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Potential New Cure Found For Baldness (bbc.com)
A potential new cure for baldness has been discovered using a drug originally intended to treat osteoporosis. BBC reports: Researchers found the drug had a dramatic effect on hair follicles in the lab, stimulating them to grow. It contains a compound which targets a protein that acts as a brake on hair growth and plays a role in baldness. Project leader Dr Nathan Hawkshaw told the BBC a clinical trial would be needed to see if the treatment was effective and safe in people. Only two drugs are currently available to treat balding (androgenetic alopecia): minoxidil, for men and women, and finasteride, for men only. Neither is available on the NHS, the national healthcare system for England, and both have side-effects and are not always very effective, so patients often resort to hair transplantation surgery instead.
I wonder how much one will have toupee for this.
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Article says it is "cyclosporine A" which is designed to prevent your body from attacking transplanted organs. That is a pretty serious drug, suppressing your immune system to the point that it mostly ignores giant blobs of foreign meat in your body. I'm sure the wikipedia article will get more fleshed out but the list of side effects sound about as severe as you could imagine.
I'm guessing that this is effective in extremely low doses? All it needs to do is attack a specific protein, I believe.
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Speaking as a folically challenged man, yeah!
I hope this caused some synapses to fire.
But does it also prolong and strengthen erections too?
Not going to spoil it, just read this article on Finasteride and tell me as technical folks you don't think the research team should be locked up in a dungeon for the rest of their lives for not factoring in the high likelihood of how replicating that process could bring crippling, life-destroying side-effects. That's not "what were you thinking" territory, it's "were you even thinking about anything other than fleecing your patients?"
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So they know the protein that blocks hair growth? So why not harness it to inhibit beards?
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It's called Male Pattern Baldness for a reason. Some of the patterns are common enough to have names ("Widow's Peak", "Friar Tuck"), but some are just weird and random. The "island" thing is probably a pattern rather than a hair transplant, though I agree, he should have just shaved his head (most of us are in denial about some aspect of our appearance).
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Sadly most practitioners will not perform laser removal on the scalp -- apparently the scarring risk is too great.
Which sucks. If I'm not going to have a full head of hair, at least let the rest of it fall out so i don't need to shave every other day.
I remember several articles years back talking about how the fat in the scalp produces chemicals or an enzyme which produces baldness. Specifically it kills/starves the follicles.
Also not sure about how well skin fat survives grafting. But theoretically if you could clone these fat cells and transplant them to areas before they become bald the hair would survive. If they also learn to clone hair follicles in the scalp along with regrowing the right fat cells it would be a cure for baldness.
Decades away but a nice thought. I think in vitro test tube gene editing with be approved far before we develop the above technique.
One thing I don't like about hair transplants is the way it leaves you head scared up. You may want hair but you also might want to go bald from time to time.
This isn't a Y DO /. CAREZ moment but literally who cares? Baldness isn't a serious situation. I'm not bald yet but when I start to show (which honestly I think will be sooner rather than later contrary to what my family is trying to tell me) I'll just shave it off and call it a day. I shaved bald in middle school every other month or so and it wasn't a big deal.
I mean we have cures for baldness and erectile dysfunction but it's scary how many things that matter we've made like no progress on. The horror stories I hear from women about the how period technology is basically unchanged in the past 7 generations or so. Like no one knows what causes endometriosis. And that affects a lot more people a lot worse than baldness. Baldness might be an issue for women but even that is fading. Baldness is something that doesn't even need a cure.
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I was mostly bald by age 30, and then I began to realize why: the hair had been silently migrating from my scalp to my nose and other places. I frankly look better with no hair up top, but can I get a treatment that puts a brake on that hair growth?
Why don't you compare the amount of funding breast cancer gets vs prostate cancer? I don't see people marching for my gdam prostate!
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This is not a potential cure for baldness. It is a potential cure for GOING bald IN THE FUTURE (or when it just starts). If my understanding is correct, once you have lost your hair, most of those follicles die and can never produce hair again. So those of us (me included) who have already lost a lot of hair (for years), this drug (or any other known drug) would do pretty much nothing. Our only current recourse is hair transplant.
What about people who don't have laser hair?
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You missed the part where they started out trying to find a better treatment for Osteoporosis, which is more common in women, who also start out with less bone mass and have less tolerance for losing it.
But good job knocking the ever-living shit out of a straw man and projecting gender-malice where it probably doesn't exist. They didn't find a treatment for Osteoporosis, but in the process they may have found something therapeutic for another condition - are they supposed to just throw that one back?
What an odd opinion to take.
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I got over it, it terrified me for years before I started losing it, that I got all the stress out early.
If there was a baldness fix, you can _bet_ your bottom god damn dollar, the price will be utterly extravagant. Some men would damn near kill to have their hair back, so they'll gladly pony up.
Make it a one off thing (not some ongoing drug concoction) about I dunno, under 1k$? Ok fine, otherwise, I'm good.
Is to not be so fucking vain, and realize that your personality, masculinity and worth as a human being does not reside in your hair. You're not Samson, dude.
Rock the buzzcut instead, it takes me 5 minutes every 2-3 days with a cheap electric trimmer. Or shave it completely, which is actually easier than shaving facial hair. With a bit of practice you can even shave in the shower.
Or rock the male pattern baldness like a boss. Look at Ed Harris, he's rocking it and there's no insecurity there.
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Baldness isn't a disease. One does not cure baldness anymore that one cures blue eyes or cure you for not being an olympic athlete. You are just taking drugs to change something about yourself. It's like taking steroids to change your muscles.
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