2013

[thechamp]

2013 and propecia and minoxidil and nizoral are our best options how pathetic when is this going to change !!

[john2399]

It is just pathetic.

[youngsufferer]

Mommy take care of me! Take care of me while I lay here and do nothing! You're not doing a good enough job!


No wonder our culture gets away with shaming baldness, look at how whiny bald men are.

[hellouser]

Dr. Roland Lauster needs to be given the go ahead and turn his findings into a treatment and a consumer treatment. The guy basically has the final answer but all this legal maneuvering he's gotta go through is whats holding us back.

[Pate]

No wonder our culture gets away with shaming baldness, look at how whiny bald men are.

I think you're confusing cause and effect there. Bald men are whiny and depressive because of the constant stream of shaming they have to put up with.

It is a pretty sad state of affairs though. It's been recognised for centuries that a baldness cure is a surefire path to riches, yet we're still here where the gold standard pharmacological treatment aims to simply delay your hair loss by a few years.

We've seen so many treatments since Propecia came on the market that promised to be better but faded into obscurity. The only one that seriously looked like it would challenge Propecia was RU, and the companies that have held the patent have sat on it for almost a decade now, forcing us to get it via slightly less-than-legal means, with no oversight or quality control.

And now we're still looking at 2015 at the absolute earliest before we get a new product, which will probably just be bimatoprost.

I'd say baldies have a lot to be bitter about.

[Pate]

Dr. Roland Lauster needs to be given the go ahead and turn his findings into a treatment and a consumer treatment. The guy basically has the final answer but all this legal maneuvering he's gotta go through is whats holding us back.

The other thing that is depressing, apart from the legal and administrative red tape they have to go through, is how hard it is for them to get funding.

Only Aderans has had enough funding. It really shows how nobody really believes any of them will find a true cure - because a true cure or even just a truly effective treatment would be a no-brainer of an investment.

But nobody wants to give them money, so obviously nobody believes they can do it.

[jgold]

we should form a posse / gang to force them to make us something that will work or help. realistic?

[jman91]

Maybe they should employ a crowd sourcing model to raise funds by making an an easy way to donate to these companies. Major lobby groups in america raise hundreds of millions a year by doing this. the giant demographic of sufferers would allow huge sums to be donated e.g if the 40 million hairloss sufferers in the US alone donated just $20 a year that would amount to 800 million dollars a year, with that kind of funding hairloss would be a thing of the past within 5 yrs....lets remember that companies like histogen are doing what they do with only 20-30 million dollars (that's just 75 cents a year from all US hairloss sufferes)! Maybe the bald truth admins should even set up a donations tool on this site.

[DepressedByHairLoss]

You're right, today's options are not only limited, but completely and utterly pathetic. Most of us are so determined to fight hair loss and we need much better options to do so. Yeah, Roland Lauster really does seem to have an awesome solution to hair loss. Hair loss treatments do not get the necessary funding because hair loss is not considered a life-threatening disease. And it gets so marginalized and made fun of in the media, that many people so very wrongly consider it to be a joke and not a big deal.

[Kirby_]

You're right, today's options are not only limited, but completely and utterly pathetic.

Barely better than useless, yes. It depresses me so much to see people doing ridiculous things to compensate like taking the current trendy food supplement of the season - one might as well pray to one's pet poodle to stop your hairloss than that.