How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry • Hacker News Board

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by olalonde » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:34 PM UTC

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wrote: post #201

olalonde wrote: post #187

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It's possible, but finasteride doesn't cause weight gain or muscle loss. In fact, it slightly increases free testosterone due to less of it being converted to DHT. He probably just got older and became less active.

Excess testosterone can be converted to estrogen.

Yes, finasteride can cause a very slight estrogen increase (~15%) but nothing like bodybuilders who inject anabolic steroids for example (3x-5x+ increase). It's similar to the estrogen bump from gaining 10-15 pounds of fat. In any case, it doesn't cause weight gain or muscle loss.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:41 PM UTC

fapi1974 wrote: post #210

What I think is surprising about this article is that I would expect the top HN comment to call out that it's an advertorial for the Turkish hair replacement industry. It's like something you'd usually find on the Yahoo News page - the only reason it seems to have survived on the front page of HN is because it's in Wired and it's got the word hack used inappropriately in both title and body. If I can't rely on HN to…

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Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by suddenlybananas » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:58 PM UTC

gacgacgac wrote: post #202

suddenlybananas wrote: post #194

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I will call them Turkiye when they call Greece Hellas, Germany Deutschland and China Zhongguo in Turkish.

Have those countries made those requests?

You and I both know that Turkey would never do such a thing.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by macintux » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:07 PM UTC

macintux wrote: post #116

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #67

Why are so many people brainwashed to think baldness==bad? My hair really started to go down around 30 years old and am going to have to shave my head at some point, but who cares? Why does it matter?

Speaking as someone who's been shaving for 20 years now, it is bad. More sun exposure, less cold protection. It has benefits too, but it's overall harmful.

I forgot to mention: a thick head of hair is useful for safety as well. I've had a nasty head wound that would have been mostly avoided, and I've certainly bumped my head on multiple occasions where it was much more painful without that buffer.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by suddenlybananas » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:10 PM UTC

patates wrote: post #178

IncreasePosts wrote: post #135

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Is it a right of any nation to assert what other nations call it? Can America ask China to stop calling them 美国 (Měiguó) and call them the USA? The problem with the turkey rebranding is that it was a mere orthographic update, but it is using orthography that is very non standard(whatever that means for English), including using a diacritic rarely seen in English. I could get behind it more if they completely changed…

If you need an example, look at the Peking->Beijing transition.

https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekin Turkish still uses the old term. Why should I change my language to suit them if they won't do it for others.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by suddenlybananas » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:12 PM UTC

gacgacgac wrote: post #202

suddenlybananas wrote: post #194

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I will call them Turkiye when they call Greece Hellas, Germany Deutschland and China Zhongguo in Turkish.

Have those countries made those requests?

https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekin Turkish doesn't seem to respect the wishes of the Chinese government with regard to Beijing.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #69

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

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Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by gherkinnn » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:50 PM UTC

atleastoptimal wrote: post #163

asdff wrote: post #145

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Donald fricking trump is the president of the united states. You don't have to be pretty to get far in life.

An exception isn't the rule. However Donald Trump by NY billionare real estate executive standards is fairly good looking, is very tall and has no major deformities. I doubt Trump would have gotten as far as he did if he were below average height, balding and didn't have expensive veneers.

Marc Andreesen

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by solumunus » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:22 PM UTC

TylerE wrote: post #35

kilroy123 wrote: post #12

So I spent time living in Istanbul a few years ago. It really was wild. In the touristy areas (near where I lived), you really would see loads and loads of bald guys walking around with stitches on their heads. If I were bald, I would totally go there and do the same.

Am I the only one that likes being bald? Hair maintenance has always been a huge drag for me (yea executive dysfunction!) and when I had it I hated it getting in my eyes. I was balding anyway. Started shaving my whole head at the start of COVID and haven't stopped. I love it.

I like it, but then again my hair was never great to begin with. It’s certainly one less thing to think about.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by slipperybeluga » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:54 PM UTC

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