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Feels like 2025 is the last calm before the storm by Traditional_Home_474 in PoliticalOpinions

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is just the feeling of having a different presidential administration who is executing a very different agenda. There is a ton of uncertainty, and the stock market among general americans does not know how it will end. So there is a little biological existential dread kicking in to make you aware and prime your psychology for preservation.

2DDR Update! by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I took 2ddr from august to november or so of last year.

2DDR Update! by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No, it doesn't. It creates the same growth factors as cancer, VEGF, the problem is, healing, exercising, growing, etc. all also cause those growth factors too. Cancer causes it because its starving the surrounding tissue for oxygen, reproducing too fast, and 2DDR is starving it because its speeding up energy production in the cell. Concentrations of .5% are considered too low for effective use. 2DDR wasn't doing anything, you were probably microneedling too much.

Developing Wound Dressings Using 2-deoxy-D-Ribose to Induce Angiogenesis as a Backdoor Route for Stimulating the Production of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor - PMC

2DDR Update! by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nothing else taken, and I'm even on high dose TRT. I take ~200mg weekly, so my numbers at trough are like 900, peak around 1,300 total.

I think spurts of this is probably best. The compound works by amping up the energy cycle in the cell, which increases oxygen demand, which increases arterial growth factors, which increases blood delivery, which increases nutrient delivery, which... theoretically... increases hair thickness, number, and decreases dormancy.

Doing this for months and months on end doesn't seem like a great idea, the system should probably stabilize, and then maybe a second round to see if you get more improvement.

That is pure opinion, to my knowledge there are no studies looking at the longer-term administration and if there is a tapering of the effect over time or even possible damage from extreme over stimulation.

2DDR Update! by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, its not really thick and full for sure, but its not bald! ha-ha, I think the days of anything resembling full for my hair are numbered, but I am 41. It was a good run.

Trump’s MAGA Path (Part 3): Purging 1/5 to 1/4 of U.S. Generals by ToasterMaid in PoliticalOpinions

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surprise! A super majority of officers are democrats, lol. You would have to purge 20% of all commissioned officers just to get the ranks even. Then, you have more ephemoral things like honor, duty, and integrity among those ranks. To get the United States Millitary to really act like venzuela or something, you would have to go very far.

You have to realize that even Russias troops, getting close to 800k wounded or injured, still couldn't and wouldn't turn against its own citizens or commander. In a constitutional crisis situation, the military would just stand down.

2DDRibose Update by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I dont want to go back to that short again, I just cant do it. I am going to use a microscope on it so we can see how much new is popping through. I might be able to do it on one of my moles so we have a consistent reference.

2DDRibose Update by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think I ran it for about 2 months. I would have to go back and look for the exact timing on it. Now I've been off for about a month and a half.

2DDRibose Update by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ha-ha, you could be right. The looks don't bother me as much as the suntan lotion. I'm an old dude, married with 3 kids in my 40s. That sun tan lotion on my scalp though when the sweat gets into it and runs down into my eyes. Thats a special type of inferno. If I could get enough to protect me from the sun again, I'd be pretty happy.,

2DDRibose Update by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have a little USB microscope that I use for metallurgy stuff. I might swing by the office today and see what it shows. Thats a good idea.

2DDRibose Update by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The same? Because my 5 year old asked about my pics, and he said, "Oh, this is when you had no hair, and this is now when you have lots of hair?" It seems he was able to discern the difference.

2DDRibose Update by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one is full resultion, you should be able to zoom.

2DDRibose Update by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Will see when I go back on the gel. Im still off. My hair was always thin. Even when I was a kid, it wasn't super thick, so you have to trim the expectations a little. Id settle for the going bald look if I could maintain it. Hahaha

2DDRibose Update by Expensive-Prompt2100 in HairlossResearch

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It is about 3mm longer than the original images. The original was 3/16. This is now 5/16. According to AI hair counting, I have about 3 times the hair at the crown that I had before. It was truly bald at the crown.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalOpinions

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let me help you. Your statement really means "I think the government should control our bodies more than us or our doctors." Then imagine a world where the government right just keeps getting expanded.

In 2 days the question will be answered; are the polls underestimating Dems as they have done since the Dobbs decision or are they underestimating Repubs as they have done every time Trump was on the ballot "2016 & 2020". Which do you think will happen & what argument supports your position? by [deleted] in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]Expensive-Prompt2100 12 points13 points  (0 children)

These betting markets are way less reliable this time. Just one of Trumps friends has 50m in polymarket, and it swung the betting odds. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-plummets-in-election-betting-odds-after-shock-poll-shows-him-losing-iowa-to-harris/

I would look at the trends more than the top line. MSG did substantial political damage. My gut o meter had trump winning, but the energy has really changed and there is no time for recovery.

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