Cure for male pattern baldness?

[t0oL1]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a65350192/baldness-cure-sugar-study/

• New research suggests the cure to male pattern baldness might be sugar.
• The team simulated testosterone-based balding in mice and treated them with deoxyribose sugar, which stimulated blood vessel formation and ultimately caused hair regrowth. 
• Researchers say that the sugar treatment is just as effective as minoxidil (the active ingredient in Rogaine), a hair loss treatment currently on the market

https://www.iflscience.com/this-sugar-could-be-a-cure-for-male-pattern-baldness-and-its-been-in-our-bodies-all-along-79950

Put down the rosemary oil and pause the red light therapy, research suggests the secret to curing male pattern baldness could lie in a sugar that occurs naturally in our bodies. 

In a mouse model of testosterone-driven hair loss, the sugar, called 2-deoxy-D-ribose, stimulated hair regrowth just as effectively as existing treatment minoxidil – the active ingredient in Rogaine.

Though commonly referred to as male pattern baldness, the condition, also known as hereditary-patterned baldness or androgenetic alopecia, affects women too. In fact, up to 40 percent of people experience it, making it the most common cause of hair loss worldwide. Symptoms typically begin in a person's 20s and 30s, or after menopause. We still don’t know for sure what causes it, but it’s thought that a combination of genetics, hormones, and aging all play a part.

Treatment options are currently limited, so breakthroughs like this one, even if they’re limited to mice for now, are very promising.

“Male pattern baldness is such a common condition, affecting men all over the world, but at the moment there are only two FDA licensed drugs to treat it,” Professor Sheila MacNeil, Emeritus Professor of Tissue Engineering at the University of Sheffield, said in a statement. 

 

“Our research suggests that the answer to treating hair loss might be as simple as using a naturally occurring deoxy ribose sugar to boost the blood supply to the hair follicles to encourage hair growth.”

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[PeterRS]

5 hours ago, t0oL1 said:

In a mouse model of testosterone-driven hair loss, the sugar, called 2-deoxy-D-ribose, stimulated hair regrowth just as effectively as existing treatment minoxidil – the active ingredient in Rogaine.

I'm not sure I would have liked to try sugar, the more so as it has not even been tried on humans yet. As the link provided in the OP clearly states, “The research we have done is very much early stage". Obviously a very large monitored study, almost certainly an international one, will be required before any sugar treatment is given the go ahead by the various regulators. I suspect that if in fact it does work on humans , it will be 4 to 5 years before it is available on the market.  

My grandfathers and father were completely bald and twenty years ago my younger brother was going quite bald (he is now totally bald!) Apart from a slightly receding hairline, I had a small bald patch on the crown of the scalp and had been wondering for a while if anything could be done about it. I thought about transplants but was then recommended Rogaine which in some countries is sold as Regaine. It was then quite expensive but I decided to try it.

I have no idea if it was due to the daily applications of Rogaine, but my gradual hair loss stopped. I used the liquid for ten years from 2005 and not since. My small bald patch is perhaps fractionally larger, but I think it is only I that notice it. Many people say they are surprised that I seem to have almost a full head of hair, the more so as baldness runs in the family.

The only problem I found with Rogaine was you are supposed to use it morning and night. But it does start to leave a yellowish stain on the pillow. I just added an extra cover.

[t0oL1]

Already ordered some from Amazon.

No study is required.