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Could I donate mine to you? Been shaving my head for the last 20 years and I cannot wait for it to stop growing eventually... Seemingly it grows faster every year, as I need to continuously increase how often I trim it, I simply want less hair.

Edit: I love that someone downvoted me for offering my hair follicles to a random stranger, downvotes truly happen randomly here :)

[stavros]

You can't donate follicles, but you can do IPL! All us bald(ing) people will hate you, though.

[ratg13]

You can't donate hair follicles .. it has to come from your own body

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But all these people in Turkey walking around with their brand new hair follicles, aren't those from other people? Or from the same person, just elsewhere?

[Tangurena2]

The follicles come from the back of your head. Feel your head, there's an area where the skull and vertebrae meet. Place your hand over that area. That's the "donor" area. Follicles on the front of your scalp are sensitive to DHT (what your body metabolizes testosterone into) for many humans. This is where male pattern baldness happens.

[sonic45132]

They take your existing hair follicles from areas that aren't thinning and move them to the thinning or bald area.

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So in theory if I want less head-hair and more chest-hair, I could in theory do this by moving the hair follicles? Interesting stuff.

[Tangurena2]

That would not be practical. Visible body hair (and head hair) is "terminal hair". Peach fuzz is "vellus hair". Androgens turn vellus hair into terminal hairs (and are also the driving force for male pattern baldness). There was a big stink on social media about the character Aloy in the game Horizon who had vellus hairs visible on her face - like every other human woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_hair

[PyWoody]

Buddy, I hope you have a glove on because you're about to catch these fists!