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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 necovek »

seethedeaduu wrote: post #89
necovek wrote: post #52

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Agreed, I find it amazing it's even called a "cure", as if baldness is an illness. Sure, it can cause psychological issues, but so can short height or big nose or what-have-you, and we don't talk about "curing" those (except in some hormonal imbalance cases).

We literally do though? People are interested in surgeries to change their height and noses.

We do surgeries but I've never heard the term "curing your big nose" used. Perhaps those in the industry do, or maybe it simply does not translate between languages.

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Post by ffsm8 »

bob1029 wrote: post #146

Minoxidil is the only thing that ever "worked" for me, but I got tired of the routine very quickly and it wasn't nearly as effective as desired. The real cure is to stop worrying about it and to buzz off whatever remaining hair. You will look and feel 10x better than if you try to patchwork your way through it. Think about the end game - hair loss is probably only going to escalate over time. This is an uphill battle…

Depends on your income, honestly.

Hair transplants are a thing and work pretty well if the person in question has the money available. Several streamers have covered their transplant phase, giving you an insight to their experience over the months.

I personally don't value my hairline to that degree, but it does exist and works well.

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Post by penguin_booze »

bob1029 wrote: post #146

Minoxidil is the only thing that ever "worked" for me, but I got tired of the routine very quickly and it wasn't nearly as effective as desired. The real cure is to stop worrying about it and to buzz off whatever remaining hair. You will look and feel 10x better than if you try to patchwork your way through it. Think about the end game - hair loss is probably only going to escalate over time. This is an uphill battle…

> The real cure is to stop worrying about it and to buzz off whatever remaining hair

That's the Hobson's choice we're left with.

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Post by TeaBrain »

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.

A transplant isn't any more a hat than having natural untransplanted hair is like wearing a hat. A hair piece could be argued to be something akin to a pricey hat, but a transplant is naturally growing hair that has simply been moved from a donor area.

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

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Post by elzbardico »

28304283409234 wrote: post #160
elzbardico wrote: post #21

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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.

Being bald is not an issue. And wasting earthly resources to "fix" it is a waste of those resources, imho.

Well, I am not bald, but I surely can empathize with men (and there are bald women too) whose self-esteem suffered because of baldness.

Despite that, any product that cured baldness would command a sizable market and probably help to subsidize other lines of business not so promising while paying for itself.

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Post by debug-desperado »

birriel wrote: post #148

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...

"Because all of the included participants were from infertile couples, this appears to be a limitation of the study..."

Pretty big limitation, and their discussion really is just there to justify publishing anyway. Both groups, bald and shaggy, may as well have been shooting blanks.

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Post by raydev »

seethedeaduu wrote: post #165
bob1029 wrote: post #146

Minoxidil is the only thing that ever "worked" for me, but I got tired of the routine very quickly and it wasn't nearly as effective as desired. The real cure is to stop worrying about it and to buzz off whatever remaining hair. You will look and feel 10x better than if you try to patchwork your way through it. Think about the end game - hair loss is probably only going to escalate over time. This is an uphill battle…

> hair loss is probably only going to escalate over time Not if you take the right meds. And I can assure you, they are very real.

Show me someone 55 or older with a successful stack and lush head full of hair that isn't due to genetics.

Musk is one of the richest men in the world and he's had multiple transplants, yet is thinning aggressively again.

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

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Post by raydev »

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.

It's very obviously thin/wispy on top if you see photos of him outside interviews.

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

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Post by loco5niner »

Retr0id wrote: post #134
loco5niner wrote: post #131

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It's baked into our nature, not something artificially created by society.

Even if we assume that's true, all sorts of negative things are "in our nature", yet we collectively choose to overcome them.

Signs of health and youthful vigor (full head of hair, nice teeth, being in shape, etc) will always be attractive.

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Post by sofixa »

28304283409234 wrote: post #156
sofixa wrote: post #26

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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.

As a male "suffering" from alopecia areata I know a thing or two about baldness. There are more pressing issues in the world right now. Spending time and energy in fixing baldness for men seems wasteful to me.

You can make that same argument for many things. Why bother with space stuff? Or Antarctica? Or obesity treating drugs?
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