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I did one in Thessaloniki, Greece eight years ago. Here's a photo album of me before, during, after, and recently: https://immich.home.stavros.io/s/transplant
Is your hair thinning again, or is it just the angle between the last two pics?
It is a huge unspoken reality how much one's physical appearance affects the way they are treated, their life outcomes, and ultimate success in social/romantic relationships. Hair transplants, leg lengthening, plastic surgery, etc. will all explode over the next decade as AI erodes humans' ability to be successful via their industry and intellect.
> as AI erodes humans' ability
Lol here we go again.
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> Plastic surgery is obvious Survivorship bias, you only notice the plastic surgery that isn't good. Most of the time it's invisible, your brain doesn't process the individual change, you just get the sense that the person looks better/less tired/more put together. >Lip injections are obvious Same phenomenon, but even if they are obvious some people like that aesthetic, in the same way that dyed hair/painted nails ar…
Everyone looks great if they live healthily and groom themselves. No one is actually an ugly duckling. >If we all die after 80 or so years then what's the point of doing anything? Why get a job, why put any effort into personal grooming? Because you want to be fit and healthy? All these surgeries are orthogonal to that. Every surgery is risky even medically necessary ones. You shower and groom yourself to prevent ski…
Not true for everyone. Simply living healthily and grooming, you are still limited by the ceiling imposed by your body. Sometimes it just doesn't live up to the aesthetic demands of the human psyche, used to a superstimulus of attractiveness as the norm.
>Every surgery is risky even medically necessary ones
Most cosmetic surgeries carry very little risk, your overall risk from even being a moderate drinker, commuting to work in a car, being mildly overweight are far higher in aggregate.
My main point is, the human modern social world isn't a perfect arbiter of reward based on whether you are doing all the "right things", by being generally healthy.
Sometimes people get a disease, like cancer, and nothing our body evolved to do can help, but human-invented therapies can actually help. Likewise, you can be perfectly healthy and nevertheless start balding, and no amount of generally being healthy is going to fix it, and no amount of generally being healthy will mitigate the minor albeit real social cost of it.
It is a huge unspoken reality how much one's physical appearance affects the way they are treated, their life outcomes, and ultimate success in social/romantic relationships. Hair transplants, leg lengthening, plastic surgery, etc. will all explode over the next decade as AI erodes humans' ability to be successful via their industry and intellect.
The irony is that none of this stuff actually works as intended. Plastic surgery is obvious. Lip injections are obvious. Leg lengthening, I mean have you seen the proportions after?? Hair transplants too. If the most wealthy people getting these procedures look botched, what hope does anyone have really. Also, are we acting like steve jobs wasn't still a handsome man with his grey thinning head? It doesn't come from…
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Everyone looks great if they live healthily and groom themselves. No one is actually an ugly duckling. >If we all die after 80 or so years then what's the point of doing anything? Why get a job, why put any effort into personal grooming? Because you want to be fit and healthy? All these surgeries are orthogonal to that. Every surgery is risky even medically necessary ones. You shower and groom yourself to prevent ski…
> Everyone looks great if they live healthily and groom themselves. Not true for everyone. Simply living healthily and grooming, you are still limited by the ceiling imposed by your body. Sometimes it just doesn't live up to the aesthetic demands of the human psyche, used to a superstimulus of attractiveness as the norm. >Every surgery is risky even medically necessary ones Most cosmetic surgeries carry very little r…
Wayne Rooney lost his strength, motivation and creativity directly after his hair transplant. Some speculate the pills you need to take forever afterwards mess up your hormones. It's not worth it just to look good for women and "impressing" other people. His body turned into a fat womens body.
Why is "turkey" lowercased? For that matter the country's official name is Türkiye as of 2022.
I don't understand how can you trust these foreigners-oriented clinics in counties with otherwise miserable healthcare. These clinics are not an exception from dysfunctional healthcare system, they are the very result and fruit of it.
Turkey has reasonably good health care by any metric, what are you talking about?
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Do you have to take any medications/follow-ups forever to keep it in place or is a one and done kind of procedure?
No medications or follow ups required. The transplanted hair follicles are harvested from a region of the scalp (the donor area) that is genetically immune to hair loss, meaning they are permanent. However, you will continue to lose the non-transplanted native hair around them as baldness progresses. So some people choose to take finasteride and/or minoxidil to maintain their existing hair (I personally don't).
I think the finasteride side effects sound too much for me to handle.
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this is one of those "if you have nothing nice to say" moments. there's really no reason for your comment.
I don't think so. I had a transplant and I'd like being told I look better bald. I can always shave my head. "You looked better with hair" when you've gone bald is the hurtful one.