I'm sick and tired of hearing that baldness is fine and we should accept it and do nothing about it because it's natural and pharmaceutical companies shouldn't spend so much money on research in this area and blah blah blah.

Hair loss is a condition that drastically affects a person's self esteem and quality of life. It causes stress, depression and anxiety. Suicidal thoughts are not uncommon. Only the hirsute find baldness funny - for those who suffer from it, it's no laughing matter.

So, no, I don't think it's immoral that billions and billions are spent in this research (these findings will be valuable for the treatment of other conditions, e.g. skin cancer) and yes, I sincerely hope that pharmaceutical companies keep investing their money and come up with a cure.

I couldn't agree more with you Flavio. As the naysayers seldom suffer from it themselves so it's easy for them to dismiss it as vain to want to restore it. They only see it from the aesthetic point of view, and not the emotional affect it can have on a persons self esteem and ultimately their life in general.

Flavio, I also don't find it immoral to spend the amount that's being spent on a hair loss cure even if in the research process they don't find a cure for cancer cuz the researchers are busy doing that anyways. Tell whomever says "it's natural" about balding that so is bad eyesight and appendicitis and vomit and cancer. Maybe we should just let that go too. Aesthetics and beauty are at the very top of my list for getting up in the morning and add so much to living so continue improving and striving toward your hair loss goals!

I agree with you Flavio, all kinds of no good thoughts in your head. Lets just hope that they don't give up on us and that they find it soon before we have grand kids. I still want to get compliments til the day I die. My father has good genes,so he always looks 20 years younger and he is 80 with still hair. Thats sad for me!!

I wouldn't worry about it. The free market will create incentives for companies to study baldness treatments. Powerful ones.

The thing stopping a cure is scientific difficulty, not people thinking it is immoral.

Thank you. We are not a socialist state (yet). Companies are free to pursue profit, as that is *precisely* what companies do. There is potentially huge profit to be had here. That in itself is justification. It's sad when this has to be stated out loud. Once upon a time this was common sense. Plus, just because money goes to baldness treatment does NOT mean money is NOT going to other things as well.

Stimpy

We have had many posts to the subject and in my opinion, we live in a vain world. Take a look at the shampoo, makeup, or hygene section of any drug store. Looking youthful & good is very important to people. I think as long as you don't get obsessed with it, this is a natural repsonse to society

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Hairloss clearly isnt what was meant to happen to male humans. We were the main hunter gatherers, so we needed hair to protect our heads. It doesnt seem like enough time has passed for evolution to determine that we dont need hair anymore.

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Hi Flavio, I think market forces are such that pharmaceutical companies who find a solution for hair loss would be like finding every goldmine in the world simultaneously, it just seems like a hard problem to crack.

Interestingly enough there is also a good argument on health grounds to find a cure because bald men suffer more heart attacks.

As for self esteem, wow....the number of entries on forums from men who just feel terrible about themselves because of hair loss is incredible. Yet there are also men around who don't care, or have much more important things in their life to consider.

Feeling good about yourself regardless of your hair loss is important. You are all you have got, so you might as well try to think good things about yourself, hating yourself is going into self-destruct mode. I like this article about feeling good about yourself which is well worth reading http://www.prohairbiosystems.c...od-And-Feeling-Good/

The men who don't care about hair loss are often in a stable relationship with a partner who likes/loves them and the hair loss is just part of getting old. Other men are quite powerful, wealthy or influential or others just have a good opinion of themselves regardless. Let's face it if you had a nasty disease, say pneumonia, and you were talking to a doctor about a treatment, you wouldn't care less whether he was bald or not!!!

The person who cares most about being bald is you, surprisingly most other people just accept you for what you are.

Good thread, these questions are always interesting.

If someone is 50 yrs old, and feels existentially ruined because he doesn't have a NW1 hairline, and feels it's a virtual "right" that he get his hair fully restored, is it shallow? I still don't think so in and of itself, but there is certainly a different dynamic in play than for a 20 yr NW5 who feels the dire need, compulsion, and deserving of restored hair.

At the same time, "20 yr old NW5s" exist who simply move on from the issue with relative ease; does this make the other 20yr NW5 shallow, or have a degree of shallow that the former doesnt possess.

Ultimately, I believe MPB is intimately connected to one's virility, masculinity, and thus the very existence of a modern man. From this, I don't believe any hairloss sufferer is "shallow" in and of itself for wanting their hair restored.

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