Scar tissue is never gonna be doing us any favors in terms of hair growth IMO.
IMO there may be an argument for sunburns having (usefully) different effects. But that has to be weighed against the permanent UV damage.
Abrasions can be powerful for provoking healing responses. But between Follica and the last 100+ years of cosmetic industry (dearmabrasion, etc) that territory has already been explored.
I think Follica's wounding method is probably as good as it gets in the foreseeable future (for hair-regrowth purposes). They found a way to use needles and get the healing reactions of a deeper wound + the recovery process of a less-intense one. Follica has been a big disappointment on the drug side of the approach but they did good work on the wounding refinement IMO.
I'm still a big believer that Follica's core idea (skin wounding + drugs = new hair) is good. Great, in fact. There is enough scattered anecdotal evidence in the medical world to suggest that the human body is capable of growing all-new terminal hairs that way.
But after 15 years of research, Follica has epic-failed to produce any practical treatment progress (on the drug front). I dunno what else we can do here.
IMO there may be an argument for sunburns having (usefully) different effects. But that has to be weighed against the permanent UV damage.
Abrasions can be powerful for provoking healing responses. But between Follica and the last 100+ years of cosmetic industry (dearmabrasion, etc) that territory has already been explored.
I think Follica's wounding method is probably as good as it gets in the foreseeable future (for hair-regrowth purposes). They found a way to use needles and get the healing reactions of a deeper wound + the recovery process of a less-intense one. Follica has been a big disappointment on the drug side of the approach but they did good work on the wounding refinement IMO.
I'm still a big believer that Follica's core idea (skin wounding + drugs = new hair) is good. Great, in fact. There is enough scattered anecdotal evidence in the medical world to suggest that the human body is capable of growing all-new terminal hairs that way.
But after 15 years of research, Follica has epic-failed to produce any practical treatment progress (on the drug front). I dunno what else we can do here.
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