How close are we? Really?

[UK_]

No this is how the future looks Desmond:

2013-2016: "cure is five years away".

2017-2020: "cure is five years away".

2021-2025: "cure is five years away".

2025 & Beyond: "cure is five years away".

Conquered solar system: "cure is five years away".

Interstellar travel is commonplace: "cure is five years away".

[Desmond84]

Uh brother, why so upset man! Things will work out...trust me! Did you try the bi-weekly fin regimen? UK_ halt your hairloss for a few years till we get our hands on CB, then we're good till the real cure comes out!

You have to give it a shot man...I hate to see you so miserable!

[UK_]

Uh brother, why so upset man! Things will work out...trust me! Did you try the bi-weekly fin regimen? UK_ halt your hairloss for a few years till we get our hands on CB, then we're good till the real cure comes out!

You have to give it a shot man...I hate to see you so miserable!

I'm on 0.25mg every two weeks... I dont even think this is remotely effective... but it's the only way I can avoid SOME of the side effects.

Yeah, even at this amount I get sides (testicular pain, low sex drive etc).

**** this shit.

Desmond are you on Minox?

[The Dark Knight]

No this is how the future looks Desmond:

2013-2016: "cure is five years away".

2017-2020: "cure is five years away".

2021-2025: "cure is five years away".

2025 & Beyond: "cure is five years away".

Conquered solar system: "cure is five years away".

Interstellar travel is commonplace: "cure is five years away".

Oh God, I can't stop laughing, that would certainly explain captain Picard

[Desmond84]

I'm on 0.25mg every two weeks... I dont even think this is remotely effective... but it's the only way I can avoid SOME of the side effects.

Yeah, even at this amount I get sides (testicular pain, low sex drive etc).

**** this shit.

Desmond are you on Minox?

Are you? That is great news man Keep at it...believe me. It will definitely halt your hairloss. The first 6 months is different shed cycles! You dont know what is happening. Everyday is a roller coaster and then voila...all hairloss stops and you notice tiny bit og regrowth

I'm only on fin and Nizoral twice weekly...thats it!

Don't use Minox yet...give fin 12 months before adding something else

EDIT: I just realised you wrote every 2 weeks! That is very low indeed! That's OK though...work ur way up slowly....ur libido should improve over time

[Occulus]

15 years, minimum. Nothing in the pipeline is promising enough to suggest it will produce marketable results, and even if one of them did, none of them are close to market under the best of circumstances. Don't kid yourself - Histogen, Replicel et. al are failures; if any of them had shown real promise, they would have been bought out by a major pharma a long, long time ago.

If a cure happens within that timeframe, it will be from a protocol that has yet to be announced. The next treatment - not cure, not game-changer - to make it to market (IF it makes it to market) will be a bimatoprost topica that will have results slightly better than minoxidil.

[534623]

15 years, minimum. Nothing in the pipeline is promising enough to suggest it will produce marketable results, and even if one of them did, none of them are close to market under the best of circumstances. Don't kid yourself - Histogen, Replicel et. al are failures; if any of them had shown real promise, they would have been bought out by a major pharma a long, long time ago.

If a cure happens within that timeframe, it will be from a protocol that has yet to be announced. The next treatment - not cure, not game-changer - to make it to market (IF it makes it to market) will be a bimatoprost topica that will have results slightly better than minoxidil.

+1

Unfortunately, you're right. Especially when it comes to the bold parts of your post.

Personally, I think real working/improved (but unfortunatly pricy) hair doubling procedures will dominate during the coming 10-15 years as "cure" for many guys out there. Such procedures shouldn't (normally aren't) much more dramatic than doing dermarolling procedures, but far more effective and, of course, PERMANENT.

[UK_]

15 years, minimum. Nothing in the pipeline is promising enough to suggest it will produce marketable results, and even if one of them did, none of them are close to market under the best of circumstances. Don't kid yourself - Histogen, Replicel et. al are failures; if any of them had shown real promise, they would have been bought out by a major pharma a long, long time ago.

If a cure happens within that timeframe, it will be from a protocol that has yet to be announced. The next treatment - not cure, not game-changer - to make it to market (IF it makes it to market) will be a bimatoprost topica that will have results slightly better than minoxidil.

If you're going to say "15 years" then I'm going to say "5000 years" - because both estimations are as accurate as each other being as though they've been literally pulled out of our asses.

[Scientalk56]

I think this is a safe estimate to make assuming all listed treatments come to fruition:

2013-2016: Finasteride & Minoxidil

2017-2020: CB-03-01, Histogen's HSC, Replicel, Follica

2021-2025: Tsuji Lab (True Hair multiplication)

2025 & Beyond: Luminescent hair

Sadly I think its an "optimistic timeline".
This is the best case scenario.
The problem is, no one is proven to reverse baldness.. maybe grow some hair.. and untill then i will be norwood 7..

[Kiwi]

Sadly I think its an "optimistic timeline".
This is the best case scenario.
The problem is, no one is proven to reverse baldness.. maybe grow some hair.. and untill then i will be norwood 7..

Of course something none of us know about might get released tomorrow. None of us know :P