Think of it as a radical body modification. Suppose someone wasn’t really a fan of having hair at all and wanted to just not. Most of the scientific research on hair loss has been about stopping or reversing it, but in all that research have we learned whether we could cause it to happen on purpose? I don’t mean conventional hair removal, and I don’t mean laser or electrolysis which both have significant limitations and wouldn’t be feasible for total hair loss on the entire body.
I mean like a vaccine for hair, an injection someone could take that would cause their immune system to attack all their hair follicles in the same way we see in alopecia universalis, so they have literally no hair at all anywhere on their body permanently. It feels like it should be possible, especially now with the increasing use of mRNA vaccines.
Wouldn’t you seriously fuck up your balance and hearng since part of the inner ear relies on hair in a complex system? This seems like a bad idea.
Read literally the first paragraph of the wikipedia page. “People with the condition are usually healthy and have no other symptoms and a normal life expectancy.”
Interesting questions. It would also remove eyebrows and eyelashes, which serve to protect eyes from dust and things like that. Armpit and pubic hair serve to reduce friction in those areas and prevent chafing. Nostril hair, assuming it would also be gone, is part of the filtering system of the air we breathe. Considering all those health implications, being fully informed before doing it would be really important.
But if someone still wants to do that to themselves, and is an adult capable of making their own decisions, I say let them!
Whether it’s possible or not (the core of your question), I have no idea but the other comments seem to have some theories about that.
Nair?
I’m sure that there’s some theoretical route to do it, but I’d be really hesitant about trying to induce situations where one’s immune system attacks one’s own cells. That can do some pretty unpleasant things.
Do not try doing whatever you’re planning on doing to yourself
I’m not sure how I’m supposed to avoid doing nothing to myself. What are you even imagining here?
You’re in a place where a lot of people have seen others follow up questions like this with some scary shit. Don’t blame them for jumping the gun, even if you’re fine
Follow up question: how to not poo
Don’t do it Grail, come down from that ledge 🫂
How not to be vegan
You are what you eat. Stop eating vegans.
don’t do it, dude…
not a dude
who are you then?
a square, presumably
Dudette /j
Have you heard about chemo? It’s really nice! 👍
(/s)
Cisplatin, a platinum-based chemotherapy treatment, even destroys the stereocilia in the cochlea of the inner ear and damages hearing function. chemotherapy is not a recreational drug, folks 😢
chemo hair loss isnt permanent it comes back after you stop
Sounds doable. You need a hair follicle cell culture and to give it a reason to attack it like a vaccine works. Inverse vaccines are a thing now, should not be too hard to do.
But honestly, I would rather you get some mental health help.
Given the knowledge base in inducing hair growth, I would think that developing a treatment like you’re describing would be in the realm of possibility.
That being said, a medical treatment to loose all hair likely wouldn’t sell given the human aesthetic preference for a head of hair seeming to be almost hard coded in humanity as a sign of virility.
The tech is likely there, but the demand isn’t.
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