Chapter 1: What are vanity products and why are they significant?
Hi, Jordan. You're a recognizable figure. I'm sure there's some pressure to be presentable.
I don't know how recognizable I am, and yet, yes, I feel a little bit of pressure to look good. I was actually unable to upload a photo for my ski pass because the selfie I took was, quote, a photo of a celebrity, end quote, according to the website. So that felt pretty good. That's amazing.
Who did they think you looked like?
Yeah, not funny. Okay, kidding.
Seriously, what'd you do? Did you put on like a fake nose and try again?
No, I actually have to go into the office and prove that I'm me because otherwise it's just too unbelievable that Jordan Harbinger would get a ski pass in California where he lives.
All right. Good luck with that. Look, certain things we do to look good, like working out and eating right, have health benefits. We look good and we feel good. Certain things we do to look good have health risks, like taking drugs to regrow hair.
Hair loss is no joke. It can lead to serious depression and baldness, for that matter.
Yeah, it can. In fact, one study found that some women with breast cancer were more distressed about losing their hair than their breasts. By age 50, 50% of men and women are experiencing some level of hair loss, and 85% of those people experience anxiety.
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Chapter 2: How have hair loss treatments evolved over time?
First, and spices. Second, once you got pigeon poop rubbed on your head, no one is thinking about your hair. That must have smelled horrendous and looked worse.
Right. So in a way, it was a cure. I'm also guessing that once you've rubbed enough opium into your scalp, you'll stop caring about your hair. Yeah. You know what? This was an okay treatment for baldness. Hippocrates did, by the way, tap into the true root of hair loss. For real. He noticed that eunuchs never go bald, and he wasn't wrong to notice it. He was onto something.
Wait, what, you mean the men who had their testicles cut off? That's some Game of Thrones stuff right there. Those guys never go bald, which is funny, because isn't the guy in Game of Thrones totally bald, the eunuch?
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, I don't know. There's a lot of castration in that series, so I'd have to go back.
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.
I'm guessing no one ever decided to go with Hippocrates and just snip snip because they want to go bald. Seems like a bad trade.
Look, who's to say? In Rome, around 50 BCE, a popular treatment for balding was to rub myrrh berries into the scalp.
And I'm guessing that also did not work.
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