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McDonald’s Fries For Hair Loss: Huge Hair-Transplant Breakthrough Missed By Adorably-Crazy Internet People

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

McDonald’s Fries For Hair Loss: Huge Hair-Transplant Breakthrough Missed By Adorably-Crazy Internet People
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McDonald’s Fries For Hair Loss? Why Not?:
Hair-loss is a touchy subject.

And short of over-the-counter remedies that have some real shortcomings,

There doesn’t seem to be the perfect solution that people need right now.

And according to HairLossBuddy, the best non-drug solution so far has been freeze-dried saw palmetto berries or Beta-Sitosterol.

So that being said, you can forgive people for trying to latch-on to just about anything they can find.

That includes mistaking a scientific breakthrough for a license to make a hat out of McDonald’s French Fries…

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Shot Heard Round The World!: Obscure Arthritis Drug Leads To Full Head Of Hair. -Kinda…

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Shot Heard Round The World!: Obscure Arthritis Drug Leads To Full Head Of Hair. -Kinda…
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DAMMIT!!!

I thought this was going to be a THE cure for normal DHT-based Male-Pattern Baldness.

-But NOooOOOOooo!!! :(

Okay, okay, okay; it’s no less impressive that the patient in question, who had both Plaque-Psoriasis and (just like our old .000001%-er pal John D. Rockefeller) Total Hair-Loss on his entire body, -was cured of Both conditions by the drug-wizardry cooked up by Yale’s scientists.

 
Not only that but so far…

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New Twist Spins Hair-Loss Cure Closer To Reality

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Other

New Twist Spins Hair-Loss Cure Closer To Reality
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So if assaults by freeze-dried saw palmetto berries and the butt-kickers at The Salk Institute weren’t enough, Angela Christiano and her team have come up with a few new tweaks to the standard method for regrowing those stubborn hair cells.

Normally, a patch of hair-cells called Dermal Papillae are extracted from a skin-patch and then if all goes well, duplicated in a lab.

 
However most of the time, this process doesn’t go well for reasons we don’t yet completely understand.

But in Angela’s new twist, instead of just laying the cells out flat…

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GENTLEMEN! Start. Your. “Dapper-Dans”!: Protein For Baldness Discovered

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech, Other

GENTLEMEN! Start. Your. “Dapper-Dans”!: Protein For Baldness Discovered
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Now if they could just use the discovery to make some fancy topical pomade.

-Because through their experiments, the team at UPenn discovered not only the elevated presence of this protein under areas of skin that are bald,

But that if they applied it to a normally-hairy area, that area eventually went bald, too.

It wasn’t some odd outlier-type of baldness either…

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Gray/No Hair May Be Things Of The Past, PATRICK STEWART BE DAMNED!!!

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech, Noise, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Gray/No Hair May Be Things Of The Past, PATRICK STEWART BE DAMNED!!!
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Sorry Ladies.

Your love affair with George Clooney, LL Cool J., and Captain Jean-Luc Picard is now at an unfortunate end.

Scientists at NYU, Yale and others have hornswaggled some near-Jesus-grade research on a pre-discovered, pre-studied, and now increasingly sexy protein called WNT,

-which will heretofore be referred to as -WANT!- by all the sexy laydeez.

Why? -W(a)NT! looks to pack a 1-2 punch for both hair color and growth Re-Gen…

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Reverse Hair Loss & Even Regrow With Saw Palmetto

Filed Under: Vitamins/Supplements

Reverse Hair Loss & Even Regrow With Saw Palmetto
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Hair loss seems to have met its match in Saw palmetto berries!

Our friends over at HairLossBuddy.com report on a strange contest held in England over the course of 1 year.

The winner of the contest was someone taking freeze-dried Saw Palmetto Berries.

And as only HLB seems to do, he takes it to the next level with another supplement even more powerful than Saw Palmetto used for the same purpose….

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