Anyone else fed up about hearing possible cure

[UK_]

When I began to lose my hair eight years ago, hair cloning was five years away and had been 'five years away' for about three years! There's a good and a bad reason why people always say five years: the good reason is that's how long clinical trials and FDA approval normally takes; that's the length of time between a plausible solution and the product getting to the market.

But can you recall any such treatments being in clinical trial back then? (bar the more recent, Intercytex). Regarding hair cloning, they were only at the theoretical plausibility of the procedure, nothing was being actually put through clinical trials.

[Spex]

I have been a long time and its always 5 years away

[I Wish Hair Grew]

Like I've said in another thread

Talks of how great something will be, versus how great and effective it is now, has been the reoccurring theme in hair loss for years

[UK_]

So over the past 20 years we have always had items like Acell, PRP, Histogen, Aderans, Trichoscience, Follica, Berlin Tech etc etc?

It is clear that there is continued growth in our understanding of hair loss, it would be silly to assume someone is just gonna throw on the table a cure, but the developments today by far outweigh the developments over the past 20 - 30 years.

[I Wish Hair Grew]

Who cares about products that are not consistent?
who cares about products that does not achieve hair density?

None of the products you suggested is a cure for balding, but they are implicitly being referred to as the closest possible alternative to a real cure by the public relation folks of these products and those of us who want to prematurely praise the "potential" versus the reality of a product

I have no problems with and I appreciate the research and efforts of the many great men/women who are putting in work on such a trivial cosmetic "problem," but I also would like non-vague and non-fluff reports about trial results that included these products.

If you factor in HT doctors who are not being 100% honest about the effectiveness of these options, you are now being bombarded with so many contradicting tales that folks could easily get frustrated

The mere fact that there are Acell, PRP, Histogen, Aderans, Trichoscience, Follica, Berlin Tech etc etc suggest that our knowledge of hair loss is not as good as we would like to believe because each of these products take different approaches to dealing with balding and/or each have their own main ingredient

[RichardDawkins]

Not entirely correct, they have different approaches but aim for one identical goal :-) except this german university, they really create a whole follicle which was really a surprise to me

[HairyDude]

There will never be a cure because baldness isn't a disorder or illness.

[matlondon]

There will never be a cure because baldness isn't a disorder or illness.

There will be a cure to much money at stake, a cure will not reduce demand nor will it reduce demand in 100 years. There will always be new candidates and always be a profit.

[gmonasco]

There will never be a cure because baldness isn't a disorder or illness.

Neither, technically, is poor eyesight.

[matlondon]

There will never be a cure because baldness isn't a disorder or illness.

Well they have proof that the stem cells for the hair bud dont work well, so i could be seen as a illness.