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Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery

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Re: Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery

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Post by Seanambers »

worstspotgain wrote: post #72

> Findings from the study show that the deoxy ribose sugar is as effective at regrowing hair as Minoxidil - an existing drug used to treat hair loss Minoxidil is barely effective, especially for something that became widely available. It got approved in the 80s as a topical version of a hypertension drug, and IIRC the McStudy that supported it was funded by the original patent holder. I don't think anyone had much of…

As someone who started to loose his hair in the mid 20s and thinning until I buzzed it in my mid 30s. I will say that being bald sucks especially considering meeting people, sexual attraction and possibly your own perception of yourself. Having said that I don't think about it at all normally, but I'm not gonna pretend it doesn't matter.

Loads of people take the 'high road' and say it doesn't matter but having hair is such an level up that its ridiculous. Maybe more now in a digital age with Snapchat, tiktok, youtube, tinder than before - looks have become way more important.

Here's an example of balding vs hair and there are loads of such examples on the web; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72wf4NLglOY

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Post by Moldoteck »

andyroid wrote: post #110
aikinai wrote: post #96

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It’s a funny joke, but debunked by Elon Musk, along with a lot of other celebrities and normal people.

Does a hair transplant really count as a cure though? It’s more akin to a pricey baseball cap.

it's hair and it grows so imo it's a cure

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Post by specialist »

I took cyclosporin for a while in my youth. One side effect is increased hair growth. Every where. I looked like a Wookie. I was even shaving my ears. Us patients would lose all our hair (chemo, radiation) and then a few months latter look like plush toys. Pretty wild.

Surely someone has looked into harnessing cyclosporin for baldness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciclosporin

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Post by stavros »

webappguy wrote: post #98
stavros wrote: post #55

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I've had them for seven years now and they seem OK. I also think they were super worth it, best purchase I made after my 3D printer. I look younger now than I did ten years ago, and it only cost $5k.

Where Turkey? What type Did you get, heard horror stories

Thessaloniki, Advanced Hair Clinics. I got FUE, everything was great.

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Post by zwirbl »

ImHereToVote wrote: post #108
woolion wrote: post #79

Since this is related to a 'sugar', I wondered if the (keto) diet could have an impact. The metabolic cycles of deoxyribose are mainly related to DNA metabolic pathways, which isn't really related that is the glucose/insulin metabolism. In particular, these DNA pathways are very reliant on nutrient and vitamins (folic acid, B6, B12, ...), , so that is the first thing to take into account in the diet. But further than…

There is a big difference between "sugar" and "a sugar".

same with "alcohol" and "an alcohol"

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Post by llm_trw »

wasmitnetzen wrote: post #65
pqs wrote: post #48

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Years to cope? I fully accepted it, as my father and my grand father. Fighting against nature seems pointless to me.

Fighting against nature is sort of the main activity of humans. Also, don't project your own experience on others.

I have better things to fight against than hair loss.

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Post by rubslopes »

senectus1 wrote: post #80
goestoo wrote: post #14

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I'm sick of these people telling others people just accept it and shave it up. Most people look better with hair, losing your hair is a drastic change, for most people it takes years to cope with it and if someone want to go to treatment it's ok.

I've always held the position that the further back my hair recedes the shorter i will cut it. what I discovered was, this means I spend MORE on haircuts. because shorter haircuts require more frequent haircuts to maintain their neat look. I'm pretty much at a point now that I'm just going to buy one of those head shavers to run over my head every morning. If it can work for Picard i can make it work for me.

I agree. The more the balding, worse a longer hair looks.

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Post by ImHereToVote »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #76
ImHereToVote wrote: post #38

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I wonder what the cancer rates are for people mixing up hormones like that?

I think estrogen increases my risk of breast cancer to that of a cis woman, but decreases some chances of testosterone related cancers. I really don't know much about this, but in general it seemed like I did not particularly have increased risks.

I hope it turns out well for you.

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Post by lollollllllllol »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #104
seethedeaduu wrote: post #91

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"High" E dosages enough to knock down your T are not that high at all. Also fin won't reduce your T, it might actually increase it, and by using fin instead of duta you still produce dht. Chances are you are still irreversiblly masculinizing if you are on a low dosage of E (including oral). Please consider an actual T blocker, and consider a suitable medication to help with erections.

Im not on a low dose, I take 8mg oral estradiol per day. It’s just not a particularly high dose, just the highest my doctor is comfortable giving someone orally. I don’t care about the testosterone in my system I only want to stop hair loss (I’m very genderfucked non-binary). It was my doctor from the UCSF Transgender Care center that suggested finasteride may have effects similar to that of reducing T (specifically…

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Re: Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Gud wrote: post #92
TeMPOraL wrote: post #44

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It's who came to my mind first. Also, there's this gem: At a press conference about Star Trek: The Next Generation, a reporter asked Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry about casting Patrick Stewart, commenting that "Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness." Gene Roddenberry had the perfect response. "No, by the 24th century, no one will care." (Via https://boingboing.net/201…

Which is absolutely bullshit. You’re not going to change millions of years of evolution by going to star fleet academy. I’m bald and although I’m blessed with a great skull shape, and being blonde haired also works to my advantage, I would lie if I said I wouldn’t be more attractive with hair.

> Which is absolutely bullshit. You’re not going to change millions of years of evolution by going to star fleet academy.

The very premise of the show is that humans found a way to mostly move past the worst parts of their nature. Not just in Starfleet, but in general.

At least wrt. outside differences, I suppose it gets easier in a world full of "human with rubber forehead"-looking aliens.

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