Submitted 2 months ago by Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/baldness-cure-pp405-molecule-breakthrough-treatment
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.
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.
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.
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.
Answer: kind of, as long you keep applying the substance you will regrow all the hair that you have lost and maintain it
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.
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.
Same. I feel like I’d look so weird with hair now.
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.
keep applying for how long? Forever?
Until you’re ready for your old man era, presumably.
No
Is Betteridges Law dead?
no?
They didn’t and this doesn’t work as intended. They did however create a company to cash in on desperate people.
Reminds me of the time Vivek Ramaswamy bilked investors for millions with a phoney Alzeheimer’s drug
This is always the answer.
I don’t need to read an article to know that “no” is the correct answer the question in the title.
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.
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 out of the 10 or 20 thousand generations of humans there have been since our origin, everyone reading this will miss out on immortality by about 2.
I don’t intend to be dead in the bext 50 years.
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.
Lack of maintenance? Don’t you have to shave your head regularly?
Sure, but no need for combs, hair product, trips to the barber… I shave my face in the shower, and just keep going.
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.
So true. Haired people don’t realise that their haircut is a helmet.
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?
It depends how shiny you want to keep it.
I do mine every 3 days, but it’s quality podcast time.
Razor blades cost pennies. So cheap.
I think 95% of people would look better bald than holding on to thinning hair. I shave daily because I like it smooooth, but it only takes a few minutes in the shower.
Baldness doesn’t need to be “cured”. There are many many actual diseases where people need real help. Unfortunately capitalism completely degrades and perverts science/technology in order to make a quick buck, rather than actually helping humanity escape impending doom.
Finasteride effectively cured male pattern balding already. It’s safe and effective, the only downside is that you need to keep taking it
It’s also only preventative, seems like this is more reversal.
It reversed hair loss for me, I used to have a bald spot and I don’t have one anymore.
Idiocracy was prophetic, just way too optimistic in the timeline.
Sweet, so in thirty years I might be able to use this!
Can’t speak to the effectiveness of the baldness cure, but the model in the stock photo has cured ED, I am sure.
Thought this said blindness for a second. Was confused by the comments
grow hair on eye balls
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.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Bad” genetics?! Damn, that’s a little fucking judgmental for what is ultimately just a cosmetic issue.
bishbosh@lemm.ee 2 months ago
PUT ON THE WIG DEGENERATE
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Better watch out, the king of the US government is done with all the queers and chronically ill the baldies are next.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Ugh, finally…
coacoamelky@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I think people forget that not all populations benifit from more hair
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When my head is freezing and I don’t have a hat handy I’m pretty sure that’s not a cosmetic issue.
Case@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
I rocked long hair from grade school to my mid 20s.
Then, a lady friend (platonic) sat me down and had a talk with me.
The thinning, now seemingly always greasy, strands of hair was not a good look. Like, don’t visit a playground or I would be arrested on site lol.
So, being a metal head there are two main options, or at least were at the time. Long hair. Or take bare clippers to it.
So, I did.
That first winter fucking suuuucked. Still to this day, I tend to rock a hoody in cold weather, and toss my hood up to cover my head for warmth when outdoors.
Sometimes I let it grow out for about a month before taking clippers to it again, out of sheer laziness. A month of growth, from shaved, isn’t much in the way of hair, but temperature wise it is very noticeable.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah that’s a you forgetting your hat issue. Poor memory due to bad genetics. Damn you have all kinds of problems.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re going to tell me that people are applying Rogaine so they don’t have to apply sunscreen? Hm yeah that is a well thought out argument when Rogaine is 10x more expensive.
No. The male hair loss remedy industry is entirely built around cosmetic vanity, not keeping warm.
I can sit here and tell you how hair can be host to different parasites or impair your vision while driving or get caught and pulled into power tools and is therefore a bad survival trait.
But let’s not be absolute morons.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If the topic is undesired head hair loss, “bad” appropriately describes the genes that may contribute to that. The discussion is limited by the context to avoiding hair loss, it isn’t a universal conversation on cosmetics
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes if you 100% swallow the cultural requirement to have a full head of hair, then not having one is bad. But I don’t expect a journalist or academician to write from such a culturally specific point of view.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It just means you have too much testosterone.