u/jawboi9000

You never smoked, no alcohol, no drugs.

Eat clean, no sugar, optimize nutrition and great sleep.

Work out, get lean, build muscle, great bloodwork. No wrinkles, no accepted* health issues.

Now look at your head: it is still balding.

Look at Michael Lustgarten, a great researcher by the way. He measures all his body parameters and tweaks each and every one of them. He has excellent body composition, a perfect vascular system. He still lost his hair.

And then I see other people who eat junk food all day, overweight, smoker, drinker, game through the night. But guess what: they look 10 years younger because they have full heads of hair.

What a cheap game this is. Nature marked us as old, aging. There is a clear delineation between youth and old age, the boring rest of ones life: pattern hair loss.

Oh and you notice that humans are extremely tuned to the hair loss pattern. It immediately evokes an impression of less vitality, even some kind of creepiness. Clowns shave the same pattern. There is a reason for this. I just need to paint the hair I got with some red or blue paint and I am ready as a clown. So you rather shave everything off instead. Interesting. Completely bald looks fine, that pattern is not.

Our bodies can grow lush hair, our bodies can grow new teeth, new limbs, even new cartilage. But our bodies simply do not want this. Scientists find new blocking mechanisms every day that simply prevent a perfect regeneration or health. Who or what added these blockages? The objectives of our bodies are different, a happy life is not one of them.

You can do everything right, your prostate will still continue growing until you suffer. Same dht mechanism as balding by the way.

But male pattern balding also shows us a truth about aging: We are all biological vehicles where under each trunk different parts were build to fail at different rates. That is it, that is aging. A biological machine that reproduces early and after that, the scary thing comes. Nobody cares anymore, nature does not care about you anymore. Pain, body horror, does not matter. Does not change the outcome. Without new science we are just there for the ride.

Now they found out now that 50 percent of aging is genetic. There are 110 year old people who smoke a pack of cigarettes each day.

You are on your own. Without artificial intervention there is nothing we can do about aging.

Solving male pattern baldness on a molecular level also solves aging.

*balding is a health issue, a loss of fitness, increases danger of skin cancer, makes one a more likely bullying target, less social competency can reduce healthspan and lifespan. That our looks biased, hypocritical society not accept balding as a disease means nothing in terms of science or reality.

"For the rest of his life he has to supplement Thyroxin".

"For the rest of her life she has to inject insulin"

Let us assume the people in question are young, let us say in their early 30s and a life expectancy estimate of 80 years. So with the statement "for the rest of his or her life..." the implicit assumption is made that there will be no progress in half a century in medicine, in regenerative medicine, nothing. What hubris, fatalism, extended victim mentality, and lack of any kind of aspiration or creativity someone has to muster to give out a statement like this.

Futurists, accelerationists especially, are ridiculed for their alleged inability in forecasting the future, whilst such pessimists just blurt out statements as these above.

When one has any kind of tech in ones hands, old phone, cell phone, smart phone, whatever, one can always be sure to be right in the assumption that said device will be available in a faster, better, more efficient form in the near future. So why should it be any different with medicine. It is not. Each day the knowledge and methods of manipulating biology grow, at some point things simply become possible. Extremely intricate structures a few atoms in size, trillions of them are put onto one of the flattest and atomically purest pieces of matter every day and can be bought for a comparably laughable amount of effort in monetary terms. 50 years ago those were primitive and laid out by hand. You can not tell me that everything becomes better, more efficient, more powerful, except for medicine??

Just my two cents that came to me on my journey of developing an anti Victorian therapy mindset...