cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39990070

Hair trade offer

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[–] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Gray hair can look lovely. I accept

One can’t say the same for skin cancer.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Any cap here with a good explanation?

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    When old cells are damaged they are at risk of turning into cancer. Many of them rather die (apoptosis) or turn senescent (in that case they can't produce melanin to make color of hair).

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    While it's not a good trade you'd rather have gray hair if it meant you didn't get melanoma

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't the idea just to slowly kill them?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago*

    Killing should work for many tissues, especially those whose cells still divide. But for some tissues it is problematic. Killing senescent cell from muscle would make the whole muscle fiber to break. Killing senescent neuron could lead to loose of some cognitive or other function. So part of dealing with senescent cells is to modulate them so they do not vomit senescence associated secretary phenotype (SASP) which is quite annoying to other cells. Ultimately, we could rejuvenate senescent cells so they would work properly, but that seems much harder than other options.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Well not having hair is very similar to having grey hair in terms of asthetics precived by most people, so this isn't really the trade we are making.

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