Balding - What Actually Works?

So... you’re losing your hair. Is there anything that can be done about it? And are the treatments dangerous -- for your or your

So... you’re losing your hair. Is there anything that can be done about it? And are the treatments dangerous -- for your or your penis? We talk to geneticist Prof. Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach  and dermatologists Dr. Wilma Bergfeld and Dr. Robert Bernstein.

Check out the full transcript here.

Extra reading:

• A review of balding treatments
• Stefanie’s paper on balding genetics
• This research on the intersex population of the Dominican Republic 
• Notes on hair transplants

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