Baldness cure still ten years away:(

[hellouser]

Who gives a s**t about the next generation?


People, don't waste your time waiting for some miracle cure or treatment. It's not going to happen any time soon. Call me a pessimist or whatever. THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING. Saying it's going to take 10 years is also being "optimistic" -not that I believe in such absurdities and superstitions such as optimism and pessimism. As many of you know, "in 10 years..." is something we've been hearing for the past 30 years if not more. And we still don't have a cure. Yeah yeah yeah , we have better knowledge and technology these days blah blah blah. We want to see results. And while we might be unto something, we can almost be assured (unfortunately) it aint going to be in the near future.

If you can afford it, go and get an HT. That's the closest you're going to be to having hair on your head. It's not a perfect solution but it's the only one we have and it IS still better than being bald, and better than being tortured by your hair loss worries.

You should take this rage, walk into an Aderans office and throw it at the board of executives.

It'll be far more productive than slamming any companies efforts on a public forum.

[Morbo]

Everytime I read these articles about a 'baldness cure'-breakthrough I have to think about this article I encountered on a forum during one of my 'google searches' about a finding of Dr. George Cotsarelis and his team. More than half of the people on that hairloss forum (which greatly reminded me of this forum and the euphoria during the early replicel reports when I joined this forum 2 years ago) were going like "alright 2 years... 5 years at max ... in 10 baldness it will definitely be eliminated!"
... unfortunately the article and the forum post were from 2004.
9 years later, it's still zippo.

Than I have to think about this article I read from 2011:

The "growth factor", sh-VEGF, that Nanogen claims to have discovered, and which can supposedly "reawaken dormant hair follicles", is also significant, according to Farjo. "A growth factor sets off protein in the body that triggers various processes... they flow in the body naturally. But a growth factor can also retard growth as well as promote it. The research is all about trying to figure out how to introduce more of the positive growth factors."

Farjo emphasises that "curing" baldness – which, after all, is completely natural and therefore doesn't require a cure – is still a long way off. "We definitely have a lot more information now than five or 10 years ago – but curing baldness could, in the long run, be as difficult as curing cancer."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/17/beauty-stem-cells

Let's be honest, everytime we read these articles about 10 years, it basically means they have no concrete trail to follow, but they just think there is 'something'. When I was a kid and people were talking about 10 years, they were using it in the context of flying cars, robots and space colonization. 10 years is a long time.

I do believe that one day there will be a cure. But by that time I'll be long old, bald and grey and perhaps wont be beating myself up about a future partner, but when my grandkids are coming by.^^

[Kirby_]

Why does everything have to be a 'cure'? As long as new treatments emerge that maintain and regrow decently and safely, preferably without daily application/dosage, that should do most of us through until we're all dribbling and senile.

[burtandernie]

Yeah i would be more then happy just to keep the hair I have my head right now even if I cant regrow or get back every single hair I used to have.
Preventing MPB would be a cure to me. Someday we will go from NW 7 back to NW 0 with hair multiplication or some variant of that, but its always going to be a pain to do, expensive, and just like a hair transplant today. Its much much better to keep your hair then lose it all and try to get it all back

[VictimOfDHT]

Why does everything have to be a 'cure'? As long as new treatments emerge that maintain and regrow decently and safely, preferably without daily application/dosage, that should do most of us through until we're all dribbling and senile.

Cure, treatment, something to stop further loss.... Whatever, it's all the same. And so far, we have none of those, well, except for something that barely works for most people (Fin and Minox).

[Jasari]

Cure, treatment, something to stop further loss.... Whatever, it's all the same. And so far, we have none of those, well, except for something that barely works for most people (Fin and Minox).

Technically something that stops future loss is a cure - It means that anyone who is about to start thinning quite frankly won't.

Unfortunately the currently generation of hair loss sufferers getting 'cured' isn't the same thing as 'a cure' for hair loss.

[burtandernie]

I think CB 03 01 could prevent MPB if it turns out to be strong enough with a good enough vehicle then it could work topically with little sides. I think androgens are still one of the best bets for preventing MPB.
Regrowing lots of hair is a whole different ball game. Luckily I am in a position to be happy just keeping my hair.

[Thinning87]

for how much longer

[Pentarou]

I think CB 03 01 could prevent MPB if it turns out to be strong enough with a good enough vehicle then it could work topically with little sides. I think androgens are still one of the best bets for preventing MPB.
Regrowing lots of hair is a whole different ball game. Luckily I am in a position to be happy just keeping my hair.

Are they making any progress with that? Has anything been announced over the last year or so? Any presentations at the congress in May? It's too quiet on that front.