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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 atum47 »

ryanianian wrote: post #188
atum47 wrote: post #186

I recently went through a hair transplant. I'm not completely bald, but my hair was thinning each passing day. I was shaving my head, but when I got the opportunity to do the surgery, I took the shot. I'm on my third month and already have some results, but after the 7th month is when I really should start seeing the difference.

Will you have to get "touch-ups" in a few years after more of the original hairline recedes?

I really don't know. But the transplanted hair don't have the testosterone receptor, which prevent them from falling (I'm parafrasing my doctor here). I guess I'll have to wait and see.

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Post by ildon »

jlos wrote: post #134

It's always a sad to read the comment section when discussing male attractiveness; so many people with learned helplessness. Being attractive is 3 traits: physical fitness, grooming, and sociability. The first two are easy 1. Find a sport and hit the gym. There is a sport out there you will enjoy (racket sports, team sports, martial arts, running, rock climbing). As a creature, you are meant to be active and without…

Mmm no. A friend of mine is a male model and the fact that he is very good looking makes all the difference in the world.

Where I can agree is that a man can make up for a lack of attractiveness with other things. But being super attractive is simply a huge advantage, that cannot always be compensated with other qualities.

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Post by ghego1 »

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…

Tot best knowledge, you can actually pay to have pearl white teeth. It's a quite basic procedure, costly, but doable.

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Post by jlos »

hedgehawk wrote: post #159
jlos wrote: post #136

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>> Not to mention my confidence has gone straight down the strain and I find it hard to focus on other aspects of my life like my work and hobbies. I'm going to suggest your loss of confidence is not an affect but likely the cause. Your emotional strife and lack of confidence will project in your body language. >> chances are you are an outlier if you were dealt a garbage genetic hand like me Do you think your geneti…

I don't think my loss of confidence is the cause.. I was more than confident (if anything overly confident) before I was losing my hair. I'm not sure if you are also dealing with hair loss but it's hard for me to converse with people who simply aren't going through what I am experiencing. And I'm able to shield my emotional strife and lack of confidence for the time being with hair fibers so it hasn't affected my bod…

I started shaving my head this year (though I'm a few years older than you). I've gotten a few thoughtless comments from people too.

Just to clarify I didn't say 'just' hit the gym; I said that was the easy part. Doing the internal work to get to the point where you are confident because you feel you are a person who has value to offer to the world around you is challenging.

And I guarantee you have more to offer than your hair. And when you know that you have a lot to offer, you'll communicate that to the people around you and its attractive. Lots of guys will say "I have lots to offer" and give a list of good qualities. But how many guys really feel that way? If you are feeling bitter and insecure because your bald, would that maybe indicate you don't really believe you're valuable? I'm not criticizing you for feeling that way, but asking if those feelings are indicative that maybe your view of yourself isn't healthy?

Shaving my head this year didn't bother me because I've done a lot of work to deal with the other insecurities that held me back from seeing the value I bring to the world. In fact, shaving has actually made me feel more confident. It's almost like a taunt: I'm so badass I don't even need hair. But again, getting to that place emotionally was a lot harder than going to the gym.

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Post by pirate787 »

airhead969 wrote: post #4

Can we get a cure for graying hair too (restore melanocyte function)? ;) Btw, dry ice can be used to make patches of hair permanently white (selectively kills melanocytes).

Yeah entering middle age with white hair adds ten years of age.

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Post by SenHeng »

x86_64Ubuntu wrote: post #148
decafninja wrote: post #13

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I think there are cultural (racial?) aspects too. I'm East Asian. Hair loss at a young age and shaving your head is still not considered very acceptable or attractive in any way in East Asian cultures, short of being a monk. There are a tiny handful of exceptions - but that's just that - exceptions. If you're pushing 50? 60? etc. sure it happens to many so not a big deal - but even then I think more East Asian men ch…

I never thought of this till you mentioned it, like, never. But you are right, I can't think of any high-visibility East Asian person with a bald head that isn't a monk. Xi Jianping, Mao, Psy, Jack Ma and pretty much every prominent East-Asian has hair. I guess with me coming from the black community, we've always had Michael Jordan, Isaac Hayes and Samuel L. Jackson as the standard-bearers of baldness.

Watanabe Ken, while not fully bald, has shaved a few times before for some of his roles. He also tends to sport really short hair.

https://www.google.com/search?q=watanabe+ken&client=safari&r...

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Post by m-p-3 »

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

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> 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…

He does look tired and sickly on his younger picture, that doesn't help either.

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Post by agumonkey »

throwawayboise wrote: post #180
agumonkey wrote: post #54

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I vaguely knew a dude who got bald at 20. Beside the slightly strange feeling in the early days it really never made a difference in how we were with him. But he was a cool guy so that helped.

I knew a guy who was losing his hair in high school. He always had girls around.

Everyone has a budget.

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Post by bitbuilder »

badfaceshape wrote: post #200
bitbuilder wrote: post #194

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>I would have killed to know that that wasn't the case. Same. It's actually pretty important information to know at that age, as it'll help prevent you from settling into a LTR with someone that you're not compatible with, because "I'll never do any better." I was most recently single at 43, and my dating prospects were pretty great compared to what I experienced at 22. If 22 year old had been able to foresee that, I…

I am glad for you. This is maybe cold comfort for young people, unfortunately. Most prefer to settle down much before then or at least date first. Nobody wants to become the 40 year old virgin irl.

Thanks! And solid point.

But to be clear, there was certainly a wide spectrum of relationships between 22 and 43. For better or for worse.

If I had to pick an age to tell my younger self to hold out for, it would probably be the early to mid 30s. That seems to be when I, and other guys I know, stopped being idiots and started taking care of ourselves. And in the process gained some self esteem and confidence.

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