Recent content by benjt2

Laron Syndrome, a case of IGF-1 deficiency, leads to Androgenetic Alopecia-pattern alopecia in... 1.5 year old kids: And, guess what, they also had skull bone growth abnormalities: Source: "Laron Syndrome (Primary Growth Hormone Insensitivity): A Unique Model to Explore the Effect of Insulin-Like Growth...

Cross-posting my newly created thread on insulin and bone growth here so the OP of this thread may be notified: Linking the von Mises mechanical stress models and insulin

As some of you might remember, some time ago there were was a study which managed to model the pattern of hair loss through a von Mises mechanical stress model. See this thread here. The model is surprisingly accurate but no one ever quite figured out why the mechanical stress, which seems to...

By now I personally think that human head hair has the same function as a peacock's tail: sexual signalling. These signals are known as honest, costly signals for the exact reasons you might expect: They are honest (i.e. usually can't be faked - until hair transplants, minoxidil and finasteride you couldn't fake...

It is worth trying but I personally think that just fasting is likely not enough to undo the total damage in inflammation and atherosclerosis that is generated from a normal diet. Take into account that there are different kinds of inflammation at play here - the one caused by hyperglycemia...

I knew about Chemhead (and obviously agree with him) but not about Taeian. Regarding animal fats, there are many studies such as this one. I won't flood you with other studies now (unless you are interested), but the gist of the matter is that I think subclinical/pre-CVD atheriosclerosis plays...

Whoever thinks that diet only plays a small role in Androgenetic Alopecia onset and progression speed, should get the full text of the following paper: Mediterranean diet: fresh herbs and fresh vegetables decrease the risk of Androgenetic Alopecia in males Additionally, Inuit - who are known not to have...

While I am very happy for other people being happy with whatever identity they have, can you please not hijack threads and drive them completely away from their original topic? 18 replies so far and none about the actual topic of this thread: gathering data of Androgenetic Alopecia prevalence in different...

Hi everyone, an idea that came up the other day: Why not try data mining/"big data" to identify contributing factors that trigger and/or speed up Androgenetic Alopecia? There are a lot of databases that gather various facts about populations in different countries. For example, there is the Global Dietary...

That guy took big amounts of vitamin D. From his thread on reddit: That is 4x the maximum recommended daily intake (4,000 IU x 7 days = 28,000 IU per week). There is another guy (Jared) who used aggressive massages + 50,000 IU vitamin D a week with similar success. I know most people think...

Yeah, the studies were mostly at 1.5 mm though and not nearly as dense as what we do with electric pens. Scars also depend on wound size IIRC but not sure. Maybe it's also possible to scar at bigger depths while avoiding scars in the epidermis? Technically it should be possible, as it happens in...

No worries mate, fully understandable. Btw, I had a closer look again at how DARPA (whose job literally is to speed up research) does things and they seem to follow the same three-pot approach, though they call them a bit differently: - grants (roughly equals "seed funding" for new research...

It's always better to target upstream, where possible. The way I read this section, vitamin D is upstream of TH. As we can directly supplement vitamin D, vitamin D is also easier to target. On top of that, vitamin D level elevation over longer periods of time also upregulates VDR. All in all...

Follica claimed on multiple occasions that anything deeper than 1.5 mm bears the risk of scarring. Additionally, they claim neogenesis happens in the epidermis and from there follicles move downward. This is why their patent seems to favor needling depth of 0.8 to 1.2 mm. That being said, maybe...

Something I just realized when reading experience reports of both successful dermarollers/microneedlers and of massage proponents: Most people who reported success on either of these mechanic manipulation-based regimens reported that they covered pretty big areas, sometimes even the whole scalp...