So how close are we to a new 'cure'

[sausage]

I am on the verge of deciding whether or not to have a hair transplant within the next 6 months........

But day to day I hear about another potential cure/treatment which is listed on this forum.

Ideally I would like some views on how close we are to a significant step up from hair transplantation and current meds.........

What is out there that is looking promising.

Aderans
Histogen
Replicel
Stem Cell therapies
Something else.

[TO YOUNG TO RETIRE]

i like this thread,,,,,

can someone also enlighten us about ghos progress in hst 3.0 or how its called?

[walrus]

Intervention with the pdg2 pathway seems to have the most potential for the near future.

[BoSox]

According to Follica, I believe we are extremely close. I'd hold off on surgery, just maintain for now. It's coming soon.

[TravisB]

I think the NW7->NW1 cure won't come anytime soon. It might be even decades before we'll see it. The best chance is of course hair cloning, donor regeneration etc.. It's hard to imagine that they could have non surgical cure i.e. you inject something and BOOM you have NW1 soon.

However IMO there's a better chance we might see preventative cure that will keep our existing hair forever (i.e it will permamently protect our hair from DHT, prostaglandins etc.) in the near future. I don't think it'll happen earlier than 2020 unfortunately.

Remember that in early 2000s people also thought we would have a cure by now for example because of Intercytex. And what we have now? That's right - shit!

So I wouldn't be surprised if 10 years from now we still had nothing.

[sausage]

According to Follica, I believe we are extremely close. I'd hold off on surgery, just maintain for now. It's coming soon.

Follica hasn't proven anything yet though....

I am also guessing that by Follicas's method, hair will be prone to the effects of DHT, so the hair, over time, will fall out...

This would be annoying but if you could get treatment to counter-act the receding hair etc easily and at low cost then I guess I could cope.

[youngin]

Nigam is the only one being really proactive. At this rate he will probably crack the code and have a treatment before anyone else. IMO

[thechamp]

According to Follica, I believe we are extremely close. I'd hold off on surgery, just maintain for now. It's coming soon.

Where is the evidence that follica has the cure

[KO1]

I believe we are many years, if not generations away from a "cure".

[hellouser]

I believe we are many years, if not generations away from a "cure".

Your belief is wrong.

[TravisB]

Your belief is wrong.

And what do you base your opinion on?

So far we haven't seen anything even remotely close to a cure. They grow single hairs all the time. No one was able to create cosmetically significant result yet.

[hellouser]

And what do you base your opinion on?

So far we haven't seen anything even remotely close to a cure. They grow single hairs all the time. No one was able to create cosmetically significant result yet.

Lausters work and Tsuji Labs isn't remotely close to a cure?

Wow.

[KO1]

What exactly has Lauster done? We have been hearing about his groundbreaking work for years. Clinical trials? I don't believe he is even focused on AGA, and is focusing on drug delivery via hair follicles.

[hellouser]

What exactly has Lauster done? We have been hearing about his groundbreaking work for years. Clinical trials? I don't believe he is even focused on AGA, and is focusing on drug delivery via hair follicles.

Lauster's work was aimed at eliminating the need for testing products on animals, thus he created artificial skin WITH hair follicles from stem cells. This was 3 years ago. Basically, he made an endless supply of follicles as well as skin for cosmetic companies to test their products on. He did say plans for clinical trials for hair restoration via follicle creation were under way, but that was also 3 years ago and nobody has heard anything since.

[sausage]

I think everything we have heard about is up in the air one way or another....

Several methods even if they worked would still be prone to DHT. There is nothing to say that anything in progress is capable of creating solid results. Dr Nigam I am afraid to say seems hard to believe because of other things he does.

It is hard for any of us to know what is really happening out there. I personally cannot wait much longer....

I think I will proceed with my research into a hair transplant and may be close to going ahead with it.