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Reverse baldness by pulling hair out - C C - Apr 9, 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3032255/At-cure-baldness-Scientists-discover-regrow-hair-long-prepared-pull-first.html
EXCERPT: At last, a cure for baldness! Scientists discover how to regrow hair (as long as you're prepared to pull it all out first). Study: When 200 hairs are plucked, up to six times as many grow back. For technique to work, all of the hairs must be taken from one small patch. Theory is that if enough hairs are forcibly removed from one area, it triggers a distress signal - and extra hair is grown to compensate....
RE: Reverse baldness by pulling hair out - stryder - Apr 12, 2015
I did wonder initially if this was an april fools gone awry. If someone is "bald", where exactly would you pull the hair for it to grow back?
RE: Reverse baldness by pulling hair out - C C - Apr 13, 2015
(Apr 12, 2015 05:45 PM)stryder Wrote: I did wonder initially if this was an april fools gone awry. If someone is "bald", where exactly would you pull the hair for it to grow back?
A cure for "balding" would have been better for their original title, but I guess that would go against a maxim in science media to "pique the interest of readers": Nine ways scientists demonstrate they don't understand journalism
RE: Reverse baldness by pulling hair out - elte - Apr 13, 2015
I'm reminded of the old notion that shaving makes facial hair grow back thicker.
RE: Reverse baldness by pulling hair out - Magical Realist - May 14, 2015
"One lucky mouse sported new 1,300 hairs, including some outside the plucked patch, the journal Cell reports."
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I'm right on the verge of duct taping my bald areas and pulling out the hairs. What have I got to lose? I'm pretty much bald there anyway! Stipulation: does duct tape really uproot the hairs? Or does it just tear them?
RE: Reverse baldness by pulling hair out - Magical Realist - May 14, 2015
"However, any men thinking of experimenting on themselves should note that the hairs were plucked one by one.
And results are far from guaranteed.
It seems that the chemical signal needs to be just the right strength for the trick to work.
If the hairs are taken from too big an area, the signal is weakened and no hairs grow back.
And if the plucked patch is too small, the missing hair is replaced but no extra hairs grow."
Oh well..It was a nice dream while it lasted..