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Hey i’m 16 years old and suffer from traction alopecia. I have very bad bald spots on my head but i manage to cover them with my horrible hairstyle. But if the wind blows or i wear a hat or it rains you can see all my bald spots and trust me it looks very bad. So i was wondering if they made any new advances in hair loss? It’s destroying my self esteem i cant even go outside anymore or swimming which was my favorite sport.

If you have androgenic alopecia nothing will grow your hair back, maybe in the future with the new treatments that scientist are developing.
But if you suffer from traction alopecia, you must investigate the cause of the traction and your hair will grow naturally

Experts say they have discovered what they believe is the cause of male pattern baldness.

It is not simply a lack of hair, but rather a problem with the new hair that is made.

A manufacturing defect means the hair produced is so small it appears invisible to the naked eye, giving the classic bald spot or receding hairline.

The US team told the Journal of Clinical Investigation the fault lies with the stem cells that make new hair.

It may be possible to ‘cure’ male baldness by restoring the normal function of these cells, the experts hope.

Ultimately, they hope to be able to develop a cream that could be applied to the scalp to help the stem cells grow normal hair.

Using men undergoing hair transplants as guinea pigs, the University of Pennsylvania team compared hair follicles in bald patches and hairy areas of the scalp.

Although bald areas had the same number of hair-making stem cells as normal scalp, there were fewer of a more mature type, called the progenitor cell.

This difference means that hair follicles in bald patches shrink rather than disappear and the new hairs made are microscopic compared to normal hair.

Dr George Cotsarelis who led the research said: "This implies that there is a problem in the activation of stem cells converting progenitor cells in bald scalp.

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

Until now it has been unclear what the exact cause of male pattern baldness is, but experts believe the male hormone testosterone is involved and baldness also tends to run in families.

A certain amusing UK-trained osteopath was busted recently for falsely claiming to be a doctor (he protests: "I only use the title occasionally").

To deflect criticism, he charges that skeptics mock only obsolete osteopathic treatments. As usual, he’s missed the point. The object is to demonstrate osteopaths’ continuing inadequate criteria for evidence. Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of Osteopathy, claimed, for example, to absolutely cure yellow fever, malaria, diphtheria, rickets, piles, diabetes, dandruff, constipation and obesity, all through physical manipulation. He also claimed absolutely to be able to grow 3" of hair on a bald head in one week, also through physical osteopathic manipulation.

So, was Still lying, or was he delusional? Which is it? Probably both. Still was widely judged (even by his own family) of being mentally ill. Almost all the biographical data in Still’s highly amusing autobiography has been found false or grossly exaggerated (this seems to be a common pattern among osteopaths…).

The point is, delusion and sloppy standards of evidence are regular characteristics of UK-pattern osteopathy even today. Take, for example, today’s Cranial Osteopathy (or its close cousin craniosacral therapy, or several other variations). Practitioners, (such as our bogus "doctor") convince themselves they can place their fingers on a patient’s skull and command brain fluids to change direction, this "facilitating" some vaguely positive change in the body. Cranial osteopaths claim TODAY to treat the following diseases with cranial osteopathic skull feel-ups:
allergy, arthritis, asthma, autism, birth trauma, bone disorders, bronchitis, cerebral palsy, colic, depression, digestive problems, dyslexia, hormonal imbalance, impotence, infertility, rheumatism, spinal curvature, stroke, cancer, and many other diseases.
(Incidentally, the Advertising Standards body of the UK recently told them to stop making these bogus claims).

So what do responsible (mostly USA-based) Osteopaths think of Cranial Osteopathy and its variants? Two professors at University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine:

"Our own and previously published findings suggest that the proposed mechanism for cranial osteopathy is invalid and that interexaminer (and, therefore, diagnostic) reliability is approximately zero. Since no properly randomized, blinded, and placebo-controlled outcome studies have been published, we conclude that cranial osteopathy should be removed from curricula of colleges of osteopathic medicine and from osteopathic licensing examinations".

Osteopathy, as practiced in the UK (and unfortunately among too many USA-based osteopaths) remains deeply quacky and delusional. So, if as some osteopaths claim, A. T. Still was not a liar, do they believe osteopathic manipulation can cure baldness?

Lightning, after all that you didn’t answer the question. Do osteopaths believe osteopathic manipulation can cure baldness?

I have a personal interest…

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EDIT: @Goodhealth Surfing, no – that wasn’t the question buddy. In any case I don’t see any claims here that ‘conventional’ medicine can cure baldness, so you are setting up a strawman and that is NOT the logic used in the skeptical process. FAIL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Is laser treatment suitable/effective for male pattern baldness when you are on propecia ?What is your opinion on hair transplant ? Yesterday i saw this article that there will be a new drug coming to repair stem cells in bald area.
Only thing i might have to wait 10 years .

Propecia shouldn’t have a negative effect on possible hair growth from laser restoration methods.

http://hairmax.com/google%5Fsavingsoffer/?gclid=CK-f56DCqqYCFQTNKgodDCfOog

http://www.docshop.com/education/dermatology/hair-loss/non-surgical/laser

Good luck.

I realize baldness is low on the priority list for cures but come on

Although there has been nothing about a cure in any of the latest skin journals, an interesting point that possibly will occur in the future is the use of skin stem cells to cure baldness. Although the skin stem cells have been shown to be able to produce nerve, liver and skin cells, no one yet has done the research to regrow hair using these cells (but it’s fairly obvious that it will be able to do so). However, there is more grant money in being able to use those cells for more serious medical conditions, so, until harvesting skin stem cells becomes a normal event, you’ll have to wait for this "projected cure".

What I mean by "paying money for the rest of my life" is that there are lots of hair growth treatments that PROBABLY work, but, even if they do work, I would have to pay for them the rest of my life, because they do not last forever. They are temporary. I could pay for surgery, and that would last forever, but it is extremely expensive. One place charges you $6,000 for either a surgery or surgeries. I do not know if it takes more than one surgery to cure baldness forever.

Shave your head.

A confident man with a shaved head is much sexier to women than a guy with a toupee, plugs or any other fake hair who is worried about his appearance all the time.

Male patten baldness that is….
Are hair treatment companies i.e regain, stopping research for this??

Iv’e read articles saying we’re about 5 to 10yrs away from a cure through hair cloning