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    Quote Originally Posted by zephyrprime View Post
    I thought I would update this for anyone who is researching this like I just did.

    Ruxolitinib was tested on humans with autoimmune caused hair loss (alopecia areata) and it worked great.

    However, Ruxolitinib has already been approved by the fda since 2011 for the treatement of mylofibrosis. I'm sure thousands of people have already tried Ruxolitinib for mylofibrosis and no doubt thousands of these people already had common male pattern baldness. We have not heard anything about all these people regrowing their hair.

    The research into using Ruxolitinib for alopecia areata was probably initiated only after accidentally noticing that a few people with mylofibrosis also started re-growing their hair. Only about 15000 people in the US have mylofibrosis and only 1 in 1000 people have alopecia areata so only 15 people in the whole united states probably started regrowing hair as a consequence of using Ruxolitinib. The research into using Ruxolitinib for alopecia areata only began after rux had already been approved by the fda.
    Isnt AGA also an autoimmune disease ?

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