Unfortunately, we are a long ways from a drug that can grow hair. We can send men to the moon and have the technology to look at the heavens millions of years away from us (unless NASA is lying about that too), but we still do not have a cure for hair loss. Of course, there are medications, lotions, potions, herbs and nutrients, but none of them work- at least no one that will ever get back the you lost.
A strand of a new hair growing here and there is the best what these medications will do. There are thousands of products for hair cures all over the internet and touted by the pharmaceutical industry- but all of them lack scientific evidence and are not worth a dime. You may as well drink cow’s urine or yours- but hair once gone is hard to get back. The hair industry is a billion dollar business because men, it appears cannot live without two things- women and hair.
For the completely bald scalp there is no chance of getting a hair transplant and thus, the future is bleak. But cloning, gene therapy, stem cell transplants have all been touted as a possible cure for hair loss. All these are illusive cures with a lot of bravado from scientists who also lack hair.
For the bald men of today, newer hair therapies are still light years away and the cost would be prohibitive for most, except for the rich.
Some researchers’ claim that perhaps hair can be transplanted from one individual to another. If there are no live donors, use dead donors. Why waste all the dead people and their scalp- use them to transplant the hair- we use their kidneys, heart and lungs and so why not hair- Yep why not?
For those who cannot bear to be bald, the cheapest and best alternative are wigs and hairpieces .These wigs are available all over the place and can cover the baldness. Naturally looking hairpieces are available and can be quite costly. One then leads a hidden closet life and becomes an indoor introvert.
These real-life like hair pieces are now available for $500-$1,000 and have to be replaced every 3-6 months. One cannot do all those fun things like exercise or swim with them- instead most of the wig wearers turn to the internet still surfing for a cure for baldness-the agony never ends.
