[HN Gopher] Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair lo...
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Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis?
(2021)
Author : yamrzou
Score : 43 points
Date : 2022-07-29 16:58 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (perfecthairhealth.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (perfecthairhealth.com)
| seibelj wrote:
| nafix wrote:
| Sure, but what if you have a good personality, fit body, stable
| career, _and_ good hair. I don't think it's particularly
| shallow to do a hair transplant.
| apurtbapurt wrote:
| Of course it is shallow. But it can be OK anyway. A bit of
| vanity is present in most of us. You don't need to fight it,
| it is fine to embrace vanity as a hobby or profession.
|
| If the baldness goes beyond being a minor nag in your vanity
| though, and you start believing that regrowing your hair is
| truly essential to your happiness and wellbeing, you should
| perhaps seek professional help for your mind rather than your
| scalp.
| scrollaway wrote:
| Define shallow?
|
| Is it shallow to get a haircut? To keep a well trimmed
| beard? To wear clothes without holes in them?
| freetime2 wrote:
| I think it's possible to be all of those things, and to be in a
| healthy relationship, and still want to prevent/fix baldness.
| seibelj wrote:
| Sure but it's healthier to try and accept things you can't
| control. I think a lot of people who obsess over losing their
| hair see it as a reason their life isn't going the way they
| want. You would do yourself a favor by accepting reality and
| moving on in healthier and more productive ways.
|
| You can control being a fat slob. You can't control being
| bald in the vast majority of cases.
| feet wrote:
| The article is about a hair loss treatment. Not sexual
| attraction
| googlryas wrote:
| But you can control baldness with a few thousand dollars.
| magic_hamster wrote:
| I tend to agree when talking about men, in general. But for
| women the meaning of hair can be much deeper. So it's good
| this is being researched.
|
| For balding men, it's a great idea to accept it and work on
| yourself in other ways. It's also a great idea not to judge
| people based on their hair. I sort of agree that if you
| want to get a transplant you're probably making up for
| insecurities.
|
| But if it makes you feel better, go ahead. No pun intended!
| saltylicorice wrote:
| I think this is quite dismissive and unnecessary. Suppose that
| someone wants to change their appearance for their own sake?
| jstx1 wrote:
| Yeah, no, none of those are a cure for baldness. They might
| make you more attractive, and if that's your primary concern
| about being bald, then great, you've found a way to compensate.
| But you'll still be super bald regardless of your personality,
| career and physical shape. And also you won't be as attractive
| as you could be with better hair.
|
| The model is something like: attractiveness =
| personality + career + physical shape + hair + ...
|
| (each one of them with some weight coefficient)
|
| The point is to figure out what parts you can/want to improve
| and to accept the ones you can't, not to pretend that advancing
| your career fixes your baldness.
| collegeburner wrote:
| tbh i think there's a special element on baldness but i dont
| know why. but we haven't elected a bald president since TV
| (when we rly started seeing them lots) even tho we've elected
| ppl who aren't otherwise as handsome so that says smth.
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| America's bald presidents:
|
| * John Adams
|
| * John Quincy Adams
|
| * Van Buren
|
| * Garfield
|
| * Eisenhower
|
| * Ford (not elected)
|
| Some good ones in there. Maybe we could use a baldheaded
| president about now. Who are the contenders?
| collegeburner wrote:
| > since TV
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| I think you misunderstood my comment. I wasn't trying to
| correct anything, just listing them.
| braingravy wrote:
| 100%. On the flip side; Self acceptance is key to sustained
| personal happiness.
| mauvehaus wrote:
| Shave your head and grow a goatee?
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-E2B5GfI8
| atum47 wrote:
| My DHT is high right now and I'm not making use on any substance
| that could increase it. I feel my hair is thinning every day, I'm
| in the process of investigating why, with my doctor. But if
| anyone here happens to be an expert I would love to hear their
| take on this matter.
| throwaway378037 wrote:
| It is a marketing website for a paid coaching/membership program
| stall84 wrote:
| I need more news on things like this .. (help..)
| mancerayder wrote:
| Like a Haircker News? That would be great.
| collegeburner wrote:
| r/tressless
|
| theres some on r/moreplatesmoredates but thats more pharma
| oriented
| aszantu wrote:
| there was something about mice growing their hair back with
| something,
| https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/1...
| also some facebook groups with keto and zero carb report that
| they're less stressed when eating that way. Some also reported
| that they lost all their hair first, but then it came back
| healthier and stronger over the course of 1-2 years.
| aszantu wrote:
| https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.
| ..
| [deleted]
| NonNefarious wrote:
| What is "tension hair?"
| drpgq wrote:
| Would Elon Musk have been as successful without a hair
| transplant?
| shawnz wrote:
| well, Jeff Bezos didn't seem to need one
| aschearer wrote:
| This is the sort of news that keeps me coming back to Hacker
| News...
| moffkalast wrote:
| What, it's not the 27547th blog post about Rust being good at
| something?
| fartcannon wrote:
| Or a post that's about the cloud, and the follow up "You
| Don't Need The Cloud" post?
| aschearer wrote:
| I wish we were discusssing programming languages or technical
| problem solving! This is sub-Facebook level.
| Dylan16807 wrote:
| Discovering how organs work is sub-facebook?
| Narretz wrote:
| This article and website is very interesting. As far as laid out
| here, the DHT theory of hair loss doesn't actually say why DHT is
| overexpressed, it usually is explained with "genetics". If the
| scalp-tension theory is fundamental for hair loss, it might just
| be a level deeper: many men (and women) have a genetic
| disposition for scalp tension. But apparently this is something
| you can combat manually to a degree.
| collegeburner wrote:
| i mean understanding the endocrine system is hard. theres a lot
| of reasons why diff ppl got diff levels of hormones. so
| everybody's like "genetics" but really it can also be lifestyle
| factors (diet sleep exercise alcohol whatever) with also
| genetics.
|
| btw antiandrogens also are good evidence against tension
| theory, they can legit restore some hair in places where it was
| lost, see ru58841.
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