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Baldness Cure Which Reverses Genetics Could Be On The Market In Two Years
The Daily Mail ^ | 8-19-12 | Sara Malm

Posted on 08/19/2012 10:42:58 AM PDT by trailhkr1

A cure for baldness may be available on the market sooner than previously thought after a breakthrough in negotiations between scientists and drugs companies. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania believe they have discovered the reason for baldness, an enzyme which shuts down hair follicles.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: baldness; healthcare; men
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To: trailhkr1

Oh, that ~ readily explained. 40 years earlier Piccard went to the doc and said “Doc you gotta help me. I”m out there in space all the time, and visiting aliens and such, and I feel inadequate. Give me the largest one in Alpha Quadrant’, and so that’s what the Doc did, but with an adjustment allowing DUAL PURPOSE so he could walk!


21 posted on 08/19/2012 12:16:22 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: trailhkr1

Once the cure is found, the insurance companies and medical field will want a piece of the pie, and the lotion will go for $5,000 a tube. Of course they will water it down and tell ya you needed a series of 20 tubes over a year period to the cure to work.


22 posted on 08/19/2012 12:21:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: trailhkr1

Only jug-eared men need a lot of hair on their heads.


23 posted on 08/19/2012 12:25:45 PM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: SampleMan
Do they have anything that will induce baldness for the ears, nose, and back?

I think it is all tied together. If you go bald on top, you gain plenty more on your ears, nose, back and shoulders. It certainly happened to me. I was able to grow back most of my hair with Minoxidil and Proscar, but still have the hairy ears and back.
Anyway, all of this crap is caused by Dihydrotestosterone, or DHT. Evil stuff. It is a testosterone byproduct that causes all of the symptoms I listed. If you produce a lot of testosterone, you produce a lot of DHT.

24 posted on 08/19/2012 12:31:08 PM PDT by America_Right (Remember, Republicans have a lot more in common with Democrats than they do with Tea Partiers.)
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To: trailhkr1

I’d be more exicted if they could cure liberalness in 2 years.


25 posted on 08/19/2012 12:33:07 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Washi
I loved that skit. I knew people in their forties still living with their parents when it aired.
26 posted on 08/19/2012 12:41:27 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: America_Right
but still have the hairy ears and back.

Lazer treatments. I'm doing it this fall. No more hair on parts I don't want it to be. Fairly reasonable from my price quotes but I heard it hurts like a mutha...3-4 treatments.

27 posted on 08/19/2012 12:41:48 PM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: JoeProBono
Pitino needs to worry more about his other end.


28 posted on 08/19/2012 12:44:49 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: trailhkr1

As a woman, I cannot understand why you guys get all bent out of shape about baldness. It has no, repeat, NO effect on your attractiveness. Most women over thirty are not turned off by it. I wish you would all relax. It’s not a matter of “we love you anyway” i a pitying way, but of “we think you’re hot even if without hair on your head.” Seriously. Not just saying it; it’s true. Fussing with hair is a feminine trait so you don’t seem as sexy if you’re all upset and worried and regretful about whatever is or is not growing on your head. Stop.


29 posted on 08/19/2012 12:53:33 PM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

You know, I’d guess that there are at least a million ailments that should be tackled before the scientist concern themselves with baldness.

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30 posted on 08/19/2012 12:58:49 PM PDT by ROTB (Live holy, forgive all & pray in Jesus' name. Trust He is willing & able & eager to ANSWER BIG!)
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To: trailhkr1
Yeah, they'll cure your baldness alright, but they'll also mess up your genes. You'll have a full head of hair, but end up looking like this.
31 posted on 08/19/2012 1:03:15 PM PDT by Krankor
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To: The Sons of Liberty
You know, I’d guess that there are at least a million ailments that should be tackled before the scientist concern themselves with baldness.

The death of small "hairs" in the ear is one of the reasons people become deaf. Hearing loss is one of the most common disabilities.

If you can grow hair on the scalp you can use the same technique to grow back the hairs in the ears.

Still think it is something scientists should not be looking into?

32 posted on 08/19/2012 1:05:30 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Fate plays chess and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along)
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To: ottbmare

“As a woman, I cannot understand why you guys get all bent out of shape about baldness. It has no, repeat, NO effect on your attractiveness.”

As a man, I cannot understand why women get breast implants. It has no effect on your attractiveness.


33 posted on 08/19/2012 1:13:37 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: America_Right

I have a full head of hair approaching 50, but the ears, nose, and back just keep picking up speed.


34 posted on 08/19/2012 1:19:38 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: ottbmare

Gotta agree with you. Bald heads can be sexy for men. We gals OTOH, not so much. My hair was coming out by the handfull and I asked my doc about it. He said “Biotin”. So I got the Biotin and started taking it. My hair stopped falling out. I don’t think much grew back in, but it did stop falling out. Might work to help slow down hair loss for guys who are just starting to lose hair.


35 posted on 08/19/2012 1:24:09 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: trailhkr1

I always understood it to be that if you cured baldness, you held the keys to restoring lost hearing.. I wonder if this is true?


36 posted on 08/19/2012 1:45:15 PM PDT by Shanty Shaker
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To: trailhkr1

Can we do this in reverse? If I never had to shave my legs again, I’d be really happy.


37 posted on 08/19/2012 1:59:30 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: SampleMan
After doing some more research, I found that I was right about the fact that DHT is the cause of more body hair and less head hair, but it is NOT a byproduct of testosterone. Apparently, it is a byproduct of not having enough testosterone. It is evil stuff, though. It is why you see a lot of fat bald guys with hairy shoulders/backs/chests, and thin guys with plenty of head hair and no chest/back/shoulder hair (genetic lotto winners). I think I am going to up my Proscar dose after reading more about this nasty hormone. Yikes.

In your case, I guess you are producing DHT in just the right amount to cause hair growth in other places, but not enough to make your head hair fall out. Lucky! I have to eat less than 1k calories a day and zero carbohydrates to stay in the just overweight category, use a couple of different drugs to keep my head hair, and shave my ears every few days. The other body hair I can live with. If I let my ears go, I look like I'm wearing earmuffs after a couple of weeks. I'm 42 - 15 days younger than soon-to-be VP Paul Ryan. He's skinny and has a serious head of hair - and it isn't even turning grey! Yet another genetic lotto winner. Although I don't think he eats carbs, either. I have been living with this crap since my early 20s, and I was bald by 28. Thank heavens for Minoxidil and Proscar!

38 posted on 08/19/2012 2:25:08 PM PDT by America_Right (Remember, Republicans have a lot more in common with Democrats than they do with Tea Partiers.)
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To: trailhkr1

Not meaning to be vain but you would be surprised how may women are attracted to bald guys....if you wear it right - and don’t try to comb hair near your temple all the way over to the other side :)


39 posted on 08/19/2012 2:40:21 PM PDT by thepatriot1 (...brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue)
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To: trailhkr1

I would love to have long blonde hair again and have people yell “Get a haircut, hippy!”


40 posted on 08/19/2012 2:48:28 PM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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