I think they already have treatment options but when I look at the side effects, well I'd rather not gamble with erectile disfunction.
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We can land men on the moon but have yet to cure hair loss
- Thread starter hwarang
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...and then the hair turned sentient and started brainwashing its host, slowly transforming him into the supervillain known as...SADDAM HUSSEIN!We have the cure for hair loss
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Never heard of this. Does it work? (edit: it supposedly has bad side effects?)
Also, I've recently discovered Toppik (after seeing a commercial for it). I'm not bald "yet" but my hair is thinning. Don't think I'll ever go completely bald; it's starting to look like my dad's hair, and he never went completely bald....just pretty thin on the top.
Anyway, Toppik works like magic. I don't know how they do it, but it manages to do an incredible job covering up thin spots.
The company that cures hairloss will be trillionaires.
I'd buy it at whatever fucking price they want. I'm desperate.
I'd buy it at whatever fucking price they want. I'm desperate.
So not only you are supposed to do something that is harder than landing on the moon but it needs to be side-effectless?
Not even landing on the moon has zero side effects =P
Yeah, that's what happened to me. Doc wouldn't go for the 5mg stuff
I take Finastride. It works for me, I was losing my hair when I hit 30 just like my dad. Started taking Finastride and a year later I have a full head of hair and no bald spots.
When you get old you stop caring. Like, it would have to be $20 for the whole treatment for me to even bother trying.
All it would bring me is the return of barber shop visit costs.
judging by my dad's hair I probably have baldness in the post at some point but ya know... I'll just shave it and if it looks like shit i'll look into transplants or whatever, there's more important shit for scientists to work on.
If I had a wife and kids, then I'd probably agree. But I'm single and relatively young. Some extra hair would be nice, in the same way being in shape would be nice, straight teeth would be nice, being tall would be nice, etc.
I mean, if it's genetic, it would require genetic editing to really fix it...
Would you edit your genes just to grow s little more hair? Seems like a poor risk/reward ratio...
Laser hair removal.
I'm 30 with no signs of balding, and my father has a full head of hair too. I guess I still can't say I'm safe, though, and I reckon I'd struggle to accept baldness if it comes to that :( But in the end, even if I do love my hair, it's not really such an important thing.
Aside from everything else, we can't currently land men on the moon.
We could, if we tried, but as of today no nation state or private enterprise has that capability.
We could, if we tried, but as of today no nation state or private enterprise has that capability.
Male pattern baldness is carried on the X chromosome. So, you'd need to find out about your mothersm dad and your maternal grandmother's dad to really rule it out.
Flying people to the moon = engineering and money feat (the fundamental science is complete and based on classic principles which have been around for centuries). Curing baldness = fundamental science problem.
It took humanity, in a way, thousands of years to discover, interpret, and report classic kinematics (rocket science). You could argue the ancient Greeks did a lot of the legwork but nonetheless we needed Newton's laws. We are working on figuring out the fundamental science of biological systems, but it largely remains unexplored at a deep level so far. That's why we still get modern monumental discoveries like CRISPR Cas9.
Also it's a sociological problem. Getting funding from government agencies is easier if you are working on immediate and important problems for society. Curing baldness has monetary value, so it's better left to private industry, but they have problems with working on fundamental R&D because of the corporate level not understanding science. If the NIH made it a priority, and it wasn't taboo, then many research groups would get funding and encouraged to solve it - and it would probably be done in 5-10 years.
It took humanity, in a way, thousands of years to discover, interpret, and report classic kinematics (rocket science). You could argue the ancient Greeks did a lot of the legwork but nonetheless we needed Newton's laws. We are working on figuring out the fundamental science of biological systems, but it largely remains unexplored at a deep level so far. That's why we still get modern monumental discoveries like CRISPR Cas9.
Also it's a sociological problem. Getting funding from government agencies is easier if you are working on immediate and important problems for society. Curing baldness has monetary value, so it's better left to private industry, but they have problems with working on fundamental R&D because of the corporate level not understanding science. If the NIH made it a priority, and it wasn't taboo, then many research groups would get funding and encouraged to solve it - and it would probably be done in 5-10 years.
My hair loss doesn't really bother me too much. It's far enough back on my head that I can't see it in a mirror and I forget I have it most of the time.
I understand of course that this doesn't apply to everyone.
I understand of course that this doesn't apply to everyone.
Loads of celebrities are bald or wearing toupees of some sort or whatever. There is no solution worth bothering with. Getting a cure for other things is a better idea.
It probably sucks when you are in the between stage and aren't going really bald but have a patch on the back of you head or going slowly at the front or both. It must be weird and quite the leap to go from semi decent hair to the shaved look. There is nothing worse than seeing a guy holding onto their hair like a comb over or whatever but I feel for guys who are bald a lot slower.
It probably sucks when you are in the between stage and aren't going really bald but have a patch on the back of you head or going slowly at the front or both. It must be weird and quite the leap to go from semi decent hair to the shaved look. There is nothing worse than seeing a guy holding onto their hair like a comb over or whatever but I feel for guys who are bald a lot slower.
I know my mother's dad didn't go bald at the very least. It's not looking bad, I guess! But again, I'd rather not convince myself that it'll never happen.
My mother's brothers didn't go bald either :)
The guys on my mother's side of the family all have thick hair. But Im having thinning hair on top. Will be time for a hat soon.
If Lebron can't save his hair, neither can you. Pretty sure Eminem is wearing a hair piece. You need to embrace it like Joe Budden.
Saying the sexual side effects are fairly common is a form of the same misconceptions you made this post about. Every study done has shown the prevalence of permanent side effects is very low and in line with any other drug.
I heard you can get these Propecia side effects...
Depression/suicide thoughts....scares me
What about building muscles? I heard you can get bitch tits out of it or something like that
Depression/suicide thoughts....scares me
What about building muscles? I heard you can get bitch tits out of it or something like that
What about differences in 'lifestyle' between you two? If you dont mind answering...
It probably doesn't help that we had for ties hair loss products and testosterone to the same people
A "cure" for hair loss would be pretty near a cure for aging in general. One of those things is inherently more complicated than the other. Remember, from a biologists perspective we discover more and more mechanisms of how the human body and life in general works every decade. Some time ago we didn't know about miRNA AT ALL, and we thought exosomes were just trash. Now, the current ISEV meeting sports over 1000 attendants, there were I think two to three hundred of them when I started my PhD thesis.
We are still learning, and we will do so for hundreds of years.
I've gotta say I'm so glad I don't have baldness in my family. I'd look so bad bald and it seems like a thick head of hair is pretty sought after for guys 30+ these days.
So thanks to genetics I'll have a full head of hair up until those same genetics riddle my body with cancer and I lose my hair to chemo.
So thanks to genetics I'll have a full head of hair up until those same genetics riddle my body with cancer and I lose my hair to chemo.
I figure gene therapy would work, as it can cure hereditary blindness and even treat parkinson's. But I'm not sure if it'll reverse the process. Might be too late for us.
He's 1 year older than me. He has exactly my dads pattern, full head of hair with few greys showing. While I have no greys but instead balding on sides...
I dont know, I feel like he lives a more stressful life than me but Ive been dealing with depression. I take happy pills...
I doubt this causes baldness to such a degree? I think I just got the bad coin...moms side
It is not medically possible for you to be at a caloric surplus without eventually gaining weight.
You're not eating as much as you think you are. Count your calories.
Biology is complicated.
-bald scientist
Also.
Personal advice. Don't try rogaine or propecia. Not worth it.
-bald scientist
Also.
Personal advice. Don't try rogaine or propecia. Not worth it.
Every uncle and grandparent on my mom's side has a full head of hair, where mine is receding. I lost the genetic lottery on my mom's side. My dad had the full crescent moon by my age though so lucked out there.
This should tell you something about how complex cells and cellular mechanisms are.
SPOILERS: Very.
We could go into a long conversation about how (e.g. how complex DNA is, how many receptors, enzymes, proteins, neurotransmitters there are, etc) but it suffices to say that living cells are extraordinarily complex.