Michael Regilio
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jul
Michael Regilio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't know which guy. There's a guy that got his penis cut off. He's got hair, I think. It's been a while since I've seen it.
Oh, no, no, no. No, you're right. There is a guy who's got his balls cut off and he's totally bald. So they're playing both sides on this one. But look, as we'll see, testosterone and its byproducts are a part of the hair loss equation.
Look, who's to say? In Rome, around 50 BCE, a popular treatment for balding was to rub myrrh berries into the scalp.
No, but it probably dyed the scalp purple. Baldness is like a real catch-22. There's nothing more embarrassing than balding, except, of course, getting caught with lame attempts to cover up balding. Totally. The Romans who believed a full head of hair was a sign of favorability with the gods, they were particularly snarky to bald dudes, as illustrated in this famous poem.
On your bald pate, no wig you use. You draw hairs on with no excuse. At least no barber needs to trim it. You can erase it in a minute.
Yeah, actually, to be honest with you, the Romans wrote poems making fun of a lot of people. And there wasn't just one about bald people. There's also, how can you have so little hair yet have it show up everywhere?
I'm not sure, but one has to wonder what jokes were made at Julius Caesar's expense as the most famous example of the comb-over.
Those are just the bad comb-overs. I've known some guys who take the art form to new levels. Truly remarkable how effective a determined man in a bottle of hairspray can be.
Man, look, I never did anything that drastic. Except I did once consider converting to Judaism for the yarmulke. Maybe Caesar should have done that. That's not a bad idea. Yeah, well, Caesar tried a bunch of stuff, including a home remedy recommended by his lover Cleopatra, which included ground-up mice and horse teeth.
And after he got the ground-up mice wiped off his head, he opted for the cover-up many people eventually adopt. The hat. The hat, yeah.
Oh, man. You and the ground up mice. Hey, look, the mice thing has legs, so to speak. Ireland, around the year 1000 CE, there was a cure that instructed people to shove mice into a clay jar, seal it, bury it next to a fire and leave it there for a year.
But look, smearing the dead mouse on his head was wild. But Caesar was onto something with the wreath. I say bring back the laurel wreath. Can you imagine if dudes wore wreaths instead of baseball caps? I'm not dissing the baseball cap. I'm just very pro-wreath. Instead of sweatshops pumping out pollution and baseball caps, we'd have farms growing baseball wreaths and cowboy wreaths.
I guess so. But hair loss has stumped doctors for a very long time. As recently as 1889, doctors believed baldness could be prevented with exercise, fresh air, and good hygiene.
Totally. You're right. It can't hurt. But if you've got hair loss coming down the genealogy highway, you can't exercise your way out of it.
Although hair loss is hereditary, that old nugget of wisdom is not necessarily true. So if you're looking at a bald maternal grandfather and worrying about your luscious locks, don't. It might not be your fate, thanks to modern advancements. Starting in the late 19th century, the first real treatments began in the form of hair transplants.
The early techniques were crude and often resulted in unnatural looking hair.
Yeah, the fact of the matter is the cutting edge of hair transplants are starting to look really good. Doctors have been refining the techniques that were begun in the 1950s with the concept of donor dominance. That's a technique that uses hair from the back and sides of the head and transplants them to the top.
Those dead mice treatments, they did a number on you. Yeah, man. You know what? I've actually seen a few hair transplants that did look like someone sewed a dead mouse to someone's head. But the problem with hair transplants is that they don't address the root causes of hair loss. Understanding those causes and creating drugs to counter them have changed the game.
Okay. One cause of hair loss is stress, which sucks because losing your hair stresses you out even more.
Yeah, well, lucky you. Most people over 50 are experiencing some level of hair loss.
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