“In the future, nobody will care.”

I wonder if he had that idea before or after Patrick Stewart was cast as Picard.

  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Funny enough, I’m good friends with the woman who was the lead researcher of Proctor and Gambles’ program for a hair growth product back in the 90’s. Ultimately, P&G was forced to abandon the effort after many many years.

    My friend stated she could grow hair on a cue ball. The only issue was the cue ball wouldn’t survive the process.

    Short story long… It is possible to cure male and female baldness. The only problem is the patient would not survive the toxic cocktail that growing hair requires.

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        4 days ago

        Minoxidil has a very narrow efficacy.

        P&G’s project was aimed primarily to cure baldness in… Women and not men. Surprising I know, but back in those days baldness in women was viewed as a more lucrative target market. They were also going for much stronger and broader results than what Minoxidil generally provides in order to compete with it. Minoxidil was developed by Upjohn in the 50’s.

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          i do recall hearing something about the head-hair results not being as effective as beard-hair result, something about different hair follicle types? just pulling from memory/personal experience though, no studies or anything

          beard results do appear to be permanent, slightly less thick when you stop but long as you use it for a year or so it does seem to fill out a pube-beard permanently.