I Knew Mel Gibson Was Thinning But What Is He Thinking?

Stingray

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I actually thought about this once or twice. People harvest all sorts of organs from dead people... why not hair follicles? If a cross transplant is possible, then it would be perfect. I'd do it.
 

Side Show Bob

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This brings up some intersesting questions.

How long after death are doctors able to harvest scalp tissue and still have a reasonable chance of a successful transplant?

Do you have to match tissue?

Like regular transplants, wouldn't there be tissue rejection issues?

Would the receipient have to take medication the rest of his life to prevent rejection?
 

Hairybush1

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I agree with Stingray on his one. Whats the diff between getting someones liver or getting someones hair? They should just rip off the entire scalp and stitch it onto my head.

Like I said before...call me when you find that dead Koren/Native?Mexican cross, I'll be there in a flash. :hairy:
 

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This is wierd, i heard this story last year or early this year that Mel had been getting cadaver h.t`s. But i didnt think it could be true, however reading it on the national enquirer website doesent give me much faith that it is true.
 

Hairybush1

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Reading it in the National Enquirer makes it VERY true. Stop crushing our dreams. :evil:



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Ams99

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hey, where the hell did mel's hair go??? wow, has it been that long since i've seen him in anything? another former hairy guy to baldy celebrity which i recently saw on good morning la was howie mondel. he's like a nw6 now and shaves his head clean.
 

Ams99

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oh yeah, and although i see no problem with extracting follicles from a fresh corpse, i can see the ethical dilemas this would cause. vital organs to save a persons life is one thing, but when you start using parts of the body for aesthetic reason, then it seems like you're kind of taking away the person's humanity (even though he's dead) and treating him like a junk yard car where people just strip apart and use whatever they need. although, who knows if such a procedure would work out all that well, because of reasons stated in above posts etc...
 

Hairybush1

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Ams99 said:
oh yeah, and although i see no problem with extracting follicles from a fresh corpse, i can see the ethical dilemas this would cause. vital organs to save a persons life is one thing, but when you start using parts of the body for aesthetic reason, then it seems like you're kind of taking away the person's humanity (even though he's dead) and treating him like a junk yard car where people just strip apart and use whatever they need. although, who knows if such a procedure would work out all that well, because of reasons stated in above posts etc...

I doubt anyones robbing corpses for hair. If someone donates their body parts after their dead than what does it matter?
 

nikeaddict

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its because hes making that movie portrying christ which is going to be very bad and God is punishing that dumb aussie ***.
 

Side Show Bob

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How about this?

Do you think women are going to want to run thier fingers thru your hair if they know it's from a corpse?

About as much chance as getting a hummer from a women if she knows your johnson has been transplanted!

Gives a whole new meaning to the word "stiffie".
 

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How about from the scrotum??

This is from The Spoof.

Researchers at the University of Texas have stumbled upon what may be known as the cure for baldness. Skin grafts using scrotal tissue, on the scalps of over 300 bald volunteers, have shown to be near perfect in promoting renewed hair growth to those volunteers. University of Texas Professor Frank N. Stein, PhD., and several of his students are being lauded for this monumental discovery.
The procedure was submitted to the American Medical Association for review last week after all 300 test cases were complete. It is now up to the A.M.A. to approve the procedure as medically sound. Once the A.M.A. has placed it's stamp of approval on the procedure, scrotal grafts will be made available to bald people throughout the US and eventually the world.

Dr. Stein is eager to gain approval for his procedure, for which he is certain to become a rich man in a short period of time. The procedure was actually discovered by accident. One of Dr. Stein's students had a pet rat named Gracie that had gotten burned over 40% of her body. Dr. Stein suggested grafting Gracie's burned skin with good human skin in order to ease the suffering of the rat.

The only available skin to be found was on their anatomy class cadavers, and the only skin on those that was worth using were the scrotal sacs. He and his students performed the grafts on Gracie and three weeks later when the bandages came off they were all completely surprised. Gracie had grown hair where there had only been burns before.

This led to experiments on other types of animals and then, of course, to humans. The procedure is safe and, as with all grafts, a bit painful. But the pain is short lived and acceptable to those bald fellows who volunteered.

There are a couple of drawbacks to the procedure. First is that the new hair never grows straight. All test subjects have kinky hair, actually resembling pubic hair or an afro. For people plagued with going bald, this seems to be an acceptable drawback. Second is finding men willing to sell their scrotums. Although, cadaver scrotums seem to work fine if the scrotal tissue is still pliable and stretchy.
 

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UMMMM look at the source for the article...... National Enquirer. Come on people that is as fake as the bat baby that likes to sleep upside down in coffin.
 

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Hairybush1 said:
Ams99 said:
oh yeah, and although i see no problem with extracting follicles from a fresh corpse, i can see the ethical dilemas this would cause. vital organs to save a persons life is one thing, but when you start using parts of the body for aesthetic reason, then it seems like you're kind of taking away the person's humanity (even though he's dead) and treating him like a junk yard car where people just strip apart and use whatever they need. although, who knows if such a procedure would work out all that well, because of reasons stated in above posts etc...

I doubt anyones robbing corpses for hair. If someone donates their body parts after their dead than what does it matter?

Hm, good point.

This thread reminds me of the poor people in South America (mainly in Brazil) who sell their vital organs on the “blackâ€￾ market for money (kidneys, spleen). Although this is a terrible way of exploiting people in need, I could see that there would be a market for people selling a "strip" of hair instead of a kidney. BTW… I'm not supporting this "business" but you would think that it would be a more viable option than hair from a corpse??

Would you consider hair from a another person if you knew that the person was alive??
 

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I think any transplant doctor will tell you that the body will reject anyone elses hair follicles. That was one of the first things they said for sure, when h.t.s were new. Donor hair from the original donor was the only hair that would 'take.'

Speaking as one who had a gazillion transplants, and still ran out of donor hair before the job was done, I have mused about having my sister act as a donor. I don't know if it would work, and I've never asked her, or a doctor if it would work, but I've thought about it. She's got a ton hair she'd never miss. Similar bloodlines and dna. Who knows?

But if they COULD get someone elses follicles to take on a persons head, imagine all the guys doing life in prison with full heads of hair, going to waste. It would be great to have a book of their the mug shots and offer the prisoner some amount of money for their donor hair. The'd never need it. It would be a win-win situation. But alas, back to reality....
 

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Dr. Colin Jahoda is a biologist and researcher at Durham University, in England. On November 3, 1999 Dr Jahoda and his research team gained worldwide attention by announcing that they had successfully completed the first ever transplant of scalp cells from one person to another and, for the first time ever, grew new hair on a human without the use of drugs.

The researchers took tiny circles of hairy skin from Jahoda's scalp and dissected out the sheath cells surrounding the bulb at the base of each hair. They then transplanted the sheaths onto the inner forearm of one of the female researchers, Amanda Reynolds.

About three weeks after the implant Reynolds noticed that hairs were starting to emerge from the region. "Her normal arm hairs are very fine and pale, and these were relatively large and thicker," says Jahoda. "They were also pigmented, darker, and they also grew in unusual directions." Jahoda admits that some of the hairs looked lumpy and misshapen rather than smooth. Roughly 41 to 77 days after the graft, when the researchers could be sure that the cells hadn't been rejected, the cells and hairs were removed from Reynolds' arm. DNA testing revealed that the cells contained X and Y chromosomes, indicating that they had to have come from Jahoda. What Jahoda and his team were able to demonstrate is that it is possible to create a new hair follicle by transplanting groups of these cells.

Jahoda says that Reynolds body did not reject the graft because sheath cells are unusual in being able to fend off attacks by the immune system. Jahoda now wants to see whether the hairs are completely normal and if the follicles will continue to produce hair for the lifetime of the recipient. Although the research was designed to test whether the graft would be rejected by the unrelated woman, the researchers were pleased by the surprising results. “It does show the potential of being able to induce new hair follicles in human skin which I don’t think has been done before,â€￾ said study head Colin Jahoda.

Jahoda believes that this technology may have an application in gene therapy but doubts that it will lead to a hair-loss treatment. This however does not mean that another researcher will not use this technology as part of a new technique designed to clone hairs.

I am really surprised no one else seems to have heard of this. It happened a while ago and was in the videos on this site. It seems to suggest that hair does not get rejected like other organs.
 
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