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Scientists Successfully Grow Full Head of Hair On Bald Man
realized writes: "A man with almost no hair on his body has grown a full head of it after a novel treatment by doctors at Yale University. The patient had previously been diagnosed with both alopecia universalis, a disease that results in loss of all body hair, and plaque psoriasis, a condition characterized by scaly red areas of skin. The only hair on his body was within the psoriasis plaques on his head. He was referred to Yale Dermatology for treatment of the psoriasis. The alopecia universalis had never been treated.
After two months on tofacitinib [an FDA-approved arthritis drug] at 10 mg daily, the patient's psoriasis showed some improvement, and the man had grown scalp and facial hair — the first hair he'd grown there in seven years. After three more months of therapy at 15 mg daily, the patient had completely regrown scalp hair and also had clearly visible eyebrows, eyelashes, and facial hair, as well as armpit and other hair, the doctors said."
After two months on tofacitinib [an FDA-approved arthritis drug] at 10 mg daily, the patient's psoriasis showed some improvement, and the man had grown scalp and facial hair — the first hair he'd grown there in seven years. After three more months of therapy at 15 mg daily, the patient had completely regrown scalp hair and also had clearly visible eyebrows, eyelashes, and facial hair, as well as armpit and other hair, the doctors said."
"Scientists Accidentally Grow Full Head of Hair On Bald Man"
The result was unintended, though interesting.
I mean, that's obvious, but just in case anyone is too hopeful.
Maybe now I can throw away all those baseball caps that make me look silly... ;-)
Here.
(What the article doesn't explain is why a science article needs a title involving an unnecessary metaphor and a colon: "Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Oral Tofacitinib Reverses Alopecia Universalis in a Patient with Plaque Psoriasis.")
That "armpit and other hair" can be a problem.
I might be inclined to just do without. But I could probably do without psoriasis too.
Good lord. I know some people will find any asnine thing to complain about in the name of the environment, but seriously? The computer/device you are on to make that post caused large amounts of pollution. Perhaps you should give that up and go live in a cave with nature.
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Don't anti-androgens work like Finasteride, Spironolactone, cyproterone and dutasteride work on that?
The drug costs $2055 a month for a 10 mg per day dose. It's a universal anti-lymphocite agent which basically induces a state similar to AIDS, by killing off lymphocytes and leaving the door open for serious infections or diseases, so not exactly safe either.
How much carbon dioxide do you exhale, CR? Stop that right now! Your insane obsession with the environment is taking its toll on the rest of us.
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Table-ized A.I.
How can you afford NOT to be taking this drug?
People who had hair and lost it are likely to consume more resources as measured by the effort they put into trying to compensate for it (buying lots of products which don't work, marginal medical therapies, extra car trips in search of remedies, etc) than they would consume just maintaining good hygiene on hair that grew back reliably.
And even people who go bald and don't care often only have partial baldness and would consume styling products anyway, even if they used less of them due to less hair.
Lack of head cover can cause skin cancer. Knitting wool hats can increase demand for sheep. Sheep farts are also bad for the environment. I'm not sure if the impact on carbon for premature mortality is offset by the sheep farts.
Alopecia universalis is a rare autoimmune disorder, and it's understandable that a drug that works on a pathway to alleviate arthritis could also work for it. The more common male pattern baldness is caused by the sensitivity of certain hair follicles to androgens, specifically testosterone and its more active form dihydrotestosterone. It's unknown why some hair follicles respond to it by growing hair(think chest hair) and others miniaturize until the hair is nearly invisible(think hairline and top of the head).
Letting us know that the boys are now insulated is no big deal, but the description of the ear and back hair was particularly disgusting.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
No more merkin!
Others have said it too, but this guy isn't "bald", he has an autoimmune system that attacks his hair follicles.
Definition of "bald": "having a scalp wholly or partly lacking hair."
This guy lacked: eyebrows, eyelashes, facial hair, body hair, pubic hair, and all head hair.
The treatment fixed it all, because it was autoimmune in nature.
This is huge for the sufferers of this disease- who are very rare, and not linked to sex.
It's worthless to the many bald men who find sometime after puberty that their head hair just retracts. Those men are actually bald. This guy was something else entirely.
Is there a hobbit option that fills in the feet without making a beard?
Sadly this has nothing to do with male pattern baldness, but still great news for people with Alopecia.
a completely negligle amount, compared to that used for fuel and electricity. look it up.
yeah dudes, it totally happened like this.
I think that was a joke, right?
Right. Because they totally don't pay attention to anything else. You know, like how many houses, cars, or basketball teams he owns.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Surprisingly enough they found that a patient suffering from a side-effect of an autoimmune disorder treated with a drug for treating an (other) autoimmune disorder was successful in reducing-aka-curing the side-effect.
PLUS ONE for "the scientific method", MINUS ONE THOUSAND for thinking this is in ANY way "totally amazing duude!".
BTW: you CANNOT "cure" baldness, baldness is not a disease, it's a description of a symptom.
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
So, just from the summary, this doesn't sound very impressive.
Basically, he had several conditions that interfere with hair growth, but apparently he had fully working follicles and such.
When they grow a full head of hair on someone who went bald "normally", then that will be impressive.
(No, I am not one of the bald ones.)
The chemical layout of Tofacitinib looks fairly similar to estrogen. We've known for ages that giving MPB-afflicted men estrogen will result in hair regrowth. Unfortunately, it also makes them grow breasts, but that's besides the point.
Throwing my moderations in this disccusion to reply to this - there ought to be a "Wrong" mod option ;)
Nope, it's nothing like estrogen. One might as well conclude the structures are related to LSD:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
I am an organic chemist currently working in drug design and would conclude these compounds are, from a molecular standpoint, extremely disparate.
now the most brilliant minds can move on to prolonging male erection. no, boosting IQ is still dead last in the list.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Welcome to the world of man-scaping. But hey, at least you have eyebrows to waggle at the ladies now.