Opening up about our biggest insecurity: balding!

About this episode

The episode discusses the insecurities surrounding balding and explores both male and female hair loss experiences.

On today's episode, we get into our biggest insecurity... going bald! We discuss the differences between male and female hair loss, Greg’s hair loss journey from topical treatments to snarky remarks, and we ask the question… are bald men hot? To leave us a message on hair loss, topics you would like to know about or anything Sidenote by asapSCIENCE, please visit https://www.asapscience.com/chat For more Sidenote Podcast episodes, check out http://sidenotepodcast.com/ Episode Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41431-022-01201-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01490-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10358-1 https://www.nature.com/nature-index/topics/l4/androgenetic-alopecia-management-strategies https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05973-0 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32645251/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0162309595001301?via%3Dihub https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7037739/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39969294/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41762869/ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5c01780 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9298335/#jocd14537-bib-0067…

People in this episode

Host: AsapSCIENCE

Topics covered

• balding
• hair loss
• insecurity
• male hair loss
• female hair loss
• self-image

Keywords

• balding
• hair loss
• insecurity
• male hair loss
• female hair loss
• self-image
• treatments

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