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Re:Ask HN: Coping with Hair Loss by rossdavidh on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:43PM (#31927511)
Hair loss "cures" do nothing else for your health, and are also unlikely to work.

Exercising outdoors more, to become less "pale and pudgy", is good for your health, even if for some reason it fails to make you less pale and pudgy. Being outdoors, and exercising, also both improve one's mental health in a way that baldness "cures" will not.

Speaking as a pale balding dude, I get what you're saying, but chasing baldness cures is unlikely to help. Trying to do something about "pale and pudgy" is more likely to work, and also likely to have side-benefits as well even if it doesn't work.

Re:Ask HN: Coping with Hair Loss by capitalsigma on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @10:00PM (#31927963)
Finasteride is real medicine that delays baldness as long as you start it before you have already lost too much hair.

Ask your doctor about it ASAP if hair loss is an issue for you

Re:Ask HN: Coping with Hair Loss by cointreau on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:29AM (#31929260)
Agreed. I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. Finasteride isn’t snake oil; it’s been around for a while now, and is known to be very effective. I’ve been using it for twenty years, and I’m one of the few guys in my group of college friends who isn’t visibly balding.

It can have side effects, as I mentioned in an earlier comment. Talk to your doc and do your research, but I think Finasteride might be the first thing you would want to try here.