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"Baldness" (male pattern baldness) has been reported to
relent with, regrowth of the hair- after the bald guy received
immune suppression therapy.
If research can show that the immune response was to the
presence of demodex mites in the androgen-addled
sebaceous glands of the hair follicles
that were affected,
perhaps removal of the demodex mites could prevent/cure
baldness.
I would do this research myself but lack volunteers, and
anyway I am busy watching reruns of Simpsons.
Demodex has been considered "normal" for many many
years, but that is simply typical of "medicine"- doctors
consider anything not proven pathologic to be "normal", even
though in some it seems more normal than in others.
Currently there are few good drug treatments for human
parasites- and the "good" ones are often very toxic to
humans. Especially the drugs taken internally.
Bio-treatment? Maybe someone with less arachnophobia
than I can breed a spider that feeds on these mites- roaming
around and devouring the larva and adults! volunteers?
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Have you tried Finasteride? Its a drug meant for
prostate problems but it has been shown to stop
hairloss in 90% of
men it works by reducing the production of a certain
kind of testosterone. |
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Ive found it works, but but its not without side
effects.. |
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Have you got references for the claim that immune
suppression causes hair regrowth? |
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Interesting idea, though, that immune responses to
common mites causes baldness. |
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Perhaps move this from Other:General to Science:Health:Symbiotic Relationship ? |
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Baldness is a noble attribute of manliness. |
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Men who are not bald, are jealous. |
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//Men who are not bald, are jealous.// |
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Men who are bald at the front are great thinkers.
Men who are bald on top are great lovers. Men who
are bald all over just think they're great lovers. |
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I just thought it's an environmental adaptation to global warming, more exposed scalp=easier to stay cool.. |
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...and all of us save hundreds on barber fees over you follicular over-achievers.
HUNDREDS I say! muhahahahahaha |
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To make baldness normal, don't cure it, instead make baldness so fashionable that everyone will do it. And naturally bald people will be envied. |
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It could happen. We've mostly done it for genitals. |
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More exposed scalp also equals more reflectivity
which cools the earth more. |
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"Cure Baldness" ? It's not a disease. It's freedom. |
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//Have you got references for the claim that immune
suppression causes hair regrowth? // |
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I don't have a reference, but a colleague who went to a
conference earlier in the month mentioned a talk where
a
chemical with immunosuppressive effect also caused hair
growth. They'd made a derivative with just the latter, so
it is apparently an independent effect. Perhaps it's that,
which got garbled somewhere along the way.
I'll see if I can track
it down. |
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I have read that certain birds land on anthills and
remain there, the ants swarming into the feathers
and feasting upon the parasitic burden therein.
This same approach could be used against the
mites, and might also be useful against dandruff. |
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I am a little concerned that the mites might be
well lodged and greased in, and so impervious to
the ants without a lot of digging. |
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The problem is a control group. If one could
somehow expose only half of the scalp to the
ants, each person could be his own internal
control. |
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