Why Treating Baldness Is Important
There are hundreds of millions of dollars spent worldwide each year on hair loss products and balding treatments. About 60% of men will experience some hair loss caused by male pattern baldness so there definitely is a large population of people who have the condition. The question, though, is why do we care? Why are we willing to spend upwards of twenty or thirty thousand dollars for hair restoration surgery when all we are doing is getting some hair to grow on our heads?
I am not saying that society doesn’t force the issue. A leading news organization in London ran a test on a local online dating site. They set up two fictitious men looking for women profiles. The profiles were exactly the same picture except one of the photos had been manipulated to show the 35 year old man as having a receding hair line. After 3 months of being… Read more »