1094: Vanity Products | Skeptical Sunday
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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.
Hair is important, I guess, to both men and women, as long as it's in the right place.
Speaking of which, on average, a human has between 2 and 5 million hairs, of which about 100,000 are on the scalp.
So the majority of our hair is not on our head, which I guess makes sense, surface area and all that.
Right. And blonde-haired Caucasians have the highest hair density, which I can relate to because as a younger man, I had a thick blonde shock of hair, but no longer. I now have a thin patch bordering on a bald spot at the back of my scalp. This crop circle used to bum me out a lot. Now, it only bums me out a little. But recently, I've noticed that there are a lot more hair regrowth products and drugs being advertised.
Yeah, it would be hard to miss those things. Hair regrowth products, they're having a moment right now, a big one. They're advertising targets more than just middle-aged dudes now, too. I remember as a kid, even, was this in the 90s, I guess, reciting the Rogaine commercial. That was in middle school. That was early 90s.
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