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A cure for baldness is one of those holy grail drugs like a drug to treat obesity, or a drug to de-age your skin. The profit on this is potentially vast and Im assuming the 10 year patent limit wont apply to it.
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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. 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.
Basically we had to hit our lowest point before we could get better.
> 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…
[1] https://www.monstersandcritics.com/celebrity/farruko-in-fake...
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".
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Everyone that looks good bald has otherwise ridiculously strong features. Ignore the movie characters for a moment
There is a lot of truth to this comic: https://imgur.com/J3FHs7J
I've got freckles; they really work the same way. Got bullied for them all through childhood. Hot girls with freckles are hot and people love their freckles. Drab girls with freckles get picked on and their freckles are gross. In adulthood, nobody's picking on me for having freckles, but I hear how other adults talk about their attraction to other people. Fortunately I'm firmly middle aged so my prospects tend to be less focused on appearances by definition.
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Women don't go bald in anything close to the same rates, and for their small numbers there are options (wigs are totally normal). For a man, it's just "deal with it and shave it), or go in shame to a clinic to get an operation. What's the issue with trying to fix male boldness? It's not like we have a finite capacity of one medical issue at a time.
There are more pressing issues in the world right now. Spending time and energy in fixing baldness for men seems wasteful to me.
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Image is really a lot more important than conventional wisdom would say it is (and people would hope, since judging people subconsciously on appearance isn't very fair), and a lot of people get a long way based mostly on image. People who are perceived as more attractive really are treated better for no real reason apart from that, and there are negative stereotypes associated with baldness. In fiction there are tons…
My appearance is carefully refined to disappoint and frustrate people who expect me to care about my appearance. This optimizes for my time, and connection with people who are more interested in what I say and do. Oh, and low carbon footprint. I have male pattern baldness, long hair (ends unceremoniously chopped once a month for easier brushing) and silly facial hair shaved once a week. Random t-shirts, thrift shop j…
You seem to care about your appearance a lot, and also seem to be putting a lot of effort into cultivating a particular image. There used to be a lot of punk rockers in high school who "didn't care about fashion" but somehow all dressed exactly alike and had very similar haircuts.
Those encouraging folks to "just shave it off" fail to realize that it's so much more than a vanity issue. From an evolutionary standpoint, baldness is perceived in the female brain as a sign of poor sperm quality [0]. [0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S102781171...
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Yeah. Anything being done to solve man’s issue is evil. No matter how much we gear the world towards favoring woman in school, academia, politics and work place, we have to insist we still are basically Saudi Arabia.