GD9 CTW fileÒ  Medical002, Ú To get rid of their baldness, throughout history some men have eaten fried leeches, some have bathed their heads with ultraviolet light, some have applied everything from Rogaine to spray paint to olive oil to sperm shampoo, and some have undergone expensive surgical procedures. In this land of plenty, millions of men just don't have enough. Two out of five men suffer from some degree of what the medical profession labels alopecia and what everybody else calls baldness. In one recent poll, one-fourth of the men surveyed said they would sacrifice five years of their lives for a full head of hair. While advancements in transplant surgery have put it on the cutting edge of hair-loss treatments, don't think for a minute that it's the only hair-raising technique that bald men are trying. Is Rogaine the miracle cure for the hair-challenged? Does rubbing the stuff on your bald areas work? It depends on whom you ask. A spokesperson for the maker of Rogaine says that one-third of the people using the drug see really good results, one-third see satisfactory results, and one-third don't see any results. Thousands of years ago, one of the primary ingredients in the mixture to be rubbed onto the head was olive oil. Through the years, olive oil gave way to sperm shampoo and ultraviolet lights. Most products merely make the hair look thicker by coating it with a texturizing ingredient. A substantial portion of bald men still opt for the tried and true cure for hair loss: the wig.