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"Vets have been left scratching their heads over the sudden hair loss of all the female bears at Leipzig zoo in Germany, the Daily Mail reported today. [...] All of the female bears have severe rashes and inflammations on their skin. Some experts are saying it could be the result of a genetic defect. [...] Other possible causes for hair loss in animals include stress and climate change."
https://www.belgraviacentre.com/blog/hair-loss-in-animals-bears-in-zoo-go-bald-374/

bald bear

I wonder what they feed these poor b#$%ards. I couldn't find any information on the ingredients which go into "bear chow"..
This was inspired by a recent thread on lowtoxinforum.com. The posters there are looking to drugs and supplements in order to cure their rampant male pattern baldness.

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That is a shame.  It is odd that it is only the females.  I would think it might be a fungus from too much estrogen and vitamin A.  Did they give these bears the clot shot?

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Quote from Eio on October 3, 2025, 1:03 pm

That is a shame.  It is odd that it is only the females.  I would think it might be a fungus from too much estrogen and vitamin A.  Did they give these bears the clot shot?

It happened in 2009, so no clot shot for these bears. I can't figure why only the females went bald.. but it got me thinking about the connection between a and hair loss. That took me to the reddit sub r/tressless. The most popular drug these people are taking appears to be finasteride, approved for medical use since 1992, eventually earning a black box warning for increasing the incidence of aggressive prostate cancer. The 1 star reviews of this drug are telling:

"As a consequence of my usage, I went on to rapidly develop post-finasteride syndrome - for me, characterized by continuously cold and numb genitals, muted orgasms, near absent libido, and weakened erections. It's been 2 years that I've been in this hell, and because of this, I have no sex or romantic life. I constantly regret taking this drug and think about what could have been had I never taken it."

"This drug moderately helped my hair loss, but it permanently damaged me. My penis has been completely numb for 16 months. I am 30 years old and I have to live with this for the rest of my life."

"This is not worth taking just to keep your hair. This drug literally caused my genitals to go permanently numb at 29 years old. Chemical castration in a bottle."

In my brief research I found a nutridouche utterly outraged by the warning: 

I responded to these allegations in the December 2013 edition of this magazine.5 In my rebuttal to Dr. Walsh and the FDA, I documented how drugs that lower PSA (like finasteride and dutasteride) not only help alleviate urinary symptoms related to benign prostate enlargement, but also reduce a man’s risk of developing prostate cancer. The evidence dating back to the 1994–2013 period was robust in my opinion.

source: https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2018/12/as-we-see-it

And what is the cause of hair loss, according to experts?

"Androgenetic alopecia is a genetically predetermined disorder due to an excessive response to androgens. This condition affects up to 50 percent of males and females and is characterized by progressive loss of terminal hair of the scalp any time after puberty."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430924/

How does western medicine have any credibility at all, is my main question. They cure nothing and they poison and impoverish the already sick. I've personally had hair growing up in places I never had hair before and I'm only 22 weeks in. High retinol in the sebaceous glands burns the hair follicles where sunlight hits the most. I don't see this as a theory but reality.

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Finasteride is a rabbit hole if there ever was one. Just check out its history:

Although finasteride came on the market in the 1990s, the underlying research began two decades earlier. The rationale for the drug emerged from a study of a unique group of people in a remote village in the Dominican Republic called Las Salinas. Locals there have long known about children who follow an unusual developmental path: they are initially raised as girls, but around age 12 they develop male characteristics. They are known locally as guabidós or guevedoces.1

In 1972, endocrinologist Julianne Imperato-McGinley, colleagues at Cornell, and a Dominican doctor traveled to Las Salinas to study people with this condition. They identified 24 people in 13 families who had been born with female or ambiguous genitalia, but developed male traits at puberty, a process they called virilization. The researchers observed a few traits which were different from typical males: when mature, they had no enlargement of their prostate, no acne and no recession of their hairline.

Dr. Imperato-McGinley and colleagues reported their findings in a series of papers, the first of which appeared in Science in 1974. The studied individuals were found to have a deficiency of the enzyme 5-alpha reductase (5-AR) which is needed for the conversion of testosterone into another androgen called dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Today, the condition is called 5-alpha reductase deficiency.

Because of the 5-AR deficiency, these individuals had low levels of DHT throughout their lives. Since DHT is required for male genitals to develop early in gestation, babies lacked male genitals at birth even though they had a male (XY) genotype. As mentioned earlier, around age 12 they developed male traits and tended to acquire a male psychosexual orientation. As they matured into adulthood, there were a few differences with typical male traits: people with 5-AR deficiency did not have enlarged prostates, acne or recession of their hairline. Researchers deduced that normal levels of 5-AR—and therefore DHT—are associated with prostate growth, acne and hair loss in men.

The head of Merck’s research division, Roy Vagelos, came across this research and identified a drug development opportunity: if 5-AR could be inhibited in adult males, it might emulate the traits associated with 5-AR deficiency, such as reduced growth of the prostate. Slowing prostate growth could treat a condition in aging men which causes urinary symptoms. Other possible applications were treatment of acne or slowing of hair loss. During the 1980s, Merck and other pharmaceutical companies undertook scientific work to develop a new class of drugs: 5-alpha reductase inhibitors.

In 1992, FDA approved Merck’s application for Proscar (finasteride), a 5-AR inhibitor, to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia. In 1994, Merck repurposed finasteride for the treatment male pattern baldness, to be taken by much younger men. This would be granted FDA approval as Propecia in 1997. Proscar was a 5 mg dose of finasteride while Propecia was a 1 mg dose.

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Reminiscent of genital abnormalities in the individuals in Dominican Republic, recent research has demonstrated an association of 5-ARI use with genital shrinkage and other penile abnormalities as described in this research review.

source: https://finasterideinfo.org/drug-information/how-was-finasteride-invented-history/

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The mental gymnastics and contortions would be hilarious if harmless.  It can not be poisons that are causing this problem.  Because we all know that poisons are the only way we can cure this problem.  It must be genetics.  Or some variation on genetics.

I remember when I started suspecting medical dogma for all the interlaced lies.  First I got off my antibiotics dependency.  Then I learned about mercury poisoning.  When I talked with the close family member who installed my mercury dental fillings, the argument came back "well what about everyone else who does not get mercury poisoning from their fillings."  

My reply was that they do get poisoned, that their symptoms were just milder.  The counter to that was that I might have a genetic disposition or that I might have an allergy to mercury or both.  Either way the steady unstated insistence was that I was not poisoned.  Even after acknowledging that mercury is the second most toxic element on the periodic table.  Even after acknowledging the mad hatter history of mercury.  I could not be poisoned since my mercury was inert.  

Everything is non-toxic no matter how toxic it turns out to be.  It is all allergies, genetics or some mystery virus / parasite / bacterium / fungi / pathogen.  But certainly no toxins are the cause.

BTW, who had a clue that was a bear at first glance?

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Quote from Joe2 on October 5, 2025, 1:17 pm

The mental gymnastics and contortions would be hilarious if harmless.  It can not be poisons that are causing this problem.  Because we all know that poisons are the only way we can cure this problem.  It must be genetics.  Or some variation on genetics.

Or the sufferer is just mentally ill and imagining it. Here are a few quotes from one (of many) papers from the experts which callously waves away the sufferers of "post finasteride syndrome":

The concept of PFS has emerged from reports of non-dermatologists, neuroendocrinological research and reflections, and uncontrolled studies of low quality and with a strong bias selection, while a significant nocebo effect among patients informed about possible side effects of finasteride is recognized. [...] There was circumstantial evidence that PFS may represent a delusional disorder of the somatic type, possibly on a background of a histrionic personality disorder, which would explain the refractoriness of the condition and a high degree of suggestibility.

I go on medscape from time to time to see what new candies are being given to the innocent children. The last rabbit hole was antiresorptive drugs given to people with osteoporosis (and even just elevated calcium in serum - gee I wonder what could cause that?) leading to "osteonecrosis of the jaw" which is a fancy pants way of saying that your face rots off. Dentists are wary for some odd reason of taking on new patients who are on these particular candies. Then there is the constant gaslighting of parents with autistic children - it isn't a deficit, it's a superpower! Just one comment from an article (on Medscape) from the Wellcome trust (Big Pharma) muddying the waters: 

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We know that genetics is responsible for about 90% of autism at least. To call it an affliction ignores the distinct benefits in terms of skills and abilities that many autistic people have that other people do not have. These skills have always brought huge benefits to society yet the nature of humans is to focus on deficits rather than benefit. 

This is just to make the point that all of these candies should be avoided if at all possible, and if not, well, buyer beware..

But back to the topic of hair loss, I was thinking more about it, and while the sun hitting most strongly where male pattern baldness develops is a clue, it isn't the whole picture. Where does the hot water hit primarily in a shower? What does heat do to the encapsulated retinoids? (everyone here already knows). Add to that accelerated stem cell differentiation (and eventual depletion) and it becomes not such a mystery after all. I wonder how many toxic chemicals are in the average man's shampoo, and if he understands what any of them do? How beneficial is hot chlorinated water to hair follicles? I mean to say that we have experts that can not (will not) find the root cause of anything, but as Joe2 pointed out the one thing it absolutely cannot be is poisoning. What is their expertise actually worth anyway?

 

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And this is what they admit to.

https://www.spinalcord.com/blog/medical-malpractice-the-third-leading-cause-of-death

Study: Medical Malpractice the Third-Leading Cause of Death

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death - Mad In America

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We know that genetics is responsible for about 90% of autism at least. To call it an affliction ignores the distinct benefits in terms of skills and abilities that many autistic people have that other people do not have. These skills have always brought huge benefits to society yet the nature of humans is to focus on deficits rather than benefit. 

I just looked at that again.  These last 5 years have clarified the most glaring deceptive practice these frauds use.  They make the most definitive remarks.  Remarks that are impossible to prove or disprove.  They are completely unfalsifiable.  They might as well say the sun is fossilized cow farts from trillions of years ago when the sun looked like the earth.  

Then they move on like their definitive statement is a given and everyone knows that and only an idiot or a fraud would doubt it.  Consensus science after all.

How is it remotely possible they could KNOW 90% of all autism is genetic?  AT LEAST?

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There isn't any point in arguing with those types, because they aren't writing in good faith in the first place. There's a meme Ms. Sarah Barnhardt keeps posting in regards to autism:

The bitter (for many) truth is that these drugs were never (ever!) about health. They were always about managing the decline. Always about the controlled (extremely profitable!) demolition of humans. And they're also taking the piss while they do it.
Back to male pattern baldness, I actually got useful results by searching yandex.com (and almost nothing but reddit results using startpage.com). This one fellow seems to be on to it:

The pathogenesis of male-pattern-baldness (MPB) is the same as acne. The first step in acne is a condition called follicular-hyperkeratinization or hyperkeratosis. Simply put, this means excess skin production inside and around the hair-follicle. The next step is caused by excess sebum production, followed by P.Acnes infestation of the pilosebaceous-follicle, with subsequent inflammation. So to summarize, MPB, just like acne, is caused by four main factors: (1) follicular-hyperkeratinization, (2) excess sebum production, (3) P.Acnes, and (4) inflammation [1].

https://www.baldtruthtalk.com/forum/men-s-hair-loss/hair-loss-treatments/7545-addressing-root-cause-of-male-pattern-baldness-a-well-known-approach

He only goes wrong on what is causing the hyperkeratosis.
Another thought I had today on this topic was that male pattern baldness also fits with where heat rises to in the human body. Heat is a trigger, as is drying (chlorine and sunshine have that effect).

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