Well like I said, I'm back for more hair talk
OMG, thank you for all the interesting information
@Norwoody and
@Experimentality , it's truly mind blowing all this stuff. It looks like there is heaps of scientific evidence that E is the cure we are all looking for. The only problem is the side effects... The medical industry should focus on researching this, like the new E compounds you talk about...but no, they prefer to make money off scams, lying and pushing methods from the past century. It's sad that not many people take male hair loss seriously, like from what I read Fina/Duta were found out to help in androgenic alopecia by chance and nobody was really looking for a drug specially targeted at male hair loss.
Anyway If I understand this information correctly, it looks like a large dose of E might actually not be needed, as it looks like even small doses of E activate the receptors in the scalp? If this line of thought is correct, then it means that the cost-effect balance for using E could be a lot better then I previously thought.
I don't think it's as simple as Eastern Europe being "late to the party", it's a bit more complicated then that. During the days of the Soviet Union and it's Eastern Bloc allies, people seemed to be more tolerant, of course LGBT issues were not publicly talked about but people generally did not care what others did in the privacy of their bedrooms. This approach stemmed from two facts : One, that due to the ideology of building a new "Socialist society" people were encouraged by the government to look past their differences and embrace cooperation, brotherhood etc. The other fact was that due to traditional Slavic culture and customs, people generally used to be more trusting of each other, they used to look past first impressions and appearance, instead they judged others by their character. So If somebody was a good person things like being gay, cross-dressing etc. were overlooked. Homosexuality used to be illegal on paper in some Eastern Bloc countries, but so it was in some western countries at the time and it wasn't really enforced from what I gathered online and heard from older people.
Then came the 1990s, the USSR and the Eastern Bloc collapsed, and a bit of a "wild west" decade set in. LGBT people had it pretty well in my country during that time, as there were many open minded sub cultures, a notable one in my country were hippie like anarchists who used to be pretty gender non conforming, and homosexuality used to be very much accepted in their ranks. Then in the mid 2000s everything went downhill, oligarchs and career politicians who seized power during the 90s could not hide the horrible state of the economy any more, so to stay in power and avoid a popular uprising they turned up the nationalistic and reactionary rhetoric that they previously used to come into power. They created scapegoats who they blamed for the countries poor state, these were neighboring countries, leftists, made up foreign agents, migrants and of course LGBT people. Over 15 years of right wing nationalist propaganda did it's job, especially on the youth and here we are now. The same thing happened in many other Eastern European countries. Places like Russia and Belarus on the other hand seem to have avoided this, as the government there does not try to erase it's Soviet history so the old mentality of caring more about a persons personality then appearance is still alive and well there, like if you are a decent person most people won't give a crap about your sexual orientation etc. Of course there are extremists, but they are not as loud as in my country.
As to the UK, I have family there so I learned English when I was a kid, and I kept going there quite a lot during my school days for holidays, and still do now. But every time I kept coming back after a few months as my mum's health is not really good (That issue has been sorted now, thank God), plus in my dark days I used to identity with my country a lot and hate on the UK for being "faggy", like I was never a nationalist, but still I felt pretty patriotic. Even now I don't exactly hate my country, it has it's positive sides like the beautiful landscape, interesting history, and the Socialist era bought a lot of technology and progress to this land, but now that's all destroyed and in ruins. So I've become more anarchistic towards politics as I have come to believe that power corrupts and big government, oligarchs, and corporate greed is a very dangerous mix.
I prefer not to disclose to what part of the UK exactly I'm going, all I can say is my family there is split between England and Wales, and I will be staying with one part of it. They are much more open minded then the family in my country, and the UK itself is also open minded, so I know for a fact nobody will bother me if I decide to go with a radical regimen for my hair.
