquaintances, and last of all s…

Well of course they don’t actively worry about your hair, but most certainly it’s one of the factors on whether people find you attractive or not. And that can still have real consequences even if people aren’t “worried about you.”

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by Koshkin »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #12
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…

I dunno man, Patrick Stewart has always been mostly bald and is he any less attractive for it? It has the extra added benefit that you can't tell someone's age, so in his case he's been in his 40's throughout his career.

"Go baldly where no one has gone before."

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by f6v »

I'm losing hair and can't grow a beard(I can grow muscle, and testosterone is fine). So viking look isn't an option. But anything related to this research isn't hitting clinic in the next decades.

We came a long way when it comes to reprogramming cells in-vitro, and I'm sure further research will allow inducing growth on demand. However, it'd be hard to guarantee the growth won't result in cancer somewhere down the line. Unfortunately, for all of us who lose teeth the improvements in implantation technology are the only hope.

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by kowlo »

rabuse wrote: post #50
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…

I have the opposite experience. I have pretty long hair for a guy, and it's extremely wavy and full, and it attracts women all the time when I'm out. They love to braid it, and style it.

Women are attracted to you and start braiding and styling your hair whilst you're out?

I must be missing something.

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by pdpi »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #8
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…

> 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…

> 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.

People are attracted to confidence. A person who has issues about self-image (baldness being one particular aspect of that) will always be less attractive from that angle alone.

If you're bald and feel self-conscious about it making you unattractive, the better road to attractiveness is to stop being self-conscious (easier said than done), rather than stopping being bald (even harder to do). This is basically what the OP is alluding to: the solution to the "baldness problem" isn't treatment, but rather acceptance.

Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by [deleted] »

samstave wrote: post #45
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…

A good friend of mine did what Joe Rogan did: just shave it all off. The funny thing is that they both said the same thing: "I was so worried about how my thinning hair looked that I just decided to shave my head, and havent looked back since" And its funny they both look great completely bald - in fact with Joe Rogan, he looks odd to see old pics of him with hair. I dont know if I could pull off a full bald shave be…

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Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

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Post by [deleted] »

downandout wrote: post #91
pen2l wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Elon Musk is a great example of what is possible with hair transplants. He had severe balding at a very young age, and you would never know it today. I have a feeling that public perception of him would be quite a bit different if he still looked like his old self. Here is a before and after...the “before” image was taken in 2002: https://pagesix-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/pagesix.com/wp-co...

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