Throwing a crazy idea out there but doesn't it make sense that everyone making millions off of hair loss products would do everything in their power to prevent a cure for baldness coming to the market and not put any effort into finding a cure? Wouldn't that mean that by buying these products you are basically giving people a reason to not find a cure? Food for thought.:tellme:
Buying hair loss products reason there is no cure?
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massa
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Hair loss is a billion dollar industry and they can get a lot more money over the course of our lives by 'treating ' rather than a one time cure . Think about it I'm in my mid twenties and already spent in the four figures on preventing hair loss already ! If I continue for another few decades think about all the money they scammed out of me.
Why don't we just stop ?? Well it's all we have , we have no alternative . Prevention and slowing down hair loss and it sucks .
Why don't we just stop ?? Well it's all we have , we have no alternative . Prevention and slowing down hair loss and it sucks .
I could wrong but was there not a few treatments being researched but were dropped because according to some study the amount of men who seek out/use treatments to prevent or slow hairloss was lower than they thought? I remember reading about them on here quite a while ago.
resu
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I had no idea you could treat hair loss at all before jumping on the internet to try and find solutions and even then finasteride and minoxidil results versus the potential side-effects weren't impressive, so I can see why the majority just accept their condition. If we had something that restored +40% of the original density back with no dangerous side-effects you can believe everyone and their mothers would be on it.
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the pharmaceutical industry isn't a monopoly. One company has an incentive to release a new, better product because they will basically monopolize the industry for years until the patent runs out upon release of said better product, vastly increasing their profits as an individual company (even though the aggregate of the industry's profits may decrease, this is irrelevant from the standpoint of an individual company). Colluding among them would be illegal and the federal government is very effective in sniffing out collusion, and the idea that big pharm would collude over something as small as hair loss products (a small industry compared to other pharmaceuticals) is beyond a reasonable argument
this also goes for conspiracy theory argument that a cure for cancer/AIDS/etc are being held back from the public
this also goes for conspiracy theory argument that a cure for cancer/AIDS/etc are being held back from the public
Aesthetic
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fuk hairloss! some scientist needs to find a way to modify our genes or the hair stems so they dont fall out, they need a cure for this, fuk going to the moon or mars it would be better to just cure hair loss (100% serious)
Ya I just accept it for what it is at this point. I tried minoxidil for 7 months and its dirt cheap (kirkland brand) and it just made things a lot worse. Taking something just for a chance to slow down something that is going to happen anyways and also taking a risk for complications, no matter how small, just seems stupid to me. Plus I don't think with how far we are coming with stem cells that a hair loss cure is far from the future. Just sucks I'll probably be bald before I'm 25, ohh well getting used to the hat game now haha
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It's not THE reason, but it definitely is a contributing factor. Men in general but even on forums like these are WAY too complacent. You tell them we could crowdfund some research and all the debbie downers come in and trash the idea. You tell them about the work from Dr. Lauster, Christiano or Cotsarelis and nobody gives a **** (the stuff that actually will lead to a cure).
Whatever, the whole situation is pathetic and we've got ourselves to blame as well... though I know many guys wont want to hear that let alone admit it.
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Don't be silly, your tax dollars for dermatology research are HARD at work! LOL....
Listen, there likely is a potential cure, but as with all things with mens health, nobody gives a sh!t.
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There is never going to be a shortage of men with Androgenetic Alopecia. It'll be an endless supply of customers. To think that somehow when a treatment is released it will put an end forever to revenue is stupid. The male population doesnt suddenly go extinct.
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Yeah, just give up at minoxidil.. don't bother reading anything else that could potentially work, right? Complacency is the final solution to a hair loss cure.... sigh.
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True, a new biotech with work on a hair loss treatment will not be affected by another pharmaceutical being butthurt about a superior product. And for the record... WHICH current pharmaceutical is going to get its pantys caught up in a bunch? Merck? Their patent for Finasteride is over soon, if not already expired. Other than finasteride, there is NOTHING on the market to battle DHT. minoxidil doesnt count as its only a growth stimulant... it still doesnt address the problem with DHT. Evem if it did, the patent is long expired anyway. Outside of those two treatments theres NOTHING on the market... and theres nothing stopping a new startup from capitalizing on the market...
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If the market is wide open for total dominance with a superior product to finasteride... why then, did the corporate swine at Aderans pull the plug to go through with a Phase 3 trial when they could have had a product NEXT MONTH according to their projected timelines?
Whatever, the whole situation is pathetic and we've got ourselves to blame as well... though I know many guys wont want to hear that let alone admit it.
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Don't be silly, your tax dollars for dermatology research are HARD at work! LOL....
Listen, there likely is a potential cure, but as with all things with mens health, nobody gives a sh!t.
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There is never going to be a shortage of men with Androgenetic Alopecia. It'll be an endless supply of customers. To think that somehow when a treatment is released it will put an end forever to revenue is stupid. The male population doesnt suddenly go extinct.
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Ya I just accept it for what it is at this point. I tried minoxidil for 7 months and its dirt cheap (kirkland brand) and it just made things a lot worse. Taking something just for a chance to slow down something that is going to happen anyways and also taking a risk for complications, no matter how small, just seems stupid to me. Plus I don't think with how far we are coming with stem cells that a hair loss cure is far from the future. Just sucks I'll probably be bald before I'm 25, ohh well getting used to the hat game now haha
Yeah, just give up at minoxidil.. don't bother reading anything else that could potentially work, right? Complacency is the final solution to a hair loss cure.... sigh.
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True, a new biotech with work on a hair loss treatment will not be affected by another pharmaceutical being butthurt about a superior product. And for the record... WHICH current pharmaceutical is going to get its pantys caught up in a bunch? Merck? Their patent for Finasteride is over soon, if not already expired. Other than finasteride, there is NOTHING on the market to battle DHT. minoxidil doesnt count as its only a growth stimulant... it still doesnt address the problem with DHT. Evem if it did, the patent is long expired anyway. Outside of those two treatments theres NOTHING on the market... and theres nothing stopping a new startup from capitalizing on the market...
BUT...
If the market is wide open for total dominance with a superior product to finasteride... why then, did the corporate swine at Aderans pull the plug to go through with a Phase 3 trial when they could have had a product NEXT MONTH according to their projected timelines?