Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?

As a long-time member of the bald brotherhood, I've got mixed feelings about this. On one hand, it's fascinating to see science finally fighting back against my hairline's slow but inevitable retreat. On the other, I've spent years perfecting the clean shave, embracing the low-maintenance lifestyle and enjoying the money saved on fancy shampoos. Not sure I'm ready to give all that up just yet.

Looks like they might be close to a generally available treatment. It says they&#x27;ve had successful human trials and they are expanding them<p>Also:<p>&gt; the scientists have co-founded a medical development company called Pelage Pharmaceuticals. Backed by Google Ventures, last year the company raised $16.4 million in funding to shepherd further trials and win official clearances

I had a hair transplant. Watched soap operas on a bed for 5 hours while they worked on me, and now I have hair like 80s Richard Dean Anderson. (Was nearly Patrick Stewart before.)<p>Until this treatment is ready I recommend what I did. :)

If the later trials succeed and this gets turned into a commercially-viable product, the amount of money this will generate is going to be nuts.

The majority of men can fully stop hair loss with oral finasteride.<p>Some need the stronger dutasteride for it.<p>Both medications are known to stop and even revert hair loss, but the real regrowth usually happens if you additionally take oral minoxidil.<p>I am on dut+min for years now.<p>Neither of those three is without side effects though and they can‘t revive „truly dead“ follicles, so this is great news.

What became of d-ribose?<p>Half a year ago this was praised in a similar way, if I remember correctly [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&#x2F;surprise-hair-loss-breakthrough-sugar-gel-triggers-robust-regrowth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&#x2F;surprise-hair-loss-breakthrough...</a>

Nuclear fusion, plastic-eating bacteria, male pattern baldness: all are pressing problems of our times whose solutions are always 20 years away. FWIW, I&#x27;ve come to terms with the last.

I’m fine with balding and baldness, but I do need a permanent color solution

It&#x27;s always disappointing when the subject of baldness comes up. It&#x27;s an unpleasant issue that affects men, and nobody takes it particularly seriously. The article (from the university that developed this even) use it as a place to make bad jokes about LA traffic.<p>Also kind of not great to see people in this thread with very over-confident but incorrect advice (just use oral finasteride - not saying it can&#x27;t help but it has side effects and isn&#x27;t a cure-all).<p>Believe me, before I struggled with it, I had all the same comments, like just cut it off etc. But you don&#x27;t really ever know how something will affect you until it happens.<p>If there are men, and it is mostly men, who are struggling with this in this thread I know it can really suck. I hope this treatment works and helps.

&quot;one-fourth of all women&quot;<p>is this a Americanese thing? It reads like a gross simplification of just saying &quot;a quarter&quot; which is quite jarring coming from a prestigious university.

Does Betteridge’s law of headlines apply here?

Wild. How about just, you know, normalizing hair loss as a part of life? Get things to the point where women don&#x27;t focus on what&#x27;s on a man&#x27;s head, but what&#x27;s in it. Would alleviate so many problems.

I guess it&#x27;s all a matter of perspective but having suffered from some very mild pain and lifelong depression and OCD, I would trade my thick ass 43-year old beautiful blond locks for some baldness if only to be free of my other ills. My point, and I know I have no right to, but when I see all these otherwise super healthy men spend so much time worried about their (lack of) hair, it&#x27;s hard to sympathize. But hey, everyone has a cross to bear I suppose.