My hope for a cure...

[metalheaddude]

It is my hope that one day a pill will be available to all men with genetic hairloss that will trigger a reaction at a cellular genetic code level to re-grow follicles in all the original places on our scalps we had at birth. Even though these follicles are long dead on men with advanced hairloss the code for there placement and/or location must still exist deep within our genetic code at a cellular level. Given this there must be a way of triggering a reaction for re-growth once again. Perhaps with stem cells?

I dont know just thinking out loud...


Any other suggestions?

 

[chancer]

i dont think a pill will ever do that...

I think the future is in surgery... cloning follicles from the back of the head, coupled with dermabrazion technology to create new follicles in the skin... that seems our best route... i just hope where not all still talking about future cures in ten years time...

 

[Lucky_UK]

It would be nice if a cure was accidentaly stumbled upon, but somehow....

 

[s.a.f]

It is my hope that one day a pill will be available to all men with genetic hairloss that will trigger a reaction at a cellular genetic code level to re-grow follicles in all the original places on our scalps we had at birth.

I cant see that happening in the next couple of decades.

i just hope where not all still talking about future cures in ten years time...

I can see that happening in the next couple of decades.
:thumbdown2:

 

[metalheaddude]

It would be nice if a cure was accidentaly stumbled upon, but somehow....

Yes its amazing the amount of things that have been discovered in this world by accident particularily in the field of science.

For example both Minoxidil and Finasteride we both discovered by accident (for treating male pattern baldness) or were side effects of another study that had nothing to do with male pattern baldness. Finasteride was for shrinking the prostate and Minoxidil for lowering blood pressure.


A couple of other things I can think of discovered by accident include teflon and microwave ovens.

I actually found a list on howstuffworks.com of some other things that we discovered by accident. Kinda interesting....

http://science.howstuffworks.com/9-thin ... cident.htm

One of them is a slinky lol... read this

4. Slinky

In 1943, naval engineer Richard James was trying to develop a spring that would support and stabilize sensitive equipment on ships. When one of the springs accidentally fell off a shelf, it continued moving, and James got the idea for a toy. His wife Betty came up with the name, and when the Slinky made its debut in late 1945, James sold 400 of the bouncy toys in 90 minutes. Today, more than 250 million Slinkys have been sold worldwide.

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

finasteride wasnt an accidental discovery...stop talking out of ur ***.

 

[Pereira]

chill out, hair today gone tomorrow

"Finasteride was approved initially in 1992 as Proscar, a treatment for prostate enlargement."

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

chill out, hair today gone tomorrow

"Finasteride was approved initially in 1992 as Proscar, a treatment for prostate enlargement."

no u chill out....researchers new that it would benefit hair...it wasnt accidental. IT was tested fda wise for hair first and then later put threw fda testing for hair...it wasnt accidental like 90% of people think. Do me a favor and search up posts by Bryan and do some reading.

yeaa buddy

 

[Felk]

Uh oh... one more connection of the words "accidental discovery" with "finasteride" and Bryan will be here, coming down on your arse like a tonne of bricks

 

[powersam]

Uh oh... one more connection of the words "accidental discovery" with "finasteride" and Bryan will be here, coming down on your arse like a tonne of bricks

I'm tempted to PM him just to see the thunder

 

[Pereira]

hair today gone tomorrow,

"Finasteride was approved initially in 1992 as Proscar, a treatment for prostate enlargement.
(..)
On December 22, 1997, the FDA approved finasteride to treat male pattern hair loss."

Almost six year later. I red that preventing hairloss was a side effect of proscar and then they tested with 1mg. So this five/six year interval makes this story's version well based. If you say it wasn't like that, ok , we live in a free world and I do not own the reason of world. Don't need to be :thumbdown2:

 

[Lucky_UK]

Uh oh... one more connection of the words "accidental discovery" with "finasteride" and Bryan will be here, coming down on your arse like a tonne of bricks

I'm tempted to PM him just to see the thunder

LoLoL! :woot:

 

[30_going_on_60]

I don't know. There's more people out there with hairloss than there are with Aids, hell, hairloss has to be the number one cosmetic imperfection for people other than obesity (no stats, just a guess.) You KNOW hundreds of millions of people would be willing to spend a year's salary for a guaranteed cure. The market potential is massive, and drug companies are concerned about profit. A cure would be a pure cash cow. I believe it WILL happen, just not anytime soon. They can clone a sheep, but they can;t put hair on my head??? GRRRRRRRR :firing:

 

[metalheaddude]

hair today gone tomorrow,

"Finasteride was approved initially in 1992 as Proscar, a treatment for prostate enlargement.
(..)
On December 22, 1997, the FDA approved finasteride to treat male pattern hair loss."

Almost six year later. I red that preventing hairloss was a side effect of proscar and then they tested with 1mg. So this five/six year interval makes this story's version well based. If you say it wasn't like that, ok , we live in a free world and I do not own the reason of world. Don't need to be :thumbdown2:

Hey Pereira, don't even bother. HTGT is a total ***. He thinks everything he says is CORRECT while ridiculing and attempting to insult everyone else in the process. I don't even know why he comes here with an attitude like that :thumbdown2:

 

[metalheaddude]

Hairloss is simply not a main priority for drug companies. Lets face it, they would rather find a cure for aids or cancer. Hairloss 'cures' and treatments will only mainly come about through accident unless a company goes all out for it and pumps billions of pound into it.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[s.a.f]

Some slight exagerations in the above 2 posts. :whistle:

 

[chancer]

think you are all looking at it black and white tbh....

i think there is a very realistic chance that companies like follica are on there way to "TREATING" male pattern baldness... im not saying there will be a once stop treatment or drug to "cure" it.

But it will be a ongiong treatment.... just like your teeth.... when the decay you get treatment and can keep the tooth a lifetime with regular check-ups and treatemnt....

hair loss will be the same... infact you wont be asking your boss for 2 hours off work in the afternoon to get a filling and a crown from the dentist....

you'll be asking him for 2 hours off whilst you have new hair follicles injected into your scalp...

and it may be something we will all do a few times per year, topping up on follicles.... just like checkups at the dentist.

A whole new industry is about to grow, there will be clinincs in every major town and city. Why else do you think Follica have patented the kits to sell to "franchise" companies that will provide treatemt across the world?

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

hair today gone tomorrow,

"Finasteride was approved initially in 1992 as Proscar, a treatment for prostate enlargement.
(..)
On December 22, 1997, the FDA approved finasteride to treat male pattern hair loss."

Almost six year later. I red that preventing hairloss was a side effect of proscar and then they tested with 1mg. So this five/six year interval makes this story's version well based. If you say it wasn't like that, ok , we live in a free world and I do not own the reason of world. Don't need to be :thumbdown2:

why did you bother posting that...I know proscar was out before propecia...people were using proscar for hairloss before propecia was put on the market. propecia was not an accidental discovery...doctors knew it would hlep with hair loss and they know hair loss was linked to dht while they were testing finasteride....it just took longer for propecia to come to market.

 

[metalheaddude]

propecia was not an accidental discovery....

Know one was talking about "Propecia." We all know this is just same made up name to sell to the masses. We were talking about Finasteride and its original purpose. The initial research into Finasteride was not to assist in the treatment of male pattern baldness but to shrink the postate. Finasteride for treating male pattern baldness was just a side effect of the drug they did not know about (even though they may of suspected it might somehow help) When testing the drug in shrinking the postate they discovered that some men who had male pattern baldness grew more hair. So in fact it was accidental as such. They did not know this at the time because it was not the aim of the original study.

Therefore it was infact accidental.

You're wrong HTGT.

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

propecia was not an accidental discovery....

Know one was talking about "Propecia." We all know this is just same made up name to sell to the masses. We were talking about Finasteride and its original purpose. The initial research into Finasteride was not to assist in the treatment of male pattern baldness but to shrink the postate. Finasteride for treating male pattern baldness was just a side effect of the drug they did not know about (even though they may of suspected it might somehow help) When testing the drug in shrinking the postate they discovered that some men who had male pattern baldness grew more hair. So in fact it was accidental as such. They did not know this at the time because it was not the aim of the original study.

not but they had an idea that reducing dht would effect other things besides the prostate...namely hair.