Poor men–they just can’t win. TV ads for a certain baldness cure always show guys with "hot" babes, but a new study suggests that men who take the drug finasteride, commonly marketed under the trademark names Propecia and Proscar, may report an on-going reduction in sex drive, and in some cases, prolonged periods of erectile dysfunction even after they stop using the medications.
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If you’re a man who’s planning on joining a social network, you may wish you had more hair. If Rogaine didn’t do it for you, it may be because you’re under stress. It has been long known that stress plays a part not just in the graying of hair but in hair loss as well. A team of researchers that was investigating how stress affects gastrointestinal function may have found a chemical compound that induces hair growth by blocking a stress-related hormone associated with hair loss–entirely by accident.
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While men are agonizing about going bald, scientists are wondering why humans are so hairless. Our close cousins the chimps have no hair loss problems. Researchers think we humans may have lost our body hair so we’d have fewer parasites.
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