I figured you guys would be most interested in this, seeing as it's one of the things that can cause a transman to hesitate regarding testosterone. (Though some of the girls might like this too.)

Testosterone plays a part, that's true, but apparently, the true "cause" of baldness is now found.

"The fact that there are normal numbers of stem cells in bald scalp gives us hope for reactivating those stem cells."

In other words... Experts hope to be able to reverse it.

Cool, right?

That's good to hear because I am already thinning - runs in my family & I haven't even started T yet

I've heard they were working on something with stem cells for a while now but it's good to hear an update!

Oh yay! 8D I don't want to be bald.

In the words of Veruca Salt, I want it now!

I can't tell whether my hair loss has slowed down. Some of it was just the usual hairline shift, and some of it is the receding hairline that seems to run in my family. BUT WHERE WILL IT END!!!!

This is great news, I'm secretly cacking my pants over the prospect of balding. I'm scared that even mentioning the word will somehow curse me and cause my hair to start falling out :[

Still, it's awesome that progess is being made! I be it's gonna be really expensive though...

Thanks for posting this, i'm really worried about going bald.

Quote from: Arch on January 14, 2011, 02:22:17 PM
In the words of Veruca Salt, I want it now!

I can't tell whether my hair loss has slowed down. Some of it was just the usual hairline shift, and some of it is the receding hairline that seems to run in my family. BUT WHERE WILL IT END!!!!

When it has shifted to the back of your head most likely and unfortunately. I'm headed in the same direction and thinking of investing in rogaine.

As far as life's little things go, baldness isn't too bad.  That being said, I'm dreading the possibility.  Let's hope this works out.

Quote from: LordKAT on January 15, 2011, 03:54:23 AM
When it has shifted to the back of your head most likely and unfortunately. I'm headed in the same direction and thinking of investing in rogaine.

If you have cats or pet rodents, don't get Rogaine--it's toxic to them. My nitty likes to head-bump me, so there was no WAY that I was smearing that stuff on my head. But apparently it's only used for top-of-the-head baldness--you know, the tonsure spot that monks used to shave off. For other types of hair loss, you need something else. That's why I'm taking the pills.

I don't think I'm going to go completely bald. My father and brother both have the same receding hairline that I've been getting. Unless having an XX messes me up, I expect to wind up like both of them.

Quote from: Arch on January 15, 2011, 06:19:52 PM
If you have cats or pet rodents, don't get Rogaine--it's toxic to them. My nitty likes to head-bump me, so there was no WAY that I was smearing that stuff on my head. But apparently it's only used for top-of-the-head baldness--you know, the tonsure spot that monks used to shave off. For other types of hair loss, you need something else. That's why I'm taking the pills.

I don't think I'm going to go completely bald. My father and brother both have the same receding hairline that I've been getting. Unless having an XX messes me up, I expect to wind up like both of them.

Thanks for the advice. I have no pets with me but I have good friends who do that I visit often. Perhaps I will not use it on days I go there and hope the intermittent use is some help.  Or get a new GF.

This is a huge step forward. I hope they managed to roll out a solution based on this work soon.

Thankfully my T is low so I'm not going bald as such - but my hair is undoubtedly sparser all over than it was when I was twenty simply because my metabolism is aging. I, and many other older women would LOVE to recover my youthful thick lustrous hair.

Low metabolism can cause you to lose hair?

Yep - it sure can - it's the biggest cause of hair thinning in women like me of a "certain age".

For both sexes, only about one third of your hair is actually in the telogenic growth phase at any one time. The rest is either sleeping or regenerating. If you slow down the cycle then that hair which is "growing" has to survive longer before it gets renewed by other follicles waking from the resting phase - and as hair continues to be lost through damage and normal shedding at the same rate - this slower replenishment cycle effectively results in less hair being actually visible at any one time.

Now what I would really like is, if the cause of baldness could be switched from the top of the head to the face and chest!

I really wouldn't mind losing all the hair there.

Whoever decided only to affect the top of the head was having a laugh.

Quote from: spacial on January 16, 2011, 10:07:05 AM
Now what I would really like is, if the cause of baldness could be switched from the top of the head to the face and chest!

I really wouldn't mind losing all the hair there.

Whoever decided only to affect the top of the head was having a laugh.

that would be cool no more burning face and genital electro >_< just a mild facial scrub.

Ironically spacial it's women who decided that men should loose there hair... as loosing your hair serves no survival purpose only a social one. it's a sexually selected trait like most dismorphic characteristics. Curse those stone age women!

it's women who decided that men should loose there hair.

Actually short hair on men, and short beards, or preferably no beards, arose from military necessities and the reality of hand to hand fighting. 

It's pretty cool news.  Baldness doesn't bother me that much - I mean sure I'd look different but I'd just get used to it and I know plenty of very sexy bald guys.  I think a receding hairline, before it has receded too far is actually the sexiest thing ever. 

Still I reckon I'd be pretty happy to keep all my hair.  So it's good news.  Anyone understand how come stuff like Finasteride works when the 'cause' appears not to have as much to do with the 'wrong' kinda testosterone?