Progress of upcoming treatments

[Seb89]

you stupid idiot... read my previous post.

What do you mean by HAIR INDUSTRY!? Hair industry is just a term for a group of companies that specialize in hair. Those companies operate INDIVIDUALLY, they COMPETE!
A dollar earned by Propecia is in theory a dollar loss for Rogaine and every other company that's part of the "hair industry". It's in their BEST INTEREST to come up with something better than Propecia to steer all that money flow to them and the best way to do it is to COME UP WITH A BETTER PRODUCT.
What part of this stops some company for finding a cure? Whoever does that will effectively destroy every competitor so why the hell not??

there is no ****ing conspiracy here. stop being so bitter.

I have to agree with this post and the logic.

Infairness, if one company comes up with the ultimate solution, the others are screwed, end of story, their all out of business. Where as the other one, will make more money than bill gates.

[gmonasco]

A dollar earned by Propecia is in theory a dollar loss for Rogaine and every other company that's part of the "hair industry".

Not really, because they aren't mutually exclusive treatments.

[Seb89]

When you're 40 or older and you start balding it's just a natural process of life.
Most of us are however here because we're prematurely balding. We are in our 20's, early 30's or even teenage years. We're in a stage of our life where our looks and more importantly our confidence is just a very important factor in making decisions and how we develop ourselves. We want to be the best we can be when we look for our potential life-partner or dream-job. We want to look young at the age we're at still young and not be regarded as 10 years older already.

TBH when I'm eventually 40, (hopefully) married, have kids, the job I wan't and suddenly a cure for baldness comes on the market; not sure if I'd still care.
If it's affortable, sure always a bonus, but I won't keep my sleep for it by then.

Completely and 100% with you on everything you just typed.

Now is the prime time to be going out with freinds meeting women and just enjoying oursleves, this bloody thing holds us all back in so many ways.

Try getting a hot 22 year old interested in a guy with a dodgy hairline. Like trying to remove blood from a stone.

People say its on the inside that counts. Utter rubbish. This is 2012 and looks are just as important as personality to pretty much everyone these days. Every magazine women buy focus on what people look like.

**** me, just depressed myself.

[gmonasco]

In fairness, if one company comes up with the ultimate solution, the others are screwed, end of story, their all out of business. Where as the other one, will make more money than bill gates.

I'd say it's rather unlikely one company is suddenly going to come out with an "ultimate" hair loss solution ahead of everyone else. It's more likely that over the course of years, a number of different companies will successively introduce incrementally better treatments than the previous "best" treatment.

[Seb89]

Obviously a very hypothetical scenario, but it could happen.

[Morbo]

I'd say it's rather unlikely one company is suddenly going to come out with an "ultimate" hair loss solution ahead of everyone else. It's more likely that over the course of years, a number of different companies will successively introduce incrementally better treatments than the previous "best" treatment.

Yeah that's what I believe as well.

[gmonasco]

Try getting a hot 22 year old interested in a guy with a dodgy hairline. Like trying to remove blood from a stone.

Maybe "hot 22-year-olds" shouldn't be your target group, then.

Every magazine women buy focus on what people look like.

Actually, women's magazines focus on what women look like -- in general, women have very different standards for judging attractiveness then men do. That's why, for example, fashion advertisers use photos of more muscular men in men’s magazines than they do in women’s magazines -- men tend to think women find bulkier men more attractive than they really do.

[gmonasco]

Obviously a very hypothetical scenario, but it could happen.

I think it's much less hypothetical than the notion that we're going to jump from having no real effective hair loss treatment at all to having the "ultimate solution."

[Seb89]

Maybe "hot 22-year-olds" shouldn't be your target group, then.
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When you have driven a ferrari you dont want to go back to a fiesta, or something along those lines.



Actually, women's magazines focus on what women look like -- in general, women have very different standards for judging attractiveness then men do. That's why, for example, fashion advertisers use photos of more muscular men in men’s magazines than they do in women’s magazines -- men tend to think women find bulkier men more attractive than they really do.

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Not true, my Ex bought plenty of those magazines, men feature as heavily in them as women.

[Seb89]

I think it's much less hypothetical than the notion that we're going to jump from having no real effective hair loss treatment at all to having the "ultimate solution."

Who knows what could pop up in the next couple of years, were in 2012. Plenty of people trying to do something about it and making progress, albeit slow and steady. How about a bit of optimism.

[sausage]

you stupid idiot... read my previous post.

What do you mean by HAIR INDUSTRY!? Hair industry is just a term for a group of companies that specialize in hair. Those companies operate INDIVIDUALLY, they COMPETE!

Thats what he means by hair industry, its pretty obvious, what did you think he meant, and like he said they are making loads of money.

Its pretty simple.

[2020]

Thats what he means by hair industry, its pretty obvious, what did you think he meant, and like he said they are making loads of money.

Its pretty simple.

what do you mean?

[Morbo]

Anyone still holding out hope for some type of replicel data q1 2012?

They said April 2012 in one of their recent announcements, so the only thing can do is wait and see. Some consider it the moment of truth, since these results will confirm if they can actually grow any hair on a human's head, which we still don't know till this point.

Edit: sorry actually replied to an older post, didn't see I was still on the first page of this thread.

[WashedOut]

They said April 2012 in one of their recent announcements, so the only thing can do is wait and see. Some consider it the moment of truth, since these results will confirm if they can actually grow any hair on a human's head, which we still don't know till this point.

Edit: sorry actually replied to an older post, didn't see I was still on the first page of this thread.

Good sign so far that they are 2 months away from when they are supposed to release info and they are sticking to that date without any backtracking. Even if they grow a little bit of hair somewhere would still be good for me because it proves it's possible to grow hairs on a human and would serve as a proof of concept to try and enhance.

[sausage]

I just wish they could get on with it and inject 3x as much.

How long do you think it will take them to build a facility to create this cure in large doses, open many clinics around the globe, etc etc.

That alone would surely take a long time.