Why hairfall has no absolute cure like other skin diseases ? (even when medical field has developed so much)
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Do you mean hair loss? There are a lot of skin diseases with out a cure, especially autoimmune or things related to them.
Sure there are treatments for things like psoriasis, and lupus, but it isn’t a cure. It’s a bandaid to make it less awful and can help clear it, but not 100% and if you stop the meds it goes back to how it was most of the time.
Hair loss can’t be cured but implants are a big thing now and many men get them. (Zach from the try guys did a treatment and it seemed to work well) Other things like guys getting testosterone supplement to boost as it lowers, thyroid treatment for those who lose hair due to that..etc are available.
If anything there is more research and treatment done for hair loss than many devastating/painful skin and other types of diseases. Which is sort of sad as sure self esteem is important, but many (especially women’s only diseases like endometriosis and such) aren’t as studied and have little option besides surgery and pain management to help.
Hair loss at least a leading cause of it is Dihydrotestostone (DHT) so the agressive masculising form of testosterone… strangling the hair follicle.
This is why it is so hard…it is just quite inherrent to our genetics and how hormones work.
But progress is being made. For instance we now know most hair follicles don’t actually die. They just go into this super dormant state.. we also know there’s a messenger protein that can trigger hair growth.. we just discovered it this year i think. So stuff is potentially on the horizon… but as you know human trials take time and stuff related to genes and such are treated extra carefully too. So stem cell and crispr solutions also take a while.
Because so far the best we had was hair transplants, which takes healthier more resistant to dht hairs and implants them.. sadly we cannot use other peoples hair or grow our own follicles due to immune rejection issues.
We also have rather complex and expensive stem cell stuff which can help but doesn’t always
We also have finisteride which just plain and simply blocks DHT.. it can prevent damage being done to an extend… we also have minoxidil which seems to push hair into growth by blood flow increase and apparently some quite convinient epigenetic stuff..
We slowly are piecing this together basically.
Dihydrotestosterone and DNA play a major role in the loss of hair, head hair is different from other types of body hair. https://youtu.be/zxR5K8zqdEw
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