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Discussions About Being Bald => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ghost1988 on April 21, 2009, 02:25:13 PM
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you guys think they have something here?
http://www.youtube.com/v/V64ht1r8APo&hl=en&fs=1
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I saw on NBC over a year ago, stem cells that grow new hair follicles. They said it was 3 or 4 years away from being reality. How it works is the scrape your skin and smear on some sort of cream and genetic material and new follicles grow. strange stuff coming in the near future. not interested myself.
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The only reason that I can see for people putting so much effort to find a "cure" for something that isn't a disease is that it has the potential for generating huge profits for people who prey on the insecurity of others.
I am sure that it will be advertised using the same negativity that Hair Club uses now. "you need this to be confident and attract women".
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The only thing I'd listen to in this video is that they FINALLY talk about the truth when it comes to Propecia and that it doesn't help you grow hair if you've already lost the follicle.
As for being able to generate hair, they didn't mention any side effects, and I'm sure there are plenty. Plus, I don't need a "cure" as I don't have a disease.
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Have you guys ever heard of Urine therapy? Yes you've read correctly. Before i decided to go sly i did alot of research on regrowing hair. On youtube.com i discovered a process called Urine therapy. There was a young man who was well presentable and was talking about natural ways to grow your hair, and several men say it works. In the video the man says to take your first morning urine and actually soak your scalp with your urine... I guess it really works, Some people drink it as well, theres no harm in drinking it because its sterile... but i dunno about drinking my own waste! LOL Has anyone else heard or tried or just think i'm plain NUTS!
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Have you guys ever heard of Urine therapy? Yes you've read correctly. Before i decided to go sly i did alot of research on regrowing hair. On youtube.com i discovered a process called Urine therapy. There was a young man who was well presentable and was talking about natural ways to grow your hair, and several men say it works. In the video the man says to take your first morning urine and actually soak your scalp with your urine... I guess it really works, Some people drink it as well, theres no harm in drinking it because its sterile... but i dunno about drinking my own waste! LOL Has anyone else heard or tried or just think i'm plain NUTS!
hahaha I am sure the guy who came up with it is having a big laugh.
While I do not think hairloss is a disease, I think it would be nice if there is something that can hide any bald spots so that you don't have any. I don't have any bald spots yet but I think it would be nice if I do get a solution when it arrives just until I become old enough that it doesn't matter anymore.
In any case, all thanks be to God for providing us with shaving the head as an option to dealing with MPB.
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Hair restoration is a billion dollar industry--this will just move some dollars around and take more money from guys fighting the inevitable. Listen to the subtext, there are going to be side effects if it ever gets on the market at whatever price. Interesting to me how it gets people going though--Sly is really the only answer, get used to it.
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Ghost,
To answer your question- I would be very sceptical. I have been following hair loss news for over a decade now. In my years it seems that the "cure" has always been "about 5 years away." Example- about 7-10 years ago hair multiplication was the hot topic when it came to hair loss cures. It was predicted that hair multiplication could be the hair loss cure in about....5 years. That was seven years ago. Do a quick google of hair multiplication and even today the experts are saying the technology is about 5 years away. My intention is not to be negative. I hope this new technology works out for the men who desire it. However, I wouldn't get too excited too soon. Interesting story. Thanks for sharing.
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honestly... f**k those guys and their cure. Cure for hairloss like its a disease that we can't live with. I'm a fairly pleasant guy but again read above..
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honestly... f**k those guys and their cure. Cure for hairloss like its a disease that we can't live with.
What he said. O0
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Sounds like nothing to get hyped about Ghost. It's something that might lead to something, and when you're doing anything with medical compounds that haven't been tested yet, who knows what the side effects and cost could be.
Did Matt Lauer seem a little overly interested in that or was it just me?
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honestly... f**k those guys and their cure. Cure for hairloss like its a disease that we can't live with. I'm a fairly pleasant guy but again read above..
sean hits nail on the head. O0 O0
WARHAWK O0
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honestly... f**k those guys and their cure. Cure for hairloss like its a disease that we can't live with. I'm a fairly pleasant guy but again read above..
DING!DING!DING! Sean gets it right!
I'd rather they be spending the time and money to cure real diseases like childhood diabetes etc.
Matt Lauer could hardly contain his excitement............ what an insecure twit...........
We already know the "cure"........... a nice razor and some good shave cream!
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honestly... f**k those guys and their cure. Cure for hairloss like its a disease that we can't live with. I'm a fairly pleasant guy but again read above..
DING!DING!DING! Sean gets it right!
I'd rather they be spending the time and money to cure real diseases like childhood diabetes etc.
Matt Lauer could hardly contain his excitement............ what an insecure twit...........
We already know the "cure"........... a nice razor and some good shave cream!
What all the guys have said.
Cure?? We dont need a bloody cure. We are not pariah's and I resent the implication that I have something that needs fixed. WHEN WILL THEY REALISE THAT WE ARE HAPPY THEY WAY WE ARE. I am so damn pissed off with this. I went to my local library last night and was browsing the health book shelves, and there it was "The cure for baldness". :Xo! :Xo! :Xo!
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I think Matt needs to take the blade on his scalp.
Imagine what could be done with the wasted money spent on hairloss research. Get with the program people...its just hair.
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You only need a cure for something that is wrong, and being bald isnt wrong, so how can we need to be cured? :Xo! Being bald also isnt an illness. It doesnt stop you working, being useful to society or mean that you might develop criminal tendencies :/O
The only time I would ever believe a cure for hair loss would be if the people who discover it offer it to the world ABSOLUTELY FREE. And that will never happen, because these people just want to prey on victims who are insecure and will grasp at anything in order to have hair back because they have been made to feel they are ugly and second-rate without it.
I don't feel like that, and never have, so I certainly don't need a 'cure'.
I would sooner use something that got rid of my hair forever!! 8)
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I don't feel like that, and never have, so I certainly don't need a 'cure'.
I would sooner use something that got rid of my hair forever!! 8)
Exact-a-mundo!!!
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I don't feel like that, and never have, so I certainly don't need a 'cure'.
I would sooner use something that got rid of my hair forever!! 8)
Exact-a-mundo!!!
I'm with Rob and J. J. on this one
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honestly... f**k those guys and their cure. Cure for hairloss, like its a disease that we can't live with.
What he said. O0
Add me to this opinion as well. No cure needed, as hair loss is not a disease!
Do you really think that you will have hair back like when you were twenty, or thirty?
Be realistic, will ya.
C'mon now, this is a ridiculous subject, get over it.
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Not in the least bit interested.
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I am done fighting mother nature she can have all of my hair, and I don't want it back.
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I am done fighting mother nature she can have all of my hair, and I don't want it back.
That's the attitude to have bro, way to be! O0
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my hair is over.
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haha, my hair is over too.
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I used to have hair, but thankfully I made a full recovery!! ;D
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I saw on NBC over a year ago, stem cells that grow new hair follicles. They said it was 3 or 4 years away from being reality. How it works is the scrape your skin and smear on some sort of cream and genetic material and new follicles grow. strange stuff coming in the near future. not interested myself.
I think stem cell research is better spent on find a cure for things like cancer, aids, etc.
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I made sure my hair is over. LOL
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I used to have hair, but thankfully I made a full recovery!! ;D
if they're going to waste money fighting hairloss then come up with something to make me not have to shave anymore, you know something to just finish the job. Like Mike said spend the money on a cure for "real" disease.
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would be very cool ifthey did, i like a fll head of hair.
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I think stem cell research is better spent on find a cure for things like cancer, aids, etc.
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Yeah, no kidding. By 2015 no one with care and if they do, well....
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Who the hell wants to be "cured?"
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alot of you guys sound bitter...why?
if this actually works with no side effects etc.., i would do it.
maybe because im only 20 and its hard with the jokes and stuff, but i miss having hair. and also im light skin with dark hair so my shadow is very visible and its like u can almost see my damn hairline still...its like whats the point in shaving my head?
no one said its a disease, but face it...none of us were happy when we found out we were losing hair or am i wrong? no one wanted to start going bald.
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IF it was a cure, yeah I would. No snake oils or potions to temporarily give you marginal results that costs an arm and a limb.
But, I would also still shave. I like how it looks.
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they should take all that money they are spending on this and buy everyone on this forum head shaveing products of our choice. O0
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alot of you guys sound bitter...why?
if this actually works with no side effects etc.., i would do it.
maybe because im only 20 and its hard with the jokes and stuff, but i miss having hair. and also im light skin with dark hair so my shadow is very visible and its like u can almost see my damn hairline still...its like whats the point in shaving my head?
no one said its a disease, but face it...none of us were happy when we found out we were losing hair or am i wrong? no one wanted to start going bald.
From the look of your avatar pic it doesnt look like you got a real balding problem anyway: about like mine, in fact. I choose to be bald, so of course I wouldnt want a cure.
I think most people on this thread were just unhappy (and sounding 'bitter' as you put it) because of the word 'cure' - as if balding is some kind of disease. It's a little like suggesting you need a cure for being gay or black or disabled or whatever. I don't happen to think any of these things need curing, and neither does baldness, unless people are totally unhappy with the way they look, of course. 8)
Me? I love being bald, and certainly wouldnt go out of my way to grow loads of hair! :D
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All else being equal I think it would be cool to have a full head oh hair again. I love the shaved head look, but wouldn't mind being able to change it up every once in a while. Would love a tight flattop.
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All else being equal I think it would be cool to have a full head oh hair again. I love the shaved head look, but wouldn't mind being able to change it up every once in a while. Would love a tight flattop.
I concur, O0 (but not for the flat top). :*))
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All else being equal I think it would be cool to have a full head oh hair again. I love the shaved head look, but wouldn't mind being able to change it up every once in a while. Would love a tight flattop.
I used to feel that way, but I really don't care for the flattop look as much as I used to and I really can't think of any other hairstyle that I'd like to have. It took me a long time to come around to this way of thinking, but I really view hair as more of a hassle than anything else. I wouldn't want to go back to having hair under any circumstances. If I had a full head of hair now, I think I'd be very jealous of all the shiny bald heads at the gym.
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All else being equal I think it would be cool to have a full head oh hair again. I love the shaved head look, but wouldn't mind being able to change it up every once in a while. Would love a tight flattop.
I concur, O0 (but not for the flat top). :*))
Same here DG, I don't care for the flat top myself.
I wouldn't mind the option of changing it up now and then. I still have enough hair to grow, but not like I used to. It would be nice to experiment with some of the different looks.
Luckily I still have the ability to do some variation. But it's much tougher for the guys who have an acute horseshoe.
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I find myself more jealous of guys that look really good sly, or have no shadow, rather than guys with hair.
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Vacationed in New Hope (PA) the other day; the bikers hang out there at the anqiguing/arts n crafts world of New Hope. Many were sly and u couldnt tell if they had hair or not. Im not for the cure. Its a kewl look.
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Nah! They are always promising these things.. besides how does it matter.. I mean sure it would be cool to be able to change your look once in a while.. but thats all.... and you know the more you count on these follicular miracles, the more you sometimes can tend to not like your sly head.... if it happens good.. if not no big deal......
Sure we can miss having hair... but you have a head full of hair and you miss being sly once you get used to it!! ^-^
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A lot of guys on this site love their shaved head. Many are balding naturally, but many (like me) shave a full head of hair. I for one feel as comfortable as a clown at a funeral (not a MJ joke) when I have to let my hair get 4 or 5 days long because I'm just not me.
If someone were to come to this board and say "I can no longer shave my head because ..."
- "I get ingrown hairs."
- "I get a bad rash."
- "I have moles that get cut."
I can guarantee that people would suggest various forms of medical advice, and that's the problem! Why is it OK for one person to seek expensive and/or medical treatments to maintain their look while it's a sign of negative psychological problem for someone else to seek an expensive and/or medical treatment to maintain theirs? Why is it different when someone has the look we do not like?
Is someone who wants to maintain a shaved head a tool of Gillette's "greed"? Are they puppets of Headblade's clever marketing? Or are they living under the delusion that their after shave will cause a group of hot women to flock to them at the bar? Of course not, but that's the EXACT ATTITUDE this thread is filled with for those who choose to like their hair.
And so what if someone's spending their money on this research? As long as it's private money and not government money it's none of our concern! Imagine how scary it would be to have a single person decide the most important use of resources and force them to be allocated there! And, besides, all of these scientific breakthroughs interact with each other at some point anyway. You never know how one thing will affect another. For example, the entire VCR /DVD era probably either wouldn't have happened or would have been substantially delayed if it wasn't for the porn industry.
So there's an incredible breakthrough in hair loss prevention coming out? COOL! I hope it works out for them. Me? I'll be shaving.
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I'm sceptic.
Even if it is legit I think it will be over priced and high risk with no guarantees. But then again, all these techniques are one step closer to perfecting theregrowth of hair, or prevent losing it altogether.
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once again I have to call BS on this one. What are the side effects and I am happy with my look so why do I need to change
>:D
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once again I have to call BS on this one. What are the side effects and I am happy with my look so why do I need to change
>:D
And that coming from a man who's holding the magic orange triangle filled with secret hair growing potion ;-)