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paleocapa89 · Feb 21, 2017

A theoretical question about Follica's approach:

If they are indeed able to produce de novo hair follicles with skin disruption (even if only in low numbers), why couldn't we create hair follicles on the donor zone of our head then transplant them then repeat the process until we get a full head of hair.

coolio · Feb 21, 2017

If they are indeed able to produce de novo hair follicles with skin disruption (even if only in low numbers), why couldn't we create hair follicles on the donor zone of our head then transplant them then repeat the process until we get a full head of hair.

The implication being that Follica's new hairs will have the same kind of balding problem that the originals do? IMO we don't really know enough to make that assumption.

The new hairs will never see the enormous onslaught of androgen exposure that our original hairs got during puberty, or the lingering high androgen levels in our later teens & twenties. And the fact that they were created in a body with adult androgen levels from the beginning may change the game too.

Even our very balded hairs are taking many years to succumb. (How many years ago were you in puberty?) Even if Follica's new hairs don't last any longer than the originals that might still be a decade or more (while your androgen levels are continuing to fall as you age).

The transplant process is so invasive, scarring, inconsistent, expensive, even in the best of hands . . . I think most guys would end up preferring to just repeat Follica's procedure more times, rather than mess with doing huge amounts of transplantation.