The Two Shittiest Things About Hair Loss..............

[Aldrich]

These two things frustrate me even more than the actual hair loss.

1. Hair loss has no purpose and nobody can give an evolutionary explanation for it.
2. Those who suffer from male pattern baldness in the first part of their life are a minority. This alone should've classified it as a disease from day one of whenever the f*** it started to happen.

I just can't deal with these two things.

 

[CopeForLife]

I have read an article by advanced sly bald copers that since we ascended from apes and they had more hair than people now it means (wait for it..)

we are more evolutionally SUPERIOR to full heads since hair is leaving us just left from apes while they evolutioned into us.

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L O L

 

[CopeForLife]

The other thing is I see many mature people in real life who are successful, traveling, having a beautiful wives (really, it is not the cope), good jobs and STILL they can't cope with hairloss, they ALWAYS try to cover it up.

I realise that even if you will get a decent woman you always will be insecure about your hair and looks. You always will meet other NW1 men in their 40-s and think what they do about you.

Just imagine yourself with NW1 in 40-s in a company of bald friends how your ego will be inflated.

 

[CopeForLife]

That's not mere cope. That's super unbefuckinglievable cope. LOL Just ridiculous.

You know coping is just like a drug.

You inject the first dosage (a minor cope), you feel good.

Then one night THIS feeling (who knows will understand) will come again and you need to find another cope to cope with this desctuctive depression. But the new cope should be a bit more massive than cope before... Because the initial one isn't enough.

And so on until you finish with overdose in mental asylum bounded to your bed... Because with coping you aren't able to solve the problem just covering it and every time it strikes more and more stronger.

 

[Aldrich]

The other thing is I see many mature people in real life who are successful, traveling, having a beautiful wives (really, it is not the cope), good jobs and STILL they can't cope with hairloss, they ALWAYS try to cover it up.

This is an interesting note, indeed. It's funny how such a trivial thing (because hair loss is trivial compared to many other things) can dictate every aspect of your interaction with the world. Even if you're a hermit in the himalayas, completely alone, you'll still have to feel that shitty hair/bald scalp whenever you touch it. And you'll just know how bad it looks without even having a mirror.

 

[Señor AIDidaS]

These two things frustrate me even more than the actual hair loss.

1. Hair loss has no purpose and nobody can give an evolutionary explanation for it.
2. Those who suffer from male pattern baldness in the first part of their life are a minority. This alone should've classified it as a disease from day one of whenever the f*** it started to happen.

I just can't deal with these two things.

Question for you and everyone else in this thread. If you never lost your hair in your 20's and 30's, but you would for sure start to lose hair as soon as you turned 40, would you still be upset?

 

[hellouser]

Question for you and everyone else in this thread. If you never lost your hair in your 20's and 30's, but you would for sure start to lose hair as soon as you turned 40, would you still be upset?

Cancer patients in their 60s get upset about hair loss above all other things when going through chemo. I know this cuz a friend of mine at that age that did go through chemo said it was the worst part of it.

If you b**ch about hair loss even when you've got cancer to worry about, you'll b**ch about hair loss FOR SURE if you don't have cancer.

 

[hellouser]

the other incredible thing is that after millions and millions of bald men have walked this earth, not a single one of them was able to find a cure for this issue. How is that even possible? This is a disease that leaves you with your cognitive abilities intact, yet a resolution has not yet been found.

Because those that handout grants don't think it's a priority.

 

[Señor AIDidaS]

Because those that handout grants don't think it's a priority.

To be fair, the medical community has said the cure for cancer has been right around the corner since forever. Look how that's turned out.

On the other hand, the lack of significant investments is confusing. The person who's name is on the patent for the hair loss cure would never have to work again.

 

[swingline747]

. The person who's name is on the patent for the hair loss cure would never have to work again.

But then neither would anyone in the treatment field.......

 

[That Guy]

It's not relevant to hairloss that cancer has remained uncured.

The methods that guys like Tsuji are using have been expected to cure baldness since even before the first stem cell therapy via bone marrow transplant was done. It's just that hairloss isn't a priority and almost no one bothered to put a serious effort into using stem cells for baldness until now. Being c***-blocked by religious types, PETA and governments didn't help either. This sh*t could have been cured 20 years ago.

 

[Roberto_72]

the other incredible thing is that after millions and millions of bald men have walked this earth, not a single one of them was able to find a cure for this issue. How is that even possible? This is a disease that leaves you with your cognitive abilities intact, yet a resolution has not yet been found.

The problem is that the body does not think it is a disease. No antibodies are produced when you lose hair, you have no temperature, you have no pain and, most importantly, you do not die (except for: you die inside).

As you wrote before, there must be an evolutionary angle to baldness in the sense that nature thinks it is perfectly OK that some people have less hair from a certain point in life on: not everyone is supposed to be attractive (ugly men and women did not choose to be ugly either).

Maybe trying to stop hairloss is just like trying to grow a new limb. Unless you plant it yourself (as in a hair transplant or Tsuji), it makes no sense for the body.

Probably I exaggerated in this analogy, but I don't think there is any anti/cure conspiracy: it is just too difficult. So far.

 

[PappinAce]

The fact that baldness is so common makes me think that it could be related to early procreation; basically a long time ago people were having kids younger, so baldness was almost never a factor and the genes carried over. Now that people are having kids at a later age, together with the advent of Tinder and women being more self sufficient & independent, this is a more obvious issue.
The sad news is that it finally looks like Natural selection (or more accurately, sexual selection) is going to sort this problem out; unfortunately for us, we seem to be on the wrong side of that equation.

Yeah you nailed it. Natural selection doesn't give a sh*t about anything that happens after the mating age. You're born, you grow old enough to f***, and then you reproduce. Anything you do after that is irrelevant in nature's eyes.

People are mostly still f*****g in their teens and twenties though, so nothing is going to change. Nature will not "weed out" male pattern baldness from the gene pool. Because male pattern baldness people still have sex. Before they know they have male pattern baldness. Guess who gets that gene?

Now, if we develop a technology that can test for male pattern baldness, that might be a different story. When doctors can take a blood sample and say that you'll be NW3 by the age of 25, and tattoo that on your forehead as a warning sign to the ladies, then maybe the gene will be eliminated.

 

[That Guy]

For anyone alive today, stem cell therapies will likely be the only way to remedy the problem.

For future generations? Genetic Engineering.