a solution...

[andrei_eremenko]

looks like something to solve our problems with hair doesn't exist...I'm wondering why this all hi tech from today can not do something to replace the hair...something to need to change every year...with fake hair but to look normally and natural...at touching and seeing...maybe this baldness bothers just a fe people all around the world...and they are gathered here on forum :dunno:

 

[Nene]

Baldness bothers everyone who isn't dealing with starvation or some other serious problem, at least at first and to some degree.

 

[andrei_eremenko]

yea...it is true...even if i have an uncle who said that it never bothered him...he said that his goals was always to get rich and to live his life...and he became rich...and he's living the life ok...

What I was trying to say...it's that we have a lot of hi-tech...and still you don't gave a solution with something or natural to replace the lack of hair....for example something like a wig...but with a base that can fuse with the skin...letting it to breath...and so on...and to be able to make even a buzz cut and to look ok...

 

[Nene]

yea...it is true...even if i have an uncle who said that it never bothered him...he said that his goals was always to get rich and to live his life...and he became rich...and he's living the life ok...

What I was trying to say...it's that we have a lot of hi-tech...and still you don't gave a solution with something or natural to replace the lack of hair....for example something like a wig...but with a base that can fuse with the skin...letting it to breath...and so on...and to be able to make even a buzz cut and to look ok...

There have been artificial hair transplants in the past but they body rejects them, they are very dangerous. I do hear you though Andrei, you would think with all of our technology there would be some sort of better treatments.

 

[Boondock]

People make an assumption that because it's "only hair", we'll easily find a solution.

The cosmetic nature of the body part makes no difference to how easy it is to treat the problem. Unlike, say, heart disease, preventing baldness is difficult because it involved not helping your body to function normally, but fighting your body's normal functioning. Remember that your body wants you to be bald. It's not easy to stop this.

For the record, it bothers people to varying degrees. Generally the younger it hits, the more annoyed you are. But there are those who lose it young who don't care, and those who lose it old who do. Either way, the market exists for curing it if the technology comes along.

 

[Nene]

People make an assumption that because it's "only hair", we'll easily find a solution.

The cosmetic nature of the body part makes no difference to how easy it is to treat the problem. Unlike, say, heart disease, preventing baldness is difficult because it involved not helping your body to function normally, but fighting your body's normal functioning. Remember that your body wants you to be bald. It's not easy to stop this.

For the record, it bothers people to varying degrees. Generally the younger it hits, the more annoyed you are. But there are those who lose it young who don't care, and those who lose it old who do. Either way, the market exists for curing it if the technology comes along.

You make an excellent point boondock, hair loss is written in our genes so it's like trying to change your height or the color of your eyes. However, if we can clone animals, or grow human hearts in a lab, why the hell can't we clone some hair.

 

[andrei_eremenko]

maybe we'll do in 5 years or so...till then...I will wait for a response from finasteride...let's say for a year...and if I can get any result...I'll go on hairpiece route...this is it...I can not accept the baldness...or even recedeed temples...

 

[Boondock]

People make an assumption that because it's "only hair", we'll easily find a solution.

The cosmetic nature of the body part makes no difference to how easy it is to treat the problem. Unlike, say, heart disease, preventing baldness is difficult because it involved not helping your body to function normally, but fighting your body's normal functioning. Remember that your body wants you to be bald. It's not easy to stop this.

For the record, it bothers people to varying degrees. Generally the younger it hits, the more annoyed you are. But there are those who lose it young who don't care, and those who lose it old who do. Either way, the market exists for curing it if the technology comes along.

You make an excellent point boondock, hair loss is written in our genes so it's like trying to change your height or the color of your eyes. However, if we can clone animals, or grow human hearts in a lab, why the hell can't we clone some hair.

Cloning an entire organism is in many ways easier than cloning a single body part. Extracting an animal's DNA and replicating it into a sperm/egg embryo allows you to get the job done.

As for growing a heart "in a lab"...well, we can grow hair in a lab too. The trouble comes with getting it to actually work properly. We can't grow a spare heart in a lab and implant it into a human being with success, nor can we do so with hair.

This is why I think we should focus away from all this stuff. The majority of people (95%+) will find success either through shaving, systems, medication, hair transplants, or some combination of these. Even if a hair transplant doesn't turn out to get you back to NW1, it can look alright, and you certainly won't be a skinhead if you don't want to be. It's a solution you can have in the here and now.

 

[andrei_eremenko]

I'm sure that maybe in 10 years something will be available...

 

[Boondock]

I'm sure that maybe in 10 years something will be available...

Maybe, maybe not.

The question is: how are you sure? What is that based on? Ultimately it will break down into something like "well there are so many companies working on this now that someone must fix it in 10 years."

Again: maybe, maybe not.

By all means be hopeful, but don't base your future on assumption. Assumption is the mother of all f*ckups, as they say.