Opening up about our biggest insecurity: balding!
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
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Summary
On today's episode, we get into our biggest insecurity... going bald! We discuss the differences between male and female hair loss, Greg’s hair loss journey from topical treatments to snarky remarks, and we ask the question… are bald men hot?
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| 0:00.0 | I just, |
| 0:00.3 | I look so bald right now. |
| 0:02.2 | No, |
| 0:02.7 | I mean, |
| 0:02.9 | you did just get a haircut. I'm literally at Jeff Bixos right now. Oh, yeah. I am. Look at me? You're not. I am. I'm freaking out. Controversial subjects with the facts can be tense, but we are a subscience here to make things make sense. Today we are talking about balding. |
| 0:21.8 | We're going to explain the science behind why it happens. |
| 0:27.0 | There's some new information on that. |
| 0:28.2 | We're going to talk about treatment options. |
| 0:30.0 | We're going to talk about incredible, fascinating facts about why humans go bald, men go bald, |
| 0:36.1 | women go bald, and they thems go bald. We all go bald. Well, actually, we don't all go bald, but bald women go bald and they them's go bald we all go bald well actually |
| 0:40.0 | we don't all go bald but any type of person can go bald so well 50% of Caucasian males are affected |
| 0:45.4 | by the age of 50 and did you know that woman and that that 80% of men and half a woman by the age of |
| 0:51.0 | 70 have increased balding but okay yeah like because balding doesn't necessarily mean you have to lose at all. Like some people lose all the hair, but some people have just like receding hair lines. Some people have thinning hair. Some people, you know, there's lots of options. Patches of the hair thinning. Um, matches of the hair. I don't know. I was just like, how do I say this? Um, and I think it is one of, |
| 1:16.0 | this is just my anecdotal sort of like guess that it's like one of the biggest sort of like |
| 1:21.0 | aging concerns for people like that is non-medical. Do you know what I mean? Not that it can't be a |
| 1:25.3 | medical condition, but like obviously aging you're |
| 1:28.6 | like worried about getting sicknesses or disease or that sort of thing but I think in terms of like |
| 1:33.6 | people think about wrinkles I think but I feel like hair loss is a lot more stressful hair loss |
| 1:40.3 | on the head yeah also no one knows androgenic alopecia if we're going to get absolutely, yeah, scientific on that. So where shall we begin? So I didn't realize it's like considered hair follicle miniaturization because a lot of the time like you'll still have tiny, tiny sad hairs that grow. Okay. Like it's not like the thick veilous. Yes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Veiless hair. Yeah. Good job. So it's linked to changes in dye high. Valis is the other one. That's why I was just checking. Veilis is the bottom. The peach fuzz. Yeah. Okay. What's the name of the thick one? |
| 2:18.2 | Terminal hair. |
| 2:19.1 | Got it. |
| 2:20.1 | Okay. |
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