Does tricomin block 5AR?

[Phillip]

I have read this a few times that it blocks 5 ar to a degree?

Any truth to it?

If so it would be antiandrogenic then wouln't it?

 

[Guest]

as far as i know it does not. it simply can keep hairs in the anagen phase longer and encourage growth. it won't stop balding by itself.

 

[MPBWarrior]

so basically, its like minoxidil?

 

[CCS]

it and minoxidil are growth stimunlants, but the tricomin works in a completely different way. Using both will probably give you results of both.

 

[gand]

is there any different between tricomin and AC??

 

[Guest]

is there any different between tricomin and AC??

yeah, ac is much cheaper!

hah.

seriously though, i think the new ac spray ingredients are not as effective as the old ones, from what i hear. if you want to save money i would use folligen spray instead of tricomin, or maybe use tricomin every morning and folligen every night. folligen can turn your scalp a greenish color temporarily sometimes so i'd use that one before bed instead of the tricomin. they haven't been tested against each other to determine the more effective one but by using each one once a day you will get the best of both.

 

[iamnaked]

folligen can turn your scalp a greenish color temporarily sometimes so i'd use that one before bed instead of the tricomin. they haven't been tested against each other to determine the more effective one but by using each one once a day you will get the best of both.

The staining is almost imperceptible. I would actually recommend Folligen in the mornings, because if you apply it at night it has a nasty habit of getting onto your pillows and sheets (where the staining _is_ obvious).

 

[CCS]

As noted above, the derivatives of the present invention are useful in stimulating the growth of hair in warm-blooded animals. While one of the characteristics associated with male pattern baldness is the severe diminution of hair follicles, use of the derivatives as described herein results in increased adipocyte formation, which is spatially and temporally linked with hair follicle formation, and is an integral phase of hair follicle formation (Hausman et al., Am. J. Anat. 161: 85-100, 1981). The results of the use of the derivatives as described herein are illustrated in FIGS. 3A and 3B, which are microphotographs of a control area and an area of enhanced hair growth, respectively. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 3B, the hair follicles 12 (dark objects) are embedded in a heavy field of large, subcutaneous fat cells 14 (white rounded cells) surrounded by blood capillaries 16.

The enhancement of subcutaneous fat in areas associated with increased hair growth is highly significant. Male pattern baldness is intimately associated with a dramatic reduction in the amount of subcutaneous fat associated with hair follicles that are nonproductive. Conversely, during periods of rapid hair growth in mammals, the subcutaneous fat content increase two- to threefold.

The derivatives of the present invention have clinical use in at least two primary areas: (1) the direct stimulation of hair growth in persons with hair loss, (2) the stimulation of hair transplants, and (3) increasing the subcutaneous fat content.

 

[CCS]

if they lowered the concentration because of the staining, then what is the blue dye for?

 

[JayB]

in other words, none of these products will make a guy with thinnning hair grow back thick hair. You will still look like you are thinning because you are.