The consequences of a cure?

[s.a.f]

A guy who complained about his "hair loss problem" and sought out info/treatment used to be a middle-aged guy with a receding/balding head. In decades past it wasn't usually a 22-year-old who sounds like he's having a nervous breakdown about going from a Norwood#1 to a Norwood#2. The male experience in the 21st century is being heavily "metrosexual-ized" these days. Baldness used to be a big problem when the chrome-dome began showing, but now a lot of guys are complaining as soon as they first see signs of losing the ridiculous teenage thickness and the Norwood#1 hairline. Teenage hair is becoming the desired "normal" for a lot of 38-year-olds now.

A slight exageration I think :roll: look around you the majority of middle aged men are either bald or fat or both and are not doing anything about it. The only metrosexuals I know are aged 18-25 and single.

Not all men might be inclined to give a crap about hair loss themselves, but eventually they'll be forced to care about it when nobody else around them has any visible male pattern baldness anymore and they can't get laid because of it.

Hahahahahah! Is that Taug or CCS talking? :mrgreen:

 

[tonyunhawk]

That are some nice thoughts, cal. But s.a.f is right big time.
If you'd be as long in the "business" as s.a.f probably is
then you would know what the standard is.
And right know the standard is pretty low.

The situation with the changing self-perception already happend years ago (maybe decades)
and still there is no cure. The thing is, it's all genetic and when it comes to human genetics
you have to see there's a lot of heavy disease (e.g. parkinson) which the medical world
and the big players in the pharma industry are focusing on.

 

[s.a.f]

I think that a cure is more likely to be found as a byproduct of work on a cure for cancer or genetic research on a more important health related disorder, only after they have completed their 'important' work, than by scientists concetrating solely on a m.p.b cure.

 

[tonyunhawk]

The problem is s.a.f that there is always more 'important' work.
Right now I just don't see anything that could make a real difference on the hair transplant
sector. If a leading (optimistic and still scientific ) hair transplant-surgeon says today that hm
will be on the market soonest in ten years than you can double the time IMHO.
Maybe it will never come out.

 

[s.a.f]

Thats what I've been saying, a baldness cure is way down the list in the importance scale of the scientific world. Thats why I dont get optimistic about it theres no point in getting your hopes up and waiting thinking it'll be here anytime soon.

 

[tonyunhawk]

Yes, don't waste your time.

 

[cal]

Hey, I'm not exactly on the bandwagon of thinking that HM payments will be showing up on our credit card bills by 2009.

My whole rant started with the timeframe thrown out there of "10 or 20 years" for these kinds of social changes to be occurring. And even then, the treatment doesn't exactly arrive on the first day that the demand is there.

But I still think the situation is there. The demand for hair loss treatments will only increase.



And to get even longer-viewed . . .

I also suspect that the entire hair loss industry, even as big as it is, has still way underestimated the true size of the demand there would be for a real male pattern baldness option if the costs (all of them, not just money) were minor.

If we boil it back to basics, the simple numbers are this: Very, very few men are entirely 100% okay with losing their hair but half of them will lose it. And over a lifetime, the problem occurs in at least double-digit percentages even in women.
So, once that basic math is accepted, then what is really standing between right now versus a situation where 20% or even 30% of the ENTIRE population wants an male pattern baldness treatment? Not much.

There's the general unawareness of the facts about hair loss. There's the inertia that "real men don't care about it/take big steps to fight it." And the big deal-breaker is that all the current male pattern baldness "solutions" are absolutely pitiful to the point of being embarrassing. That's all. Those things are significant right now but I don't think that will always be the case. All these grand predictions won't happen in five years, but I'd lay money on a whole different situation in another 30 or 40 years.