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In a survey of 10,000 men aged 30-69 conducted by functional-materials maker Singhee, 50.0% said they had a physical concern, and among them the single biggest worry was “thinning hair/hair loss” (20.0%). “Body shape/weight” (16.7%) and “sleep” (13.9%) followed, with men in their 40s posting the highest rate at 24.2%. On 5ch, stories from men maintaining their hair with treatments like minoxidil and finasteride mingled with voices of those who shaved their heads and walked away from the worry altogether, as opinions split between “you stop caring about looks once you’re older” and “deep down, people instinctively dislike baldness.”
In a survey by Singhee (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), a supplier of functional materials, the top physical concern among men turned out to be “thinning hair/hair loss.”
The survey was conducted online in August among 10,000 men aged 30 to 69. Asked whether they had any physical concerns, 50.0% answered “yes.” The single biggest worry was “thinning hair/hair loss” at 20.0%, followed by “body shape/weight” at 16.7% and “sleep” at 13.9%.
Broken down by age group, those citing “thinning hair/hair loss” made up 19.5% of men in their 30s, 24.2% in their 40s, 21.3% in their 50s, and 15.2% in their 60s.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
(´･д･`) here we go again with the hair talk (ASCII art of a comb-over/balding head)
Once you're past 40, you've got bigger things to worry about than hair — fat, blood vessels, your organs…
Though aside from fat, you won't even notice those unless you get regular full checkups and health screenings…
So which was the better deal, really?
Plenty of bald guys get seriously ill too, you know?
My scalp used to show through, now I've got a normal head of hair growing (and I'm maintaining it)
Scared of getting injured lol
Might as well pick up a part-time gig as a monk while you're at it lol (坊主 means both 'shaved head' and 'Buddhist monk')
A lot of men like to look good,
and since hairstyle gets treated as a social marker of being cool,
maybe losing that just feels like a crisis?
For what it's worth, I keep mine super short and prioritize looking clean. I think that's the way to go once you hit your 50s.
Generally speaking, a buzz cut does pretty well with gay guys
"The one who spurned me — never did I pray to Hatsuse's mountain wind to blow this fierce." (a classical waka from the Hyakunin Isshu; people use it as a mnemonic because 'hageshikare' [blow fierce] sounds like 'hage,' meaning bald)
My kid memorized it the exact same way.
That's just unfair
It's not that they look cool despite being bald — they're cool for reasons that have nothing to do with looks, so the baldness just stops registering.
The real question is whether you can keep building value beyond appearance as you age, or whether you can still take on new things, even small ones, no matter how old you get. If you've got that, looks become secondary.
Nobody cares about that stuff anymore at that point, so relax
The generics are dirt cheap, so why isn't everyone taking them?
There's always a certain number of people who stubbornly refuse to touch medication.
Probably because they watched a relative take a ton of drugs near the end of their life, or while fighting cancer, and got it drilled into their head that the medicine is what made things worse.
In reality it was the terminal illness or the cancer, but people like that are convinced it was the drugs' fault.
What blooms is hair — but only in dreams.
HAGE & Gifuhabu (meme-speak / wordplay, exact joke unclear)
people slap a negative image on you as a person.
Just look at how every TV news anchor has a full head of hair —
that tells you everything you need to know.
I don't know what it is, but instinctively, people just dislike baldness…
50 strands from washing
100 from towel-drying
30 from blow-drying
(´・ω・｀)
It's humanity's eternal, unsolvable problem.
Minoxidil is classified as a potent/restricted drug, so rich people won't touch it.
Finasteride is the only one that's approved, but that just slows the progression — you'll still go bald eventually.
It's one thing if you're around 50, but starting around 30 has to be rough.
I wish society were a bit more understanding about it.
Nobody mocks a woman for wearing a wig
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The “20.0%” figure from this survey isn’t a share of all 10,000 respondents — it’s the top answer within the 50.0% who said they had a physical concern at all, which works out to roughly one in ten men overall. Reading it as “20% of men worry about thinning hair” tends to overstate the real picture. In the thread, accounts of men maintaining their hair with treatments like minoxidil and finasteride sat right alongside those who chose to shave their heads and step away from the worry entirely — less a matter of which choice is “correct” and more just personal taste. Several commenters also noted that as people get older, their interest in appearance itself tends to fade, making hair-loss worries relatively less significant over time — a shift that the raw survey numbers alone don’t capture.
※This article has been excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Flash+) thread “Survey of 10,000 Men Finds Top Physical Concern Is ‘Thinning Hair/Hair Loss’.”
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