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Hi everyone, I'm a 20 year old Korean male, in the past 3 years i have become overweight, bad diet, bad exercise out of sevre depression from losing my parents. I'm quite insecure about the whole situation but i'm really trying to find some answers. Lately I've been growing hair on my shoulders, and more hair on my forearms. Somewhat i can feel little hairs on my back and my chest. Now i don't think this is a genetic thing, my father and my whole family in males are all very hairless. Litterally they have no body hair on the shoulders, chest, or forearms where i do. Could this be because of my phsyical situation? Is it because i am overweight with a very bad diet and virtually no exercise? If it is the case, then if i reversed my situation into a 180 degree position would my hair situation go about the same way and would it stop growing? Or will it continue to grow? Honestly just thinking about it is quite depressing for me, but i'll get any help i can. My skin is very light, i would assume my hair is thick, and very black. If i were to get laser hair removal i assume i would have to get anywhere from 6-10 sessions? Would all the hair be gone as if it never grew to begin with? Would i ever need more sessions after the last one? Can i really be free of unwanted body hair?
How much would the whole procude cost? Anyways, any help is very much appreciated.

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Hi everyone, I'm a 20 year old Korean male, in the past 3 years i have become overweight, bad diet, bad exercise out of sevre depression from losing my parents. I'm quite insecure about the whole situation but i'm really trying to find some answers. Lately I've been growing hair on my shoulders, and more hair on my forearms. Somewhat i can feel little hairs on my back and my chest. Now i don't think this is a genetic thing, my father and my whole family in males are all very hairless. Litterally they have no body hair on the shoulders, chest, or forearms where i do. Could this be because of my phsyical situation? Is it because i am overweight with a very bad diet and virtually no exercise? If it is the case, then if i reversed my situation into a 180 degree position would my hair situation go about the same way and would it stop growing? Or will it continue to grow? Honestly just thinking about it is quite depressing for me, but i'll get any help i can. My skin is very light, i would assume my hair is thick, and very black. If i were to get laser hair removal i assume i would have to get anywhere from 6-10 sessions? Would all the hair be gone as if it never grew to begin with? Would i ever need more sessions after the last one? Can i really be free of unwanted body hair?
How much would the whole procude cost? Anyways, any help is very much appreciated.

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you are right about your lifestyle causing the hair growth. this sometimes does happen. it's recommended that you get back on track with your diet etc to improve the situation. the hair might fall out once you do, but if it won't, you can look into LHR. but you can't do it before you get your body back on track, because if you get LHR and don't become healthy again, your body will just be developing new hair there, so you won't see a big difference.

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It sounds like you are in a real dilemma. I know that it is very difficult, but the first steps you should take are starting and exercise (aerobic) program where you are working out every other day. You might start with 20 minutes and gradually increase. At the same time, watch the food you eat. When you start losing the weight and firming your muscles, you'll find that your self-esteem increasing. If you lose that unwanted hair in the process, its a win-win situation. You also won't have to pay the expense of getting rid of it.

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The hair you have is yours to keep until you have electrolysis or laser hair removal.
Because of your recent weight gain, bad diet, and depression, please please please get checked for insulin resistance. This is a pre-diabetic condition that can cause the pattern of hair growth that you have described. If are insulin resistant and don't get it under control with diet and or medication, you are setting yourself up for stroke, heart disease, and a lot more hair growth.

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LE is more than likely correct on his assessment as he is a whole lot more experienced and educated in this field than me. I thought it made sense that if one's lifestyle or bad habits caused one's body to deteriorate to the point where it was sprouting hair, that if this was corrected, the hair would stop growing. The bottom line is, developing good eating habits with exercise is always a good idea. It might not get rid of hair that is already there but it will help prevent a multitude of other sicknesses.

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If the unhealthy lifestyle is causing the hair, and the lifestyle becomes healthy, new hair growth would cease, but what's already there stays. The only instances that I know of where hair loss has happened is hair grown during pregnancy and downy hair that grew under a cast from the constant friction, and that's not guranteed.
By the way, LE is a she.

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thanks a lot LE. Well I don't really have that much hair.. I mean it's not that visible unless you were to really get close and anaylize it as much as i do. I never thought i would ever grow hair on my shoulders, So when i do get in great shape and everything is all out of the way, and when i qualify for LHR does that mean it will be easy to remove? I am a korean guy, so my skin complextion is very white, I'm not albino white or anything, but yeah. I'm pretty pale like. And of course my hair is very black. And right now I don't have that much hair, but the hair i do have is very very long, maybe even a bit over an inch so it seem as if i have more hair than i actually do. Also i grow hair in the wierdest places. Like not only on the sides of my shoulder but under my arm, i'm not talking arm pits but under my arms. It's small and not long yet, but it's there when i look. I'm trying to get in shape as soon as you told me what i thought to be true that my phsyical condition is the cause of all this. Also Are you near the New York area? You seem to know a lot about this whole ordeal so you sound like a great person to go to. I was also reading about how you dislike sona or whatever that other company is because they don't treat their clients like individual clients. Which would attract a client to you because everyone wants to get the most for what they pay for. Also, I've read a lot of testimonials and stories from other people on the web, not only from these forums but other forums. And i get a lot of mixed results from a lot of different people. Usually they're bad stories where they claim hair grows back, and they're not satisfied and happy especially after having put a lot of time in their sessions as well as the money they had to pay for the LHR. So i'm wondering... When I do get in shape, and get LHR would I ever see more hair on my shoulders, or wherever i got LHR done? I mean again, no one in my family, has any body hair, and usually geneticly koreans don't have barely body hair other than the private region. So would i really be free of hair when all the 6-9 or how many sessions i've paid for are done? Or will i be confronted with more hair in 3 years later after?

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how many hairs would you estimate you have? if you do have very little as you say, electrolysis might be a better method for you. but it depends on what you mean by "little"..

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Sorry, I'm not near NY and I don't have a laser YET. $till working on getting one!
Sounds like the hair is dark, but fine. I would probably try electrolysis first. Would be great if you can fine someone who can do both and get an honest opinion on which would benefit you most.
Is anyone in your family diabetic?

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Get checked for insulin resistance, C-peptide test. Hair on a Korean man's shoulders just screams insulin resistant to me. And if the test is negative, I'd still have it checked yearly.

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