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Balding is not vanity. It is a marker for serious health problems. Balding men are several times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, for example.

• na85 6y ago
  Are you suggesting that a cure for male pattern baldness would address heart disease?
  • klaudius 6y ago
    Yes. You can look up scientific papers linking balding with health issues. We know premenopausal women have much lower incidence of heart problems than men. Some ethnicities of men like east asians also have better heart health and incidentally have better hair than caucasian men.
    • jazoom 6y ago
      Correlation does not mean causation. I'd actually be very surprised if fixing the hair addressed any correlated heart disease. The hair would be a downstream symptom, almost certainly. I'm a doctor, if that makes a difference.
      • klaudius 6y ago
        It has been shown that finasteride, which is a systemic drug actually helps [1] with heart health. It's not that fixing hair would improve heart health, but that on a systemic level improving heart health could prevent balding. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25632043/
        • jazoom 6y ago
          The experiment you linked was on mice. Anyway, that's the opposite of what you said before. Treating heart to improve balding is not the same as treating balding to improve heart. And finasteride is not a cure for balding. At best it slows it, with variable results among different people.