We can land men on the moon but have yet to cure hair loss
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Rogaine and Finasteride both work to varying degrees, and hair transplantation is pretty much a done deal - although it's expensive.
You're already living in the future OP
You're already living in the future OP
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Look dude if space exploration can give the Fantastic Four super powers, it can give balding men hair.
Well, we know what causes MPB and how to prevent it, the issue is that once the follicle is dead, its dead. There's no bringing it back. But Finasteride and Duasteride already do a very good job of suppressing DHT, the issue is most people aren't proactive about hair loss and don't start a preventative routine until it's too late. If the men in either side of your family have a history of MPB, you should be staring Fin at age 18 regardless if you've yet to experience any recession or not.
There is a theory that it may be related to skull expansion. I don't know if it's kookey.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18789604
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18789604
Isn't it already possible, just ridiculously expensive? Hair transplants; Elon Musk, Tobias Fünke, etc
The follicle might be gone, but we could always make a new one. We can lab-grow meat! Let's get that ball rolling. Not there yet, but maybe someday.
https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-culture-first-lab-grown-skin-tissue-with-hair-follicles/
Yeah, rich transplants look relatively normal.
SUPER expensive to get a good one. Pretty sure the actor for Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory) got one, possibly John Travolta, and definitely Jason Alexander (which is funny because there was a whole Seinfeld episode about George with a wig)
Maybe this is the one topic where scientists have sat out trying to fix and they'd rather people develop self-esteem and a positive body image so they can focus on more important things :P
Nah but for real, isn't it a testosterone:estrogen imbalance, down to your thyroid?
Nah but for real, isn't it a testosterone:estrogen imbalance, down to your thyroid?
Finasteride for hair loss is extremely expensive, which is probably part of the reason why no progress has been made in a long time. Pharma knows they can get dudes to pay a shitload of money over and over and over again, whereas a one-time treatment is a one-time payment.
The irony? Higher doses of finasteride are significantly less expensive.
The irony? Higher doses of finasteride are significantly less expensive.
what year should we have had hair loss cured by? Why that year? What scientific progress was made leading up to that year that we should have had it by?
it's 2018, and people are still saying it's 2018
it's 2018, and people are still saying it's 2018
You can get a month's supply of 5 mg (which is a super higher dose for treating mpb) Finasteride for like $30
https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/p-2081-prosteride-finasteride-5mg.aspx
Cut the pills in half and it comes out to like $15 a month.
Yeah, that's basically what I do. I split the 5mg pills into 1/5th quadrants and take those daily.
I get mine from Walmart for around 45 bucks. So basically around 520 a year to avoid going bald.
Success of projects in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry is measured in the 10-20% range (and that's optimistic).
Rocket-based missions have a much higher success rate, taken over the lifetime of space exploration.
Biology is really hard.
Yep. I used to see a dermatologist for my hair back when I was a more frequent actor than I am now, and he kept trying to write me prescriptions for 1mg finasteride. It was like $300 a goddamn bottle. The 5mg trick is so much more manageable.
Speaking of which, nothing is more ironic than a bald dermatologist trying to argue that hair loss isn't something to worry about.
CRISPR has really great promise, but it is still just a tool. A much more precise tool than gene editing tools that have been around for many years (gene editing existed before CRISPR), but still a tool nonetheless.
The problem still is that you need to understand how to use the tool. And until we fully understand all of the underlying genetic relationships that explain a disease condition, CRISPR will be inneffective.
It should make (and is making) discovery work much easier - but it still just a tool at the end of the day. We need to know how to apply that tool.
All jokes aside, this is really something that needs to be fixed, damnit. I would take out loans and pay everything I could if I KNEW the treatment would give me a full thick head of hair again.
Like it or not, men are viewed negatively or positively by their hair. Sure some dudes look fine and are accepted as being bald, but they usually have awesome personalities to back it up. For the rest of us, we need that hair to help us!
Like it or not, men are viewed negatively or positively by their hair. Sure some dudes look fine and are accepted as being bald, but they usually have awesome personalities to back it up. For the rest of us, we need that hair to help us!
I tried rubbing rocket fuel on my head and my hair is still falling out, I don't think rocket science is going to solve this problem.
Hair loss runs in my family for both men and women, and I want an answer to this question. Like come on capitalism, do the damn thing.
That's kind of a risky decision considering some experience permanent side effects.
We haven't solved allowing everyone to grow a kickass beard yet either.
Nor can everyone actually get ripped. Lots of people don't have the genetics for that kind of build.
Compared to most medical problems (spinal cord injuries, diabetes, heart failure, etcc), baldness is one we actually have some treatments for, at least if you have the money....you can do pretty well with a hair transplant from a skilled surgeon.