Hair loss research needs to be a TOP priority

[25 going on 65]

Literally BILLIONS of people suffer from this condition. It is extremely socially debilitating & psychologically traumatizing. If you look at the # of sufferers it is causing FAR more harm than most other health problems, including most kinds of cancer, including sh*t like lupus or AIDS, etc
Yet how much cash is going to research? This is probably the most widespread health problem there is. MOST MEN GO BALD. Many women do too. Yet the rate of research is f*cking pathetic.
If a cure is discovered, the lives of billions of people would be improved.....or at least they would have the option to improve. Right now we do not even have that option. We have pills/topicals to stop the progression (or slow it down for some, and these do not work for everyone) and to get a small% of regrowth, we have surgery to HIDE the condition (moving hairs around).
The only way to get back (the illusion) of a 100% full NW1? WIGS THAT PEOPLE ALREADY HAD 400 YEARS AGO. The most complete f*cking solution is a technolgy that is centuries old

F*ck you, society, and your pathetic priorities. You are so self deluded that you refuse to accept how crucial image is to having a good life. Image is almost everything before age 35. Even after that it is vitally important. This genetic disease is destroying that for MOST of the males who ever live, yet you would rather send f*cking robots to Mars or pour research money into diseases that affect a fraction of 1% as many people as this genetic curse
WHY? Is it because most people with money & influence already look so shitty that they have no motivation to help others with an image destroying condition? If that is the problem, these idiots do not even deserve to be where they are. They need to step down from their perches and let us take over. Put PatientlyWaiting, DepressedByHairloss, clandestine, Fixed by 35, Scorpion, BigThinker, etc on a committee for where the f*ck federal research money goes.
US government right now thinks nothing to spend 100 billion on weapons we never even use.....we will spend that same 100 billion and improve the lives of half the human race

Get your f*cking priorities straight

[baldozer]

Literally BILLIONS of people suffer from this condition. It is extremely socially debilitating & psychologically traumatizing. If you look at the # of sufferers it is causing FAR more harm than most other health problems, including most kinds of cancer, including sh*t like lupus or AIDS, etc
Yet how much cash is going to research? This is probably the most widespread health problem there is. MOST MEN GO BALD. Many women do too. Yet the rate of research is f*cking pathetic.
If a cure is discovered, the lives of billions of people would be improved.....or at least they would have the option to improve. Right now we do not even have that option. We have pills/topicals to stop the progression (or slow it down for some, and these do not work for everyone) and to get a small% of regrowth, we have surgery to HIDE the condition (moving hairs around).
The only way to get back (the illusion) of a 100% full NW1? WIGS THAT PEOPLE ALREADY HAD 400 YEARS AGO. The most complete f*cking solution is a technolgy that is centuries old

F*ck you, society, and your pathetic priorities. You are so self deluded that you refuse to accept how crucial image is to having a good life. Image is almost everything before age 35. Even after that it is vitally important. This genetic disease is destroying that for MOST of the males who ever live, yet you would rather send f*cking robots to Mars or pour research money into diseases that affect a fraction of 1% as many people as this genetic curse
WHY? Is it because most people with money & influence already look so shitty that they have no motivation to help others with an image destroying condition? If that is the problem, these idiots do not even deserve to be where they are. They need to step down from their perches and let us take over. Put PatientlyWaiting, DepressedByHairloss, clandestine, Fixed by 35, Scorpion, BigThinker, etc on a committee for where the f*ck federal research money goes.
US government right now thinks nothing to spend 100 billion on weapons we never even use.....we will spend that same 100 billion and improve the lives of half the human race

Get your f*cking priorities straight

[Notcoolanymore]

You forgot to put Highlander on your list.

[25 going on 65]

You forgot to put Highlander on your list.

Probably would have listed him except for his "issues"

However there are others I would add, those were just examples.

[Tracy C]

Hair loss research needs to be a TOP priority

Life threatening diseases and conditions need to be the top priority. As they should be.

A cure, or at least more effective treatments for hair loss would be an unbelievable gold mine though - so companies that have the means to pursue it are doing so. There is no doubt about that.

[25 going on 65]

A cure, or at least more effective treatments for hair loss would be an unbelievable gold mine though - so companies that have the means to pursue it are doing so. There is no doubt about that.

I agree but imagine if we dumped a few billion in public funds into it. We do this for conditions that affect not even 1% as many people.

[ChrisM]

AIDS, Leukemia, cancer, Heart Attack and Stroke, Diabetes, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Muscular Dystrophy and countless others will ALWAYS trump baldness because these are life threatening killer diseases that take people of all ages to the grave. You can live upwards to pending no medical complications up to 95 - 101 years old and still be bald. Eliminating baldness gives you back your youth and for some their self confidence if they had low self esteem to being with. But if the loss of hair did not take your self confidence and nothing is working for you it isn't the end of the world. As long as you have people around you who care about you, and that you have a roof over your head, and you have your health you are fine for the time being.

[Notcoolanymore]

AIDS, Leukemia, cancer, Heart Attack and Stroke, Diabetes, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Muscular Dystrophy and countless others will ALWAYS trump baldness because these are life threatening killer diseases that take people of all ages to the grave. You can live upwards to pending no medical complications up to 95 - 101 years old and still be bald. Eliminating baldness gives you back your youth and for some their self confidence if they had low self esteem to being with. But if the loss of hair did not take your self confidence and nothing is working for you it isn't the end of the world. As long as you have people around you who care about you, and that you have a roof over your head, and you have your health you are fine for the time being.

I hate balding just as much as anybody around here. Have been balding since my early 20's and it sucks, but I would rather be slick bald than have any of the health issues ChrisM mentioned.

[25 going on 65]

Living to 100 years old with andro alopecia is not living. It is existing
Most of those diseases do not have the same social stigma as hair loss. In fact they get you sympathy & understanding, not mockery

I am just saying....this is easily 1 one of the most common medical problems in the world. It is socially debilitating, and is bad for mental health which then harms physical health in general
Curing genetic hair loss would remove much more suffering from the world than curing something like Parkinsons

[pat]

I'm going to blame the terrible education system that we've had under the exact same format for over 100 years now. THat's the reason for a lack of cures and technology in general.

[baldozer]

Living to 100 years old with andro alopecia is not living. It is existing
Most of those diseases do not have the same social stigma as hair loss. In fact they get you sympathy & understanding, not mockery

I am just saying....this is easily 1 one of the most common medical problems in the world. It is socially debilitating, and is bad for mental health which then harms physical health in general
Curing genetic hair loss would remove much more suffering from the world than curing something like Parkinsons

Although I like my look even with a bald head, I agree with you. Unlike me, some men's looks are totally destroyed by baldness. And it doesn't seem to be that much difficult to treat even. There should had been a cure already, but since its not a priority for them, unfortunately, we still don't have any yet.

[Tracy C]

Living to 100 years old with andro alopecia is not living....

Most of those diseases do not have the same social stigma as hair loss...

Social stigma only affects you if you allow it to do so. Get your head right. Treat it if you can and move on to live your life to the fullest. Millions of men have done so for thousands of years. So can you.

[25 going on 65]

Social stigma only affects you if you allow it to do so. Get your head right. Treat it if you can and move on to live your life to the fullest. Millions of men have done so for thousands of years. So can you.

Social stigma affects how other people treat you & this does affect you, keeping a positive attitude does not change that. How can you go from being admired to being pitied (or reviled)? when you know what one is like, the other side is death
I think you have said before, men who are 15 years younger than you approach you. How does that make you feel? Vs how you felt before you treated your hair loss when you were depressed/isolated? You know the difference. Humans need social validation to be healthy just like they need food, water, sleep

[baldozer]

Social stigma affects how other people treat you & this does affect you, keeping a positive attitude does not change that. How can you go from being admired to being pitied (or reviled)? when you know what one is like, the other side is death
I think you have said before, men who are 15 years younger than you approach you. How does that make you feel? Vs how you felt before you treated your hair loss when you were depressed/isolated? You know the difference. Humans need social validation to be healthy just like they need food, water, sleep

I don't know why women get so happy when men approach them, when all they want is sex with them, regardless of whether a woman is fat, old or ugly.

[BigThinker]

I don't know why women get so happy when men approach them, when all they want is sex with them, regardless of whether a woman is fat, old or ugly.

It's validation. That's why if you're too quick to fully validate them right away -- as if they're on a pedestal -- you're dead in the water. They'll seek something bigger and see if they can get validation from a dude up the ladder.