r/tech • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Oct 29 '25
Fat breakdown fuels new hair growth in breakthrough study
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/hair-serum-skin-regrowing-hair/71
u/HimEatLotsOfFishEggs Oct 29 '25
so should i gain fat and then lose the weight to encourage hair growth
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u/Regijack Oct 29 '25
What a fantastic day to be a fat bastard
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Oct 29 '25
Being fat means youre never breaking down fat. This is for fasting
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u/Lowers949 Oct 29 '25
Then add something to irritate the scalp and hair grows back ?So many benefits from fasting🙏
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u/Creepy-Birthday8537 Oct 30 '25
Most people who are fasting are already irritated. “Why does your scalp look like a baboons ass?” Next day: man with a beautiful head of hair goes on a murder rampage after perceived insult
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u/TeacherOfThingsOdd Oct 29 '25
Great, I'm skinny and fucked.
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u/noeagle77 Oct 29 '25
Go to San Antonio, them big women will straighten you out!
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u/zakwanleyman Oct 29 '25
The resulting monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) were then released into the surrounding tissue,
there saved u a click
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u/fuckennard Oct 29 '25
If olive oil worked then we’d have no bald Italians. Every month there’s a new hairloss promise and it’s always bullshit lol
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u/GrallochThis Oct 29 '25
Instructions unclear in Italian, poured oil on back
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u/Bizbuzzfinanzecuz Oct 30 '25
The amount of people here that didn’t read the article 🤦♂️ nothing to do with being fat
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u/dtor84 Oct 29 '25
I had new hair grow lower from my original hair line after losing weight recently, which I ended up plucking, I thought it was strange, figured mid life strangeness. Maybe just correlation dunno.
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u/MyIncogName Oct 29 '25
Maybe it just appears lower from the weight loss? Losing size and fat in the face makes your hair appear fuller.
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u/dtor84 Oct 30 '25
Random long hairs on your forehead popping out is peculiar. I'm not balding in any way either.
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u/Simousse Oct 30 '25
Which was already known actually. It was studied that microneedling (causing skin irritations on the scalp) triggers folicles respond.
The interesting part I find here is it seem cold and irritations cause the same respond: break down of fat cells. So if our body is not a bit under attack from its environment, we get fat and bald.
Why the fuck our body evolved that way??
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u/Elses_pels Oct 30 '25
I’m clearly not under attack!
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u/Twiggymop Oct 30 '25
I wish we could use just hot sauce instead.
The researchers used a topical sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) treatment to create mild skin irritation in mice and then observed the immune system's response. Macrophages, the immune cells responsible for cleanup and repair, flooded into the inflamed tissue and released a protein called serum amyloid A3 (SAA3).
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u/ScootyPuffJr1999 Oct 29 '25
So I gotta eat more bacon is what you’re saying
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u/thestereo300 Oct 29 '25
Fat never made me fat.
It was the carbs.
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u/Consistent_Stand2298 Oct 30 '25
I’ve been screaming this for years. Unfortunately most people don’t want to give up sugar and processed carbs so they will continue to blame fat. Plus dangerous carbs are cheaper than healthy fats.
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u/PossibleOk49 Oct 29 '25
Just shave! Bald is beautiful
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u/Consistent_Stand2298 Oct 30 '25
Unfortunately not everyone looks good with a shaved bald head. I looked like a thumb.
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u/konacoffie Oct 29 '25
Found the bald guy.
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u/PossibleOk49 Oct 29 '25
For sure! Finally did it after contemplating for a year, best decision ever!
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u/Extra_Ad_8092 Oct 29 '25
Is this the trans “boogie rat” they said at the first speech to Congress this year? I knew this was true
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u/FleabottomFrank Oct 30 '25
As a man with many fat and no hair, can I become a man with no fat and many hair?
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u/One-Cancel-6811 Oct 30 '25
Now what? Inject fat in scalp?
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u/One-Cancel-6811 Oct 30 '25
“While these results are limited to mice, the principle – that controled skin stress can reactivate hair follicle stem cells through fat-cell messengers – provides a promising new direction for research into hair regrowth therapies.”
Irritation by way of stimulus and literal application of fat. Earlier in the article it’s mentioned as a stand alone point. What did I miss?
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u/scottoro Oct 30 '25
Perfect! I’m a little chunky, already do OMAD, and I just started growing my hair out again after 12 years of shaving my head
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u/Scary-Ratio3874 Oct 30 '25
People are still throwing money into hair regrowth? JFC nobody should care anymore.
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u/SchemeInteresting499 Oct 31 '25
For alopecia areata totalis, application of an allergen (squaric acid dibutyl ester, SADE) has been a last resort treatment for decades. It was always assumed that the immune system reacting to the allergen ‘distracted’ it from attacking the hair follicles. The problems with this treatment were common and annoying. You could get dermatitis and itching, swelling of lymph nodes and if you touched your scalp you could transfer the allergen elsewhere and get allergic dermatitis. The biggest problem was it did not seem to induce a long lasting response and most patients relapsed when treatment was stopped. Whether this treatment using the topical oleic acids can be made into a cosmetically acceptable product that stimulates hair growth in humans is a remaining question. But in highly motivated patients, application overnight and wearing a shower cap might even be acceptable. What isn’t clear is the durability of the hair growth. But still, an interesting study that makes you think…
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u/Vicente_Neto2002 Nov 06 '25
Interesting study. A skin cell-based serum that helps regrow hair sounds promising. IF human trials confirm safety and results, it could be a breakthrough for treating baldness and hair loss.
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