• @scarabic
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    429 hours ago

    Hair loss is caused by a multitude of factors, including aging, stress, hormonal imbalances and bad genetics.

    “Bad” genetics?! Damn, that’s a little fucking judgmental for what is ultimately just a cosmetic issue.

    • billwashere
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      34 hours ago

      When my head is freezing and I don’t have a hat handy I’m pretty sure that’s not a cosmetic issue.

    • @roofuskit
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      Better watch out, when the king of the US government is done with all the queers and chronically ill the baldies are next.

    • @QuarterSwede
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      It’s not just cosmetic. Hair keeps the heat from escaping the head so quickly and, more importantly, it helps keep the head from getting sunburned and skin cancer.

  • FreeSoftware Ganoo
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    129 hours ago

    I’m bald and started shaving my head as soon as I noticed it was thinning (19 yrs old). I like the lack of maintenance and I think I look good with a bald head. \o/

    Wouldn’t change it tbh.

    • @miseducator
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      75 hours ago

      Lack of maintenance? Don’t you have to shave your head regularly?

      • @[email protected]
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        45 hours ago

        Sure, but no need for combs, hair product, trips to the barber… I shave my face in the shower, and just keep going.

    • billwashere
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      24 hours ago

      I’m with you but I would like the option honestly since I’ve been bald for over 30 years. Never having a bad hair day and razors being cheaper than haircuts are definitely a plus. But hitting your head on anything is almost always some sort of gash.

      But damn if I don’t have dreams sometimes of running my fingers through my hair.

    • @kmartburrito
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      25 hours ago

      Hey, I’m glad you can pull it off! I would look really weird with a shaved head. I would think there’s still maintenance involved though. How often do you have to shave it?

  • Hegar
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    7313 hours ago

    Through UCLA’s Technology Transfer Group, which transforms brilliant research into global market products, the scientists have co-founded a medical development company called Pelage Pharmaceuticals

    In case you were curious how this publicly funded research is going to be turned into private profits.

      • @[email protected]
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        3511 hours ago

        They could always make the research and processes public domain, so no one person can unilaterally profit.

        But that’s not what they did, and that’s the problem.

          • @[email protected]
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            5311 hours ago

            Of course not, which is why they’re publicly funded. That’s the issue. They’re using public funds to make private profits.

            • @o_arguido
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              2410 hours ago

              It’s amazing you even have to explain something so obvious.

              • @[email protected]
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                1710 hours ago

                License and release it into the public domain: research, methods, processes, patents—the whole deal.

                Privatizing medicine, even elective medicine, just ensures predation.

                • @[email protected]
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                  59 hours ago

                  I’m not following. Making the results public domain doesn’t prohibit private companies from manufacturing for profit.

  • @[email protected]
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    4813 hours ago

    I started losing my hair when I was a teenager, so I’ve been bald for most of my life. I’ve been shaving my head for decades because it’s the only way my head and face don’t look absurd. I’m totally used to it, and long ago accepted that I’d never have hair on my head again.

    But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want my hair back.

    If this turns out to be legit and works on most people, there could be a worldwide explosion of self-esteem in adults.

    • @TommySoda
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      2213 hours ago

      As someone that has also been bald since I was a teenager, I’ve also gotten used to it. I’ve accepted my fate and I’m fine with being bald.

      But at the same time do you ever have those dreams where you have hair again and get super excited about it? Like straight up Jesus hair.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 hours ago

        I had postcard white-guy Jesus hair, hanging to the middle of my back, straight and reddish blond. A beard too. I went bald in my mid-40s and now what’s left around the fringes is white. People who see pictures of me from back in the day don’t recognize me.

      • @[email protected]
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        1413 hours ago

        100%

        I’ve had dreams where my long locks were dramatically blowing in the wind, only to wake up and run my hands through my…well shit, that’s just my scalp.

        • @tapdattl
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          411 hours ago

          I just wish I had done something absurd like sport a bright pink mohawk at some point before going bald 😂

  • @[email protected]
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    1412 hours ago

    Cool, but if this does work maybe in 10 years it will be easily accessible , Iam already going bald right now, sure it would be nice to have an option down the line.

    One thing to keep in mind growing up in this age, a lot of things being developed or in the news now, simply won’t be accessible or relevant within my lifetime.

    • @scarabic
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      Dude, if this upsets you, consider that there are promising signs we may be able to significantly slow or even reverse aging itself within the next 50 years.

      This means that it will have taken humanity 10 or 20 thousand generations, since our origins, to achieve immortality. But you, me, and everyone reading this is going to miss out on that by about 2.

  • AllahOP
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    2714 hours ago

    Answer: kind of, as long you keep applying the substance you will regrow all the hair that you have lost and maintain it

    • @scarabic
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      69 hours ago

      Hair loss remedies are always criticized on the grounds that you need to continue using them to continue seeing the benefits.

      I don’t know why this complaint surfaces for hair loss medications in particular, when a lot of things are like this. Insulin. Depression drugs. All supplements. Etc.

    • @TommySoda
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      1513 hours ago

      That’s the problem I’ve always had with baldness remedies. Shaving my head every other week takes less effort and saves money. Plus I’ve been bald since highschool so I’m kinda used to it at this point.

      • @[email protected]
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        1712 hours ago

        Saves money sure, but every other week? I have to buzz it twice a week to keep it short enough to not look terrible. That’s enough effort that I’d rather apply a regular treatment.

        Not like a daily “keep doing it or you lose all progress” treatment, but maybe like a “use it more or less daily and it’ll grow back” treatment.

      • @TheFunkyMonk
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        313 hours ago

        Same. I feel like I’d look so weird with hair now.

    • Ulrich
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      313 hours ago

      keep applying for how long? Forever?

  • @iopq
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    210 hours ago

    Finasteride effectively cured male pattern balding already. It’s safe and effective, the only downside is that you need to keep taking it

  • @Donjuanme
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    412 hours ago

    Idiocracy was prophetic, just way too optimistic in the timeline.

  • @[email protected]
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    212 hours ago

    Can’t speak to the effectiveness of the baldness cure, but the model in the stock photo has cured ED, I am sure.

  • @MrNesser
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    214 hours ago

    Thought this said blindness for a second. Was confused by the comments

      • @TheGrandNagus
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        313 hours ago

        I can’t find a gif of it, so I’d just like everyone to imagine that I posted that scene from the SpongeBob Movie where a worker sprays a can of hair onto King Neptune’s eyes.