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The celebrity chef was pictured earlier this month looking so puffy that his eyes were almost hidden beneath the swelling.

He now claims this was just down to a "horrific" infection and an allergic reaction to a horse.

Ramsay blames horse for 'hair nightmare' | Herald Sun

I'm not wasting 'all my money' at all.

But you are. You're giving up your option to ever cut your hair shorter than a given length again (without displaying a linear scar), and you're committing yourself to additional future procedures to keep up as your hair loss continues.

If I continue to lose hair I'll still have plenty of grafts from my donor hair for extra procedures I may need down the road. I know I'm young and don't know the pattern of my hair loss ...

If you don't know the pattern of your future hair loss, you can't definitively state that you'll "still have plenty of grafts from donor hair for extra procedures."

I guess I feel that with propecia and I can stall any future fair loss for the next little while

Keep in mind that Propecia is not a magic bullet. It doesn't work for everyone, its results are variable, and at best it only slows hair loss (it doesn't stop it completely). You can't know how well it's going to work for you long-term after having taken it for just seven months.

But I don't get why people want young people to wait and feel ostracized when there's practical solutions to remedy how they feel. It doesn't make sense to me.

It's kind of like asking why you shouldn't spend all your money right now on stuff you enjoy instead of saving any of it for the future. Your circumstances will likely be very different in the future in ways you can't anticipate, and you'll find yourself regretting that you blew everything chasing ephemeral pleasures to the sacrifice of long-term happiness and stability.

What concerns me is the cost. For example, if they do find a way to clone hairs for transplantation, that means there will more than likely be a wildly expensive addition to the already high cost of hair transplantation.

Possibly, but certainly "available but very expensive" is a much better situation than "not available at all." And the first step to affordability is necessarily availability.

I am not a fan of the term "illusion of density" but I gues it is what it is. I thing a transplant is an improvement on whatever a person had when done correctly.

Indeed. One thing you need to keep in mind is that there are many men with thinning hair who still look reasonably good because their remaining native hair (although decreased in quantity and/or quality) is still providing an "illusion of density." There's nothing inherently wrong or bad with creating that same result through transplantation, as long as it's done with care to make the result appear as natural as possible.

You know what must be worse? It's those guys that have a great head of hair all their lives and then they hit a certain point in their mid 50's or so and start to thin out. It must be a shock-- all their adult lives they've taken it for granted that they've got good hair-- balding happens to "other guys". Then WHAM! This I think must be worse than losing it gradually.

My own hair loss wasn't noticeable to me until right before I turned 50. And yeah, until then I was thinking to myself, "I made it this far; I'm going to be one of those lucky ones who dies with a full head of hair."

Still, I'm glad I had it as long as I did rather than starting to lose it in my 20s or 30s.

Get it fue'd, oh and track down the surgeon and destroy him.

As the article says, "I'd love to sue the surgeon but the clinic has closed down."

Are you referring to general malpractice on the part of this doctor, or one specific case?

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My understanding, and I know this is contentious, is that MPB is an auto-immune disease as the body is attacking and destroying healthy cells. I would, and do, question what it is that I am doing in my lifestyle that causes this situation.

Since MPB has been in evidence for thousands of years, long before the advent of processed foods, man-made chemicals, air/water/soil pollution, etc., the lifestyle changes you'd have to make to avoid it would likely involve using a time machine and living in a cave.

Nasal surgeons usually don't post pictures of their work in progress with the collumella cut and the nose pulled up.

But the point was that the original poster in this thread said "anyone considering an HT should look at a photo of this so they know exactly what's being done to them." If that applies to HTs, then it should apply to all other forms of surgery as well.

You could say the same thing about nearly every kind of surgery -- everything from appendectomies to nose jobs can look just as gruesome, if not more so. You need to focus on the result, not the process.

I asked one of the top HT doctors frequently mentioned here whether in his practice techs placed the grafts or he did the placement himself. He said that techs do all the placement because "they're much better at it than I am."

There's a forum called immortalhair that touches thoroughly on this topic and has the research to back up these claims.

And there are plenty of forums that touch thoroughly on the topic that the U.S. government perpetrated the 9/11 attacks and have the research to back up their claims. Most of us have a higher standard for what constitutes "research," though.

The perfect diet can eliminate MPB.

And if you believe that, the folks at Immortal Hair are happy to sell you their "Immortal Hair Supplement Line" for "natural hair regrowth."

What is funny is that MPB increased in their country though after WW2 when the western diet was introduced to them.

Japanese life expectancy increased by an astounding 13.7 years in the decade immediately following World War II. So just maybe an alleged post-war increase in MPB might have had something to do with a lot more men living long enough to experience it rather than dying before its onset.

MPB is a sign of premature aging.

Uh, not so. If that were the case, then men who experience MPB earlier in life would also commonly be exhibiting other signs of aging atypical for men of their age.

Look at the symptoms of a young MPB'er and look at the Symptoms of a 60 year old with MPB. They are remarkably the same.

Beyond the patently obvious symptom (i.e., loss of hair), what other commonality is there between the two?

Heck look at old movies of people in the 40's, 50's, 60's... Not that many people were going bald under the age of 30

Right, it couldn't possibly be the case that bald(ing) actors typically wore toupees.

I firmly believe that in many cases mpb presents itself earlier than what is natural because of these factors I have just mentioned.

If that were the case, then one should expect to see an increased incidence of MPB and/or a progressively earlier onset age of MPB across time. As far as I know, no data demonstrates this to be true.

The site owner experienced severe hair loss on a vegetarian diet, then switched to a meat heavy diet that excluded sugar, white flour, and all processed food, and saw his hairloss stop completely

In the absence of controlled studies, all such anecdotal reports are simply versions of confirmation bias, akin to maintaining that an absence of tigers demonstrates that snapping one's fingers is an effective method of keeping them away.

I live in southern california.

I'd go see Dr. Alexander in Phoenix, which is a short plane flight or a day's drive from SoCal.

Strange, I know, but still worth mentioning: paranoia is contagious!

Indeed. I think that if prospective patients did as much research before all medical procedures as they typically do before hair transplants, they'd probably never have any kind of surgery again. You can find horror stories about every medical treatment, but you have to keep in mind how (un)representative of the general outcome they might be and what steps you can take to minimize the possibilities of experiencing them.

It's old scare stuff based on 1980s-era Bosley HT factories. If you do your research to become an informed patient and choose a reputable hair restoration surgeon with an established track record, virtually nothing on that site need concern you.

At this point, the best that one can accurately say is that it's potentially a start. The press release doesn't provide enough information to make any more realistic an assessment.

I wish I'd said that. Oh, wait, I did.

I simply would not have undergone the procedure if I had known just exactly how much discomfort it would have been.

What discomfort, specifically? Post-operative pain? Scalp tightness? The difficulty of having to protect the grafts for the first couple of weeks?

you better believe that we NEVER will see the final cure simply because this industry is making billions from stupid people like us

Ah, but this is where capitalism works for you. The companies that market hair loss treatments (not cures) have to share the profit pie; the company that develops a hair loss cure gets to eat the whole pie.

Wow, an article based on a non-random sample of one. That's some pretty impressive scientific reporting.