Follica

[Pentarou]

Hell, I completely agree with you on that.

[hellouser]

What we really need is clarification from Follica and/or UPenn directly, we can't keep going on like this. I'm as aware as anyone that they are most likely years from release and even that's not guaranteed, but the uncertainty is the bitch. Everything is completely contradictory.

Youre not going to get clarification from anyone other than the typical corporate answer. Even if you got clarification, it would be so vague that it would raise more questions than answers. Historically speaking, its almost always been the case.

Its best to take everything they say with a grain of salt. A very fine grain of salt.

But what we DO know is that Follica is midway in human clinical trials. Thats not really up for debate. So all the speculative talk isn't helping. Like I've said in other threads, we need to replicate their method and do wounding/healing/follicle neogenesis ON OUR OWN.

[crafter]

Forget them, you will be waiting until 2050 for Follica... we need to focus on Dr Nigam and Dr Mwamba right now... imagine how scared Follica will be when Dr Mwamba (an ISHRS surgeon) starts offering Nigams doubling at his clinic? Follica will deserve what they get for keeping us waiting all this time!!!

If Dr Mwamba endorses what Nigam is doing then we can throw DUT and FIN in the garbage... just use toppik to conceal hair loss until we get doubling procedure which Dr Mwamba states has the potential to take NW6/7 back to NW2.

you really believe Dr Nigam? have you seen the questionable photos on his site?

I'll believe it when i see it.

[UK_]

What we really need is clarification from Follica and/or UPenn directly, we can't keep going on like this. I'm as aware as anyone that they are most likely years from release and even that's not guaranteed, but the uncertainty is the bitch. Everything is completely contradictory.

Forget them, you will be waiting until 2050 for Follica... we need to focus on Dr Nigam and Dr Mwamba right now... imagine how scared Follica will be when Dr Mwamba (an ISHRS surgeon) starts offering Nigams doubling at his clinic? Follica will deserve what they get for keeping us waiting all this time!!!

If Dr Mwamba endorses what Nigam is doing then we can throw DUT and FIN in the garbage... just use toppik to conceal hair loss until we get doubling procedure which Dr Mwamba states has the potential to take NW6/7 back to NW2.

[UK_]

I do not agree with you UK, I don't think the Nigam doubling technique will have a superior result of follica

Your name is not Dr Mwamba and you are not an ISHRS hair loss surgeon, I would rather listen to him than you thank you very much.

Why would Dr Nigam invite Dr Mwamba over to his clinic if Dr Nigam is trying to mislead people?

Dr Nigam does the splitting in vitro - he is on to something.

[crafter]

so this video is nearly 3 years old and Cotsarellis says a treatment could be available in a few years if all goes well, so that would mean 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaLaMBHIdBs

I've emailed Follica but never got a reply. I personally believe they are only after publicity so they can fund their pensions; not because they really believe they can release a treatment, i mean Cotsarellis must be nearing retirement age. So, i think it's a scam. Their clinical trials aren't even on the clinicaltrials.gov website.

[Pentarou]

What we really need is clarification from Follica and/or UPenn directly, we can't keep going on like this. I'm as aware as anyone that they are most likely years from release and even that's not guaranteed, but the uncertainty is the bitch. Everything is completely contradictory.

[Artha]

I do not agree with you UK, I don't think the Nigam doubling technique will have a superior result of follica

[sdsurfin]

weightlifting

it has nothing to do with weights, tans, and shaving heads.

it has to do with building the important things in your life. positivity, success in business and friendships. self acceptance. The really tough things that everyone has to build. Whether you shave your head or not doesn't matter, i live in brooklyn and I see way more dudes with receded hairlines and bald spots than those without. and most of them are happy, have relationships and lives to live. very few of them look like vin diesel. I just saw facebook pics of my friend's friend, and the dude just married an extremely beautiful girl, and his hairloss is just about the same as prince williams'. Anyway, if you set your own value on who you can attract, then you also need to work on other things to value. There are a lot of completely retarded and useless attractive people out there. Use your baldness to make you tougher. I'm pretty sure kelly slater is the best surfer ever because he is bald. it made him want success more, and in return he got to bang gisele bundchen. Pretty sure she would have never banged him if he had tons of hair and was just a normal great lookin dude from florida.

I choose to stay fit, and if my balding gets bad soon, ill prob shave it all off, cause i think it looks better. it usually does. but thats really all beside the point. the point is to find the best road to happiness, and waiting for these treatments that clearly are not panning out anytime in the next two decades doesn't seem to be a good road. Hair transplants are pretty advanced, and look ok on the over 50 set, when most have thin hair anyway, but at that age i hope i won't care at all. If I do, it will probably mean i failed at other aspects of my life.

[sdsurfin]

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[UK_]

Meanwhile, in the Nigam camp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LLkEG8ljmk

[yeahyeahyeah]

Histogen is our only bet... everything has pretty much gone to shit.

Hopes were so high a couple of years ago for a 2015 release and now in the space of a year everything has literally fallen into pieces.

I agree tbh

Ive always said it.

[UK_]

Histogen is our only bet... everything has pretty much gone to shit.

Hopes were so high a couple of years ago for a 2015 release and now in the space of a year everything has literally fallen into pieces.

[Thinning87]

Histogen is our best bet.

They released a skin product - regenica. What's stopping them from doing it with hair?

Font change tue subject there is a Histogen thread

[yeahyeahyeah]

That's just an unecessarily longwinded variant on the 'shave your head, get a tan, do weightlifting' type post we see all the time on hair loss forums.

Histogen is our best bet.

They released a skin product - regenica. What's stopping them from doing it with hair?