Anonymous
10/03/2025 17:17
Subject: Teen balding
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hair loss is not like diabetes
Do you really think there would be any bald men in Hollywood if indeed there were a hair loss solution?
There are very few bald men in Hollywood.
Because the successful ones have had hair transplants etc.
That and many wear high dollar wigs.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 17:16
Subject: Teen balding
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My father and both my grandfathers had early male pattern baldness. My brother's hair started thinning in high school. Now my 12 year old's hairline is receding. He hasn't mentioned it, but I see it and wonder if he should start using Minoxodil or something. Anyone else dealt with this? I'm his mom, btw.
Doesn't work. Turns your boy into a girl with weak joints.
Is that what you and he wants?
Totally false. Where did you learn this?
You are either clueless or a shill liar pushing the product.
I think you’re the clueless one. I worked on the FDA approval of it. No gender issues. Joint pain is a possible side effect, but not common. I know several men who are on it for years and they still use it daily and have full hair.
That's called a conflict of interest. Now people really know you are a shill.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 15:45
Subject: Teen balding
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hair loss is not like diabetes
Do you really think there would be any bald men in Hollywood if indeed there were a hair loss solution?
There are very few bald men in Hollywood.
Because the successful ones have had hair transplants etc.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 15:39
Subject: Teen balding
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My son started balding quickly at 17. He started topical minoxidil but didn't like the gumminess of his hair, so switched to the pills. It has stopped the hair loss, and with a good haircut, you can't tell. His goal is to keep his hair in college then let it go after that.
So he's still in HS or a frosh in college? You sweet summer child, he hasn't begun to lose his hair yet. Give it about 5 years and then he will start to notice the real hair loss. Nothing will stop it.
Did you even read the post you're replying to???
Anonymous
10/03/2025 15:36
Subject: Teen balding
Anonymous wrote:Hair loss is not like diabetes
Do you really think there would be any bald men in Hollywood if indeed there were a hair loss solution?
There are very few bald men in Hollywood.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 15:35
Subject: Teen balding
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My father and both my grandfathers had early male pattern baldness. My brother's hair started thinning in high school. Now my 12 year old's hairline is receding. He hasn't mentioned it, but I see it and wonder if he should start using Minoxodil or something. Anyone else dealt with this? I'm his mom, btw.
Doesn't work. Turns your boy into a girl with weak joints.
Is that what you and he wants?
WTF?
Anonymous
10/03/2025 09:04
Subject: Teen balding
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My father and both my grandfathers had early male pattern baldness. My brother's hair started thinning in high school. Now my 12 year old's hairline is receding. He hasn't mentioned it, but I see it and wonder if he should start using Minoxodil or something. Anyone else dealt with this? I'm his mom, btw.
Doesn't work. Turns your boy into a girl with weak joints.
Is that what you and he wants?
Totally false. Where did you learn this?
You are either clueless or a shill liar pushing the product.
I think you’re the clueless one. I worked on the FDA approval of it. No gender issues. Joint pain is a possible side effect, but not common. I know several men who are on it for years and they still use it daily and have full hair.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 08:47
Subject: Teen balding
Anonymous wrote:12 yr old with receding hair line? That’s awfully young. Yes I knew guys in HS who had started balding (I dated one) but they were 17. Twelve seems awfully young.
When is his next well child appt? I’d mention it to the pediatrician - out of his ear shot! - and see if any blood work is in order.
I’d think the high schools you knew started showing early symptoms in middle school. They and their mom probably noticed at the very earliest stages the hairline moved.
I remember people telling my husband that it seemed that he may not go bald like his older brothers. But we were already seeing the signs that wasn’t as evident from afar depending on that week’s cut or style.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 08:45
Subject: Re:Teen balding
It all comes down to inflammation and the JAK-Stat pathway can help to mitigate that - but glucose spikes cause it. You can take a topical JAK inhibitor but they aren't currently widely available. https://www.healio.com/news/dermatology/20190619/jak-inhibitor-promotes-hair-growth-in-both-men-women-with-androgenetic-alopecia
ATI-502 (Aclaris), an investigational topical Janus kinase (JAK) 1/3 inhibitor, was evaluated in adult women and men with androgenetic alopecia (AGA) and applied to the scalp twice daily for 26 weeks.
Twenty-three of 31 subjects completed 6 months of treatment. Twenty subjects, 14 men and 6 women, had evaluable hair counts, and 22 subjects recorded investigator global assessment and subject self-assessment scores.
The mean change from baseline in non-vellus target area hair count (TAHC) at week 26 was the primary endpoint. The TAHC increase was 15.3 hairs/cm2 in female subjects and 5.6 hairs/cm2 in males, according to a press release from Aclaris.
The investigators rated 16 of 22 subjects (73%) as experiencing increased hair growth, and 18 of 22 subjects (82%) rated themselves as experiencing increased hair growth.
“By inhibiting the local inflammation, you remove that [resting phase and hair loss effect], allowing hair follicle stem cell activation, pushing that follicle back into the anagen phase,” Walker said.
The effect in female subjects was particularly strong, according to Walker. A continued linear hair increase was seen up to 6 months, which is not typical in this condition, he said.
Twelve-month results from this trial are expected by the end of the year.
The treatment is nonhormonal, Walker said, and could be used in a variety of options, such as in monotherapy or in combination with existing therapies.
“One thing that surprised me was how robust the female data was,” Walker said. “ Most people who work in hair loss studies look at males first, then go to females. We just decided to do both. I think that was a pleasant surprise.”
ATI-502 (Aclaris), an investigational topical Janus kinase (JAK) 1/3 inhibitor, was evaluated in adult women and men with androgenetic alopecia (AGA) and applied to the scalp twice daily for 26 weeks.
Twenty-three of 31 subjects completed 6 months of treatment. Twenty subjects, 14 men and 6 women, had evaluable hair counts, and 22 subjects recorded investigator global assessment and subject self-assessment scores.
The mean change from baseline in non-vellus target area hair count (TAHC) at week 26 was the primary endpoint. The TAHC increase was 15.3 hairs/cm2 in female subjects and 5.6 hairs/cm2 in males, according to a press release from Aclaris.
The investigators rated 16 of 22 subjects (73%) as experiencing increased hair growth, and 18 of 22 subjects (82%) rated themselves as experiencing increased hair growth.
“By inhibiting the local inflammation, you remove that [resting phase and hair loss effect], allowing hair follicle stem cell activation, pushing that follicle back into the anagen phase,” Walker said.
The effect in female subjects was particularly strong, according to Walker. A continued linear hair increase was seen up to 6 months, which is not typical in this condition, he said.
Twelve-month results from this trial are expected by the end of the year.
The treatment is nonhormonal, Walker said, and could be used in a variety of options, such as in monotherapy or in combination with existing therapies.
“One thing that surprised me was how robust the female data was,” Walker said. “ Most people who work in hair loss studies look at males first, then go to females. We just decided to do both. I think that was a pleasant surprise.”
Anonymous
10/03/2025 08:43
Subject: Teen balding
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hair loss is not like diabetes
Do you really think there would be any bald men in Hollywood if indeed there were a hair loss solution?
This.
30-35% of men are bald by their 30s. Probably none of them would be if there was an actual solution.
Only transplants work, and that only works if there is enough donor hair, such as with male pattern rather than crown balding or horseshoe balding.
Because they will need to use the blue pill permanently
This is…. not true. Both minoxidil and finasteride are effective. Why men don’t all use it, I have no idea. But they have FDA approvals for hair loss for a reason.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 08:42
Subject: Re:Teen balding
What is dangerous about it?
Anonymous
10/03/2025 08:39
Subject: Re:Teen balding
Anonymous wrote:There are so many medicines these days - the people commenting have really no idea. Biologics and JAK inhibitors work extremely well. Despite the concern for "infections" the number of infections is akin to the number of women who take the pill who get blood clots - a really small number. Plus, if your immune system is attacking your hair, there are likely other problems internally that you don't know about. One person I know took Xeljanz for her hair and it cleared up her asthma as well.
Hair loss is a lot like diabetes and probably linked to glucose as well. His hair might be extremely sensitive to glucose spikes for instance. He could get a glucose monitor and wear it for a couple of months and see what his glucose levels look like. Anyone who cares about their health should do that, in fact.
This is dangerous advice
Anonymous
10/03/2025 08:35
Subject: Re:Teen balding
PP here. Exosomes are also having good results but I don't recommend them because Hair Loss is the cosmetic manifestation of what is going on inside your body. Fix whats wrong inside and you won't need cosmetic solutions.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 08:33
Subject: Teen balding
Anonymous wrote:PP, name a respected mainstream medical practice that would facilitate this. I doubt you can.
Which part? Xeljanz? It is prescribed for hair loss all the time. This is the Doctor at Yale that started prescribing it. https://brettkingmd.com/ There is another one at George Washington but you can go to anyone and get it prescribed. It's expensive though.
Glucose monitors are over the counter.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 08:30
Subject: Teen balding
PP, name a respected mainstream medical practice that would facilitate this. I doubt you can.