I'm attempting to save up for lab equipment/supplies and attempt to grow completely new hair follicles (using stem cells/dermal papilla cells) and I wanted to see what your thoughts on either one is? Mine currently:
Reviving and maintaining
Pro's
- No crowding new follicles on your head.
- Stem cell count over the entire scalp of a balding man is claimed to be exactly the same and are just missing progenitor cells to grow terminal hairs.
Cons
- This route requires maintenance throughout your life by stimulating progenitor cells/supplementing growth factors.
- Follicles in completely bald slick scalps may have produced scarring/cysts/some kind of cellular damage that may prevent normal healthy terminal hairs from ever regrowing.
Growing new hair follicles
Pro's
- If hair on different area's of our head are indeed more resistant to Dht/etc, growing new hair follicles using stem cells from dht resistant follicles/area's would allow for 0 maintenance.
Cons
- If hair falls out because the environment is actually different over our scalp and would attack every hair follicle equally then these new hairs would only last as long as the original ones.
- New hair follicles create new sebaceous glands/components and overcrowding may be an issue.
- It's logical new hairs will compete for nutrients though vellus hairs would (I assume) not require much anymore.
I most likely left out some good and bad but it was just a quick write up off the top of my head. A part of me says I should just wait a few more years and we'll have something being experimented on that can kickstart our hairs to grow at least in area's that have existing hair. Though, in area's that have gone completely bald I believe those follicles might have to be replaced. That means I should just go ahead with my research anyway.
Reviving and maintaining
Pro's
- No crowding new follicles on your head.
- Stem cell count over the entire scalp of a balding man is claimed to be exactly the same and are just missing progenitor cells to grow terminal hairs.
Cons
- This route requires maintenance throughout your life by stimulating progenitor cells/supplementing growth factors.
- Follicles in completely bald slick scalps may have produced scarring/cysts/some kind of cellular damage that may prevent normal healthy terminal hairs from ever regrowing.
Growing new hair follicles
Pro's
- If hair on different area's of our head are indeed more resistant to Dht/etc, growing new hair follicles using stem cells from dht resistant follicles/area's would allow for 0 maintenance.
Cons
- If hair falls out because the environment is actually different over our scalp and would attack every hair follicle equally then these new hairs would only last as long as the original ones.
- New hair follicles create new sebaceous glands/components and overcrowding may be an issue.
- It's logical new hairs will compete for nutrients though vellus hairs would (I assume) not require much anymore.
I most likely left out some good and bad but it was just a quick write up off the top of my head. A part of me says I should just wait a few more years and we'll have something being experimented on that can kickstart our hairs to grow at least in area's that have existing hair. Though, in area's that have gone completely bald I believe those follicles might have to be replaced. That means I should just go ahead with my research anyway.