Hair-Raising Science
Need a lush mustache? Cosmetic surgeons in Turkey now offer mustache transplants so you can channel your inner Tom Selleck. Performed under local anesthetic, the surgery takes five hours and costs up to $5,000. A leading surgeon from Istanbul’s Beverly Hills says, “The mustache is making a comeback. If a man’s mustache doesn’t grow, he wants to know he can have one as a mark of masculinity”. For the full story ▶ http://goo.gl/3Q450
For the Follicly Challenged: Serendipitous science has stumbled on some solutions. For example, the hair loss drug Minoxidil was being used to treat high blood pressure when it was discovered that patients were growing unusual amounts of hair. Similarly, UCLA researchers experimenting with stress-induced bald mice injected them with the compound Astressin B (a blocker of corticotropin releasing factor receptors) only to discover that the mice grew luxurious coats of hair. Read the paper ▶ http://goo.gl/NROUm We don’t yet know if we can go from stresses to tresses in humans, although trials are on the way. Hair follicles also contain stem cells and these could hold the key to our hirsute pursuit. Did you know that castration prevents baldness? ▶ http://goo.gl/FzAzd It is true that baldness is dependent on testosterone and it has been argued that bald men are more virile. Sean Connery would testify to that 😉
#ScienceEveryday H/T to Jeff Brown for the mustache story 🙂
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Very interesting … hm…
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Whew! Now I can spend that $5,000 on something more useful, like my Medicare deductibles…
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Haha, love the ‘stache in the emoticon!
I had never noticed it before.
never been an issue for me
Great ‘staches, William McGarvey and Rich Fisher 🙂
You too, al pistacchio ?
People can spend the same or more for hair implants, nose job, breast augmentation, liposuction, you name it. Or, for that matter, designer clothing or accessories. The way you look, the way you’re perceived by others, is critically important to most people; why not spend on this if that’s something you find important. At least it will last longer than a designer suit or the latest in handbag fashion.
Yes, it all comes down to personal choices, Jan Moren .
just hinted… not so good as William McGarvey and Rich Fisher’s mustache ;o)
Yessiree, al pistacchio — let it go wildly for forty or more years, and you, too, can look like Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo, a television idol for children): http://goo.gl/WUosm . (That was a sobering insight for me when I glanced in the mirror one day.)
My husband tried several times to sprout a ‘stache. He ended up sporting a despondent caterpillar on his upper lip. He couldn’t stand my cheering it on, so he got rid of it 😉
lol, I have never seen Jeffreys upper lip!
Rajini Rao Maybe if you tried feeding it lettuce? 🙂
Rajini Rao and William McGarvey growing mustache is an art… not for everybody 😦 :D))
Oh, my Mother had the talent for one, all right… < snort >
When I was little, I was sure my Mom was Syrian.
Once again, it’s all in the
jeansgenes 🙂Y , oh Y do I ask? Genes, you say? I already have my Y …
Hehe Blue Gene/M
Y you ex your X, gentlemen? I see your X and double it!
I never thought of you as a “double-crosser”, R² …
Speaking of genetic heritage, I have the Calder family eyebrows that are capable being used for unassisted flight. My wife makes sure the barber trims them. Luckily I married her prior to “the sprouting of the eyebrows”.
And then there’s Andy: http://goo.gl/XoRKD
A friend who works on stem cells mentioned something about the anagen (growing) phase of hair being genetically defined. That’s why some people have longer hair, whether on eyebrows or elsewhere.
Maybe it’s male manopause 😀
I dunno. My grandfather didn’t get married and start a family until he was around 60 – my age.
I took a leaf from our 16th president’s book (as recently portrayed by Daniel Day Lewis) and went for a negative ‘stache 🙂
Say, Rajini Rao a question… you wrote: “It is true that baldness is dependent on testosterone and it has been argued that bald men are more virile. Sean Connery would testify to that ;)” Hmm… and how, may I ask, do you know that he would? 😉
I see, John Christopher , you have the goatee down to a tee 🙂
You caught me playing loose with words again. As long as you’re teasing, not testing me I won’t get testy about testifying on testosterone.
So – to stop my hair loss all I have to do is to lose my manhood –
Hmmm – Nah.
@ Rajini: tsk tsk 🙂
Good call, David Andrews 🙂
Speaking of Testosterone… http://goo.gl/CRC8G
(The “Offspring” comment brought back memories 🙂
My sister-in-law is vacationing in Germany and just posted a comment saying she saw a moustache that was two feet across. With a man attached.
it’s Sean Connery not Tom Sellick.
Also saw this funny article on WSJ yesterday! 🙂
Nyc dear funny
Rajastani rajput men sport weirdly long and luscious mustache, i wonder what they do to keep it growing
LOL!
Ahahaha …. lucky me that can spend the $5,000 on some thing else instead … ^^
Enjoy your week the best Rajini Rao … =D
You forgot the cover the grey hair cure: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-gray-hair-vitiligo-reversed-root.html
Paper: http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2013/04/29/fj.12-226779
As I understand it, it’s a pseudocatalase they researched the past two decades, but adapted to it’s easier to apply and target a specific area (it’s UV activated). See for example, from 1995: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7599386
Word of the day: “manopause” – Pause for thought. 🙂
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Been there, done that. But thanks anyway.
U can help me how to plat hair bcs of i loss lot of my hair
A demonstration of the reason more money is spent on hair therapy research than malaria research 😉
Henk Poley , you know how fleeting funds are: hair today, gone tomorrow 🙂
That’s a pretty bald assertion, Rajini Rao.
I’m afraid sequestration has cut off more than dead ends 😦
I could argue with you, but let’s not split hairs.
gud
Nice