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How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by OkayPhysicist »

randunel wrote: post #66
laszlojamf wrote: post #31

The title just goes to show that 1. the turkish government had reasons for trying to get people to use "Türkiye" instead. 2. It's still not working. I 100% thought this was about birds until clicking

Shouldn't you spell it Tuerkiyesh government, then?

Turkish isn't pronounced "Turkey-ish". It's just "turk-ish" as in, "of or relating to the ethnic group the 'Turks'". "Turkiyesh" (Turkish is perfectly phonetic, they don't play games with vowels combining to make all sorts of sounds like English) would be a different thing, being of or related to the country Turkiye.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by __turbobrew__ »

endemic wrote: post #76
__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?

If it makes someone feel better about themselves, why not?

The question is why do people feel bad about themselves? Everyone gets old, it is part of life. Why can we not accept that?

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by gacgacgac »

endemic wrote: post #76
__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?

If it makes someone feel better about themselves, why not?

Right? Everyone should have access to gender affirming care. Obviously, we should also try to socially change to remove the negative pressures that contribute to dysphoria.

If it makes someone feel happier to not be bald, great. It should come from making them happy, not them having to avoid social stigma though.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by gacgacgac »

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #82
endemic wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it makes someone feel better about themselves, why not?

The question is why do people feel bad about themselves? Everyone gets old, it is part of life. Why can we not accept that?

It's not necessarily feeling bad. It might be something makes one feel better.

I'm not unhappy with how I look. I'm happier after a haircut and a hot shave. Sometimes we make choices because they take us from "whatever" to "this rules".

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by triceratops »

randomtoast wrote: post #85
triceratops wrote: post #83

Why is "turkey" lowercased? For that matter the country's official name is Türkiye as of 2022.

Let's talk turkey, does it really matter?

Does anything matter? If there are things that matter, grammar is one of those things.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by embedding-shape »

sonic45132 wrote: post #80
embedding-shape wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But all these people in Turkey walking around with their brand new hair follicles, aren't those from other people? Or from the same person, just elsewhere?

They take your existing hair follicles from areas that aren't thinning and move them to the thinning or bald area.

So in theory if I want less head-hair and more chest-hair, I could in theory do this by moving the hair follicles? Interesting stuff.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by Tangurena2 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #62
ratg13 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't donate hair follicles .. it has to come from your own body

But all these people in Turkey walking around with their brand new hair follicles, aren't those from other people? Or from the same person, just elsewhere?

The follicles come from the back of your head. Feel your head, there's an area where the skull and vertebrae meet. Place your hand over that area. That's the "donor" area. Follicles on the front of your scalp are sensitive to DHT (what your body metabolizes testosterone into) for many humans. This is where male pattern baldness happens.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by olalonde »

__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?

Unless you happen to be one of the lucky few who look better bald, balding makes you less conventionally attractive (there are actual studies about this). Whether that matters depends on how much weight you place on being conventionally attractive.
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