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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 lofaszvanitt »

Seanambers wrote: post #111
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 i…

Bald means proper man.

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

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Post by lossolo »

sumedh wrote: post #94
canucker2016 wrote: post #83

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I remember a female comedian, (perhaps Amy Schumer), joking that when she saw Jeff Bezos, she knew there was no cure for baldness. If a multi-centi-billionaire is bald, then there's no viable baldness cure at any price.

> she knew there was no cure for baldness. Look up Elons photos during balding phase and now.

Elon has good donor area, area from which he had hair transplant. Not everyone have a good donor area and if you are NW7 (north wood scale) then hair transplant will not help you.

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

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Post by lossolo »

Moldoteck wrote: post #112
andyroid wrote: post #110

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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

It only works for some people. You need to have a good donor area and a lot of hair. And even then transplant can be rejected. Doesn't work for majority of bald people in their 30s/40s.

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

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…

Alternatively it might be worth trying sublingual, turning pills into stickies for extended-release direct absorption (https://stickies.neocities.org/stickies though I suspect the author dosed low), or switching/supplementing with other routes of administration (you mentioned injections).

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Post by Gud »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #120
Gud wrote: post #92

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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.

Would be curious to know what that way is, because it’s not exactly made clear in the show.

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Post by tripple6 »

goestoo wrote: post #14
reify wrote: post #3

Oi! Baldy Just accept that it is part of life and of being male. Its because we have testosterone. save yourself a small fortune in hair cuts Buy yourself some decent hair clippers No 1, job done If you want hair on your head grow a beard

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.

Totally agree. Most people DO look better with hair, not bald. Any tool that can visualize a non-bald person bald reveals how the person look may change from good to bad, and a lot of such persons are not that masculine or attractive when they're bald as they or anybody else might think. I could not cope with being bald, and the only thing that really helped me was FUE, nothing else. I'm really lucky to look younger than I might look in my 38, and I still have my hair on top of my head, not underneath being more attractive than having premature balding issues in 25-33.

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

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Post by indigo0086 »

lofaszvanitt wrote: post #121
Seanambers wrote: post #111

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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 i…

Bald means proper man.

The skinner from xfiles is peak manhood

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

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Post by [deleted] »

viking123 wrote: post #101
formerly_proven wrote: post #42

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took 1 pill, pp fell off tl;dr While it can have undesirable side effects, these are long-term. But these side effects make it a powerful nocebo for some people to the point where they almost instantly get side effects (nausea, anxiety, sexual dysfunction), despite that being pharmacologically improbable.

It's mostly nocebo, they read about it online for weeks and then try it, and at that point they are so psyched out that they keep watching for every little thing, effectively making it a self fulfilling prophecy. I started dutasteride when I was 20 and have been on it for many years and it really stops hair loss, because my hair loss was very fast and aggressive.

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

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Post by imtringued »

lossolo wrote: post #123
Moldoteck wrote: post #112

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

It only works for some people. You need to have a good donor area and a lot of hair. And even then transplant can be rejected. Doesn't work for majority of bald people in their 30s/40s.

You are also most likely going to stay on Minoxidil and Finasteride just to stay safe and not lose your "investment". A botched hair transplant can look pretty terrible once you lose the original hair around it.

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

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Post by riahi »

emeril wrote: post #78
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…

Maybe you're 100% right but I remember reading this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/health/minoxidil-hair-los... It seems to suggest that oral minoxidil can be at least moderately effective I suspect the only reason we don't hear about this more is that the patent expired and most docs only know what is marketed to them by drug reps

It’s because oral minoxidil requires a ramp period and some people can become symptomatic. If you browse Reddit or other forum threads about it, look for a discussion on “sides”.

There are several papers in the dermatology literature suggesting low dose oral minoxidil for hair loss. I think dermatologists or hair surgeons who do this every day will know the literature. The average pcp likely won’t unless asked.

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