Bill Gates Criticizes That More Money is Spent on Balding Cures than Polio and Malaria Vaccines
Mr Rassman,
I have a question for you regarding Bill Gates. He’s always on TV talking about how there is less money being put into polio and malaria research than there is to balding cures. He criticizes this. I think more money should go to hair loss than polio and malaria combined. Hair loss causes so much grief and difficulty for men. I think he just doesn’t understand it and might change his tune if he were bald. What do you think?
We wrote about Bill Gates’ quote years ago here.
I am in the business of hair restoration, and even I agree that polio and malaria treatments are more important than curing balding. Hair loss, while it causes grief and stress to men and women, is not a disease, but rather a heritable pattern of hair loss. It does not cause death like polio and malaria. Some may not agree with me, but hair loss is not a disease.
“I think more money should go to hair loss than polio and malaria combined.”
lol
here a quote from the link Dr Rassman gave you (public comment section)
“Get over yourself Neo Nyquist. If you honestly think Male pattern baldness is a bigger problem in the world than malaria, I pity your soul-less existance. ”
thats how i feel for you soul-less
also Bill Gate is balding himself
“Gates said that more money was being spent finding a cure for baldness than developing drugs to combat malaria’ Bill Gates said this (a little tongue-in-cheek) -at a TED conference – devoted to discussing effective vaccines and treatments for malaria, a disease that is rampant in the developing world and contributes to massive numbers of deaths. He did not say this related to polio; an effective vaccine for polio was discovered decades ago and the only ‘research” that needs to be done is trying to find ways to help disseminate the vaccine to those who would ordinarily not get vaccinated.
This is just a tongue-in-cheek jab at societal values being held in the United States. We currently live in a world where the system channels excess resources into buying services that will make us look better and feel more secure where they could be better spent saving lives and curing real disease. I am pleased with Dr. Rassman’s word choice that he is in the ‘business’ of hair loss and does not try to portray it as being a discipline of medicine that treats disease.
I assure you that baldness is more lethal than you would ever want to admit….look up pictures of men & teenagers who’ve killed themselves…I’m fairly certain 90% or more of them suffered from some sort of hairloss (NW2(maturation)-NW6)..I can almost guarantee you that had they not had MPHL that they would have not gone through with the act of suicide. Curing hair loss is far more important than anyone would ever know. There are many of us who need the same hair we had when we were 14 in order to remain confident and focused in such a society that stigmatizes middle aged men.
it is noteworthy that most of the pain from MPHL happens in the earliest phases of suffering (NW1 going to NW2 or NW2 going to NW3)…..
there are also no psychiatric medicines that can change someone who is devastated by hair loss into being happy. Believe me, I have tried them all, plus other happy pills to no avail. The only way to reduce suicide risk & the profound anxiety caused by hair loss is to stop the genetic damage to the hair follicles or restore an adequate hairline using follicular unit transplantation techniques. Acne and hair loss have very similar psychiatric effects…and they are both extremely suicide-inducing diseases in my opinion and FUE should be covered by health insurance policies in my opinion…most patients cannot afford the hair grafting they need nor the propecia sadly…..and all that does is cause them to have severe anxiety/vascular disease/increased suicide risk. Yes…there are doctors who believe male pattern hair loss is directly responsible for vascular disease in some patients due to the profound anxiety and stress it causes.
BOTTOM LINE: Fixing hair loss is grueling. We all have to work together to understand the severity of what I know is a disease, and a very serious one at that.
Ok… So, can you imagine how much negativity goes out in the world because of hairloss. Not just in the U.S. but around the world. Even in poor countries where malaria and polio are. I bet that more suffering happens because of hair loss then malaria or polio. Look at the end of the day, it boils down to this. The United States and other industrial nations should start a manhattan project style mission to end hairloss within the next 2-3 years. Polio and malaria can wait. I think Bill Gates should reposition the gill and balinda gates charity to combat hairloss, make a profit, then poor the money into fighting malaria and polio. That’s it!
6 & 7 – I can’t tell if you’re trolling, or if you honestly believe that a cosmetic thing like balding IS WORSE THAN DEATH. Would you really sacrifice thousands of lives to preventable disease so that you can prolong your illusion of eternal youth? That is unbelievably self-absorbed. No wonder your are struggling so much with this.
I am 25 and well on my way to a NW6 by 30. I’m not happy about it, but I’m coping. I’m learning to laugh at myself. I’m keeping depression at bay and trying to look on the bright side of things. I’m ignoring the media that has convinced men of my age that looks are everything, that you are nothing without your hair. It sickens me that I ever bought in to that kind of manipulation. Be your own man. Be who you were meant to be.
gates annoys me when it gets to this, for one thing i am sure more money is spent on his crappy software than on both Polio and Malaria Vaccines, so to start off with he is to some extent a hypocrite. but secondly, he just seems invariably hostile towards bald people, there have been other times he has criticised people for treating their hair loss.
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