Pharma Companies See Hair Loss As Not Worth It To Cure

[Janko]

I was at my homeland the last week and while I was wisiting my family our family friend was there too.
He works in the research for one global Pharma and I asked him, why the hell are they not researching hair loss. That the rentability from it is definitely worth it. Free translation of what he told me.
Hair loss was topic I believe in every Pharma comp., but it is not interesting field to get into. You won't get any investor or goverment dotation for this research. No health insurance in the world covers the hair loss. The research would be really expensive, take a lot of resources and time. With a low chance that you will succeed. If you find something, you would have to make it expensive to pay back the research. Either there would arise some chinese version of the product or other company will develop similar mechanism. No chance of making easy money. We live in capitalism era, so the profit from something leads the way. If the hairloss products were covered by health insurance, there would be a good product in 5-8 years for sure.

f*** this society...

 

[karatekid]

I mean, hairloss is shitty situation, no doubt, but why would health insurance cover this? this is aesthetic problem, I dont think they cover any other aesthetic issues.

 

[Janko]

I mean, hairloss is shitty situation, no doubt, but why would health insurance cover this? this is aesthetic problem, I dont think they cover any other aesthetic issues.

I agree. On the other hand. You are paying health insurance which pays for cancer treatment of smokers, heart transplant of fatty sack of sh*t, hiv treatment for crackheads etc. It is not our mistake we are losing hair, yet it can and most likely it will affect yout whole life negatively. Health insurance covers even spa holidays for overweight people...

 

[whatintheworld]

If enough media pressure was made that it is also a mental health issue, perhaps insurance would begin to cover it.

 

[JonnyGo]

I agree. On the other hand. You are paying health insurance which pays for cancer treatment of smokers, heart transplant of fatty sack of sh*t, hiv treatment for crackheads etc. It is not our mistake we are losing hair, yet it can and most likely it will affect yout whole life negatively. Health insurance covers even spa holidays for overweight people...

Hair loss doesn’t cause any harm to your body. It may destroy your confidence but it won’t kill you.

 

[Wisemiller]

Hair loss doesn’t cause any harm to your body. It may destroy your confidence but it won’t kill you.

I think if we look at the staggering rise of depression and suicide among men, and it's just going to get worse (you have the incel movement, mass shootings, etc.) I think you can soon argue that male pattern baldness can indirectly be lethal.

 

[TK421]

Ironic that two of the most well known billionaires (Bezos and Musk) have hairloss. Maybe Bezos doesn't really care but it's obvious Musk is self-conscious about it. You would think with all the money he has he could easily fund a team to come up with a cure. I'm beginning to realize it doesn't matter how much money is put into research, there won't ever be a cure because hair loss seems way too complicated to fix. Just like we'll never be able to change a person's genetics to be taller, we won't be able to change a person's sensitive hair follicles to be resistant to hormones.

 

[itsjustsimon]

Man, that's so weird to me...

People saying they would easily drop 50k for Tsuji or they are buying some questionable compounds from China at $400/month that don't even work or even Brotzu lotion for 100€/month that doesn't do jack sh*t...

Millions of patients that are ready to drop thousands of dollars a year in the world where looks are more and more important each year in every area of our lives... I just don't get it.

 

[Janko]

Man, that's so weird to me...

People saying they would easily drop 50k for Tsuji or they are buying some questionable compounds from China at $400/month that don't even work or even Brotzu lotion for 100€/month that doesn't do jack sh*t...

Millions of patients that are ready to drop thousands of dollars a year in the world where looks are more and more important each year in every area of our lives... I just don't get it.

From what I understood, the problem is, that Pharmas do not want to spend their researchers, time and money on it, since they could do trials on other illness or injury, get some funds and if they actually finish something to have it covered by insurance. Have you seen the prices of some prescription drugs? Some shits costs over 100€ per week. Companies sees money in that.

 

[swingline747]

I mean, hairloss is shitty situation, no doubt, but why would health insurance cover this? this is aesthetic problem, I dont think they cover any other aesthetic issues.

obesity.... if fat people get covered, then so should hair loss.

 

[genetically_cursed]

they will never develop cure to hair loss because its multi billion dollar economical industry, its simply loss making decision to create a treatment for hairloss for the market

 

[karatekid]

obesity.... if fat people get covered, then so should hair loss.

Because besides the aesthetics, obesity is also a bad health condition.

Lets say that if we would see treaments such as boobjob goes into health insurance, then we can really get pissed.

Look i wish it could be like that, but objective point of view it doesnt need to be. Now, the fact that it effects on pharma companies considerations is just really sad outcome...

 

[Derelict]

Any company that came up with a 100% hairloss cure would make a fortune, this is like those shitty cancer conspiracies...they make more money off treatment than a cure etc it's a massive market and i have no doubt big pharma knows this.

 

[swingline747]

Because besides the aesthetics, obesity is also a bad health condition.

Lets say that if we would see treaments such as boobjob goes into health insurance, then we can really get pissed.

Look i wish it could be like that, but objective point of view it doesnt need to be. Now, the fact that it effects on pharma companies considerations is just really sad outcome...

https://www.webmd.com/beauty/breast-implants-and-health-insurance-facts-to-know

"Insuranceusually will not cover breast enlargement surgery. It will, though, cover breast implants for women who have had mastectomies due to breast cancer."

Technically one flat breast is a cosmetic issue no? Trust me Ive researched all these things. Also obesity you do to youreself, like smoking, like drinking, like drug addiction, etc etc..... if people are willing to throw away their health then they dont deserve to get the benefits of health coverage.

 

[genetically_cursed]

Any company that came up with a 100% hairloss cure would make a fortune, this is like those shitty cancer conspiracies...they make more money off treatment than a cure etc it's a massive market and i have no doubt big pharma knows this.

u dont get it. obvously the one company that comes up with cure for hair loss will become billion worthy, but it will destroy all other ones literally shutting down hundreads of plants that manufacture propecia, finasteride etc. imagine the scale of unemployement and profit loss for economy.
first principle of journalism, if u want to get to the truth - follow the money.

 

[Armando Jose]

Pharma firms are not interested in preventive methods for common hairloss, this is the key, ,,, surely in a cure yes but it is not easy,

 

[Dutchie]

No offense Janko, but this is a stupid thread. There are billion of $$ worth of profits for a hairloss cure

 

[Saurabhaj]

u dont get it. obvously the one company that comes up with cure for hair loss will become billion worthy, but it will destroy all other ones literally shutting down hundreads of plants that manufacture propecia, finasteride etc. imagine the scale of unemployement and profit loss for economy.
first principle of journalism, if u want to get to the truth - follow the money.

Hairloss has not been cured because all attempts to cure this failed.
Research do not work with an objective to earn money on maintainance treatment.

Now don't say Palliative Treatment was made for earning money only.

Cure can easily give a researcher a Nobel Award..That's more than enough to create a legacy that will be remember for hundreds of years to come.

 

[BalderBaldyBald]

Depression is covered by health insurance, but not Androgenetic Alopecia

Androgenetic Alopecia is linked to higher level of depression

See the irony and cry
You're just allowed to pop some happy pills and keep going to work, be an "active" capitalist and buy some hairs to f*****g surgeons

 

[karatekid]

The truth is, that people dont care enough, and im talking about BALDING / BALD men, yes.
in spite what been seen here in the forum, the majority of balding men just accept it peacefully and go on.
Just look around you, f*****g hundreds of millions of balding dudes everywhere, how dont we see more guys with hair transplants? everytime I see one that can be good candidate I just wonder. And no, its not money, I work in hi-tech, and in my country the salaries of those jobs are at the top, Im sure all my friends, acquaintances, and other people I just see here in there (in my work place area), can all afford this.
Also I heard from time to time bald guys say they dont really care about it (didnt talk to them about it, just heard the conversation).

sure, there were guys here and there that were really devastated, but if you look at the big picture, I would say that only about 30 percent care about it, and maybe only 10 percent are really crashed (and can be probably found in this forum...)
im talking about men in the age range 20-45.

I dont know, this is just based on my observation.