News! News! News! It's really happening!!!

[News2]

It looks like hair multiplication is really happening - and happening soon! Have a look at this article:

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/ ... ome-health

In all previous articles Dr. Ken Washnik said that HM was "on the horizon" or that they were "getting close" to being able to do it. Now he says that they are "growing human hair, and growing it on human skin". Furthermore, the article states that both ARI and Intercytex have a product that works, and that they can "multiply the number of cells about a thousandfold". This is exciting!!!!

 

[YoungAndThin]

really interesting.

I guess it's time to start saving up

 

[Wezz]

 

[stax]

NICE!

 

[nervx]

To me the HM info is old but i found the news about Curis possibly starting FDA trials this year to be very interesting. Out of all the upcoming hair products other than HM i think curis is looking to be the best bet. If their trials show that it works then i would be willing to wait an extra year for it to come to market even if HM is available sooner. I mean why under go any type of operation when you can just wipe a little hedgehog juice on your head and be set for a long time.

 

[Lessofarockstar]

Would you need finasteride to keep HM hair?
Or would it be more resistant to DHT? Or would you simply just go back and get another one done when the first ones start to leave your sorry ***?

 

[Felk]

To me the HM info is old but i found the news about Curis possibly starting FDA trials this year to be very interesting. Out of all the upcoming hair products other than HM i think curis is looking to be the best bet. If their trials show that it works then i would be willing to wait an extra year for it to come to market even if HM is available sooner. I mean why under go any type of operation when you can just wipe a little hedgehog juice on your head and be set for a long time.

Hi nervx, when do you predict this curis product to hit the shelves?

thanks a lot

 

[gnome]

Maybe I'm miss-informed, but isn't it a fact that if you're totally slick-bald the hair-sack is completly dead and will never regrow again?

Even if there were some extremly minituarized hairs left and they grew out, they can't cover the bald area.

If anyone wants to correct me, go ahead. I just think of this hedgehog thing, in light of what I have read, to be a complete waste of time. It would be like super-propecia. It's nice if you're thinning, but if you're far gone like me you'd rather want HM where you can start over.

And on a closing thought, dear God and Satan, please divert your attention away from the cosmic video game you're playing and make a group-effort to push out HM to an extremly customer-friendly price. You know the price I want. I'm thinking late 2007, at the very least early 2008. I never ask you two for anything these days, and I feel I have atleast one favor to claim from both of you, especially considering what happened last time. You know what I'm talking about.

the end.

 

[markelbentley]

And on a closing thought, dear God and Satan, please divert your attention away from the cosmic video game you're playing and make a group-effort to push out HM to an extremly customer-friendly price. You know the price I want. I'm thinking late 2007, at the very least early 2008. I never ask you two for anything these days, and I feel I have atleast one favor to claim from both of you, especially considering what happened last time. You know what I'm talking about.

:icon_smile_lachuh: lol

 

[WiseJoeyD]

Good article; one of the few i've read in a mainstream media that basically gets all it's facts right, and doens't try and drop in [tired old] jokes to liven up the piece.
Wonder how many people it enlightened through informative tone... It even made a stab at suggesting hair transplants to be pretty decent nowadays. I think I read a BBC story about HM and it just played all the old joes about them looking like dolls hair without trying to explain the reality.

I remember a piece recently inthe daily Telegraph that did a fair enough job covering the main points though done more as a "why do we bother so much". I think it ended up suggesting some random shampoos and that was about it. Just really an opinion/observation piece

 

[Guest]

Would you need finasteride to keep HM hair?
Or would it be more resistant to DHT? Or would you simply just go back and get another one done when the first ones start to leave your sorry ***?

Good questions.

I think all that is still under investigation.

In a regular hair transplant, you need Propecia and minoxidil, to keep hair. Even the hair they transplanted. Alvi, said that with minoxidil, you can keep 99% of what they transplanted, while with no-minoxidil, you can keep around 80% only. Of course it varies form case to case.

I heard about guys who lost all what they tranplanted, and never grew again, even though they used minoxidil+propecia.

I think there is nothing worser than falling in a hair tansplant, I think none of us here must end in one.

 

[News2]

When HM becomes available, you will not need finasteride for the "cloned" hair, as you will be multiplying hair that is resistant to DHT. However, you might want to continue using finasteride for existing hair that would otherwise be likely to fall out.
As for hair transplants, I've seen pictures of some very convincing ones. If you're transplanting "good" hair (i.e. hair that is resistant to DHT) you can get very good results. However, i donn't think I'll ever have a conventional hair transplant, as I don't want a big scar on my head. I'm waiting for HM. (The thing with HM is that you can always get a top-up if you need more hair.)

 

[powersam]

news2 "When HM becomes available, you will not need finasteride for the "cloned" hair, as you will be multiplying hair that is resistant to DHT."

thats assuming that hair on the side of the head is actually resistant to dht rather than dht being the indirect cause of baldness due to fluid oedema in the scalp. it is still in question you know, too many people have stated theory as fact on this point i think. actually hm could mean we actually find out the truth about the balding process and how its caused

 

[News2]

Fair enough: The true cause of baldness may not be known. However: We do know that hair on the side of the head is usually not affected by it. We also know that hair from that area will continue to grow if it is transplanted to a bald spot. Therefore it doesn't matter what the cause of baldness is: If you can "clone" hair from the side of the head it will most likely grow on a previously bald spot. (You've just got to make sure that you're multiplying hair that does not fall out. This could be a problem, as even the hair on the side&back has a tendency to thin out over time.)

 

[Wezz]

i dont think u will need a propecia to keep the transplanted hair, because the hair on back or the sides are not affected by dht, well if so by very little

 

[News2]

That's exactly my point.

 

[Guest]

When HM becomes available, you will not need finasteride for the "cloned" hair, as you will be multiplying hair that is resistant to DHT. However, you might want to continue using finasteride for existing hair that would otherwise be likely to fall out.
As for hair transplants, I've seen pictures of some very convincing ones. If you're transplanting "good" hair (i.e. hair that is resistant to DHT) you can get very good results. However, i donn't think I'll ever have a conventional hair transplant, as I don't want a big scar on my head. I'm waiting for HM. (The thing with HM is that you can always get a top-up if you need more hair.)

There are a lot of people who have had hair transplants and lost their transplanted hair. It's supposed that the transplanted hair was not affected by DHT. So, how do you explain it? Very well known Doctors who make hair transplants tell their patients to take Propecia and to apply minoxidil in their transplanted hair.

There a lot of questions about all this, and all is still under investigation.

 

[News2]

The majority of people who have had a hair transplant will not lose their transplanted hair, because the majority of people will continue to grow hair at the back & sides of ther head (i.e. the donor area) until they die. However, there are some people who go completely bald (or at least thin out considerably in the traditional donor area), and therefore transplanted hair may fall out. (There is no way of telling whether the hair you are transplanting is resistant to the cause of balding, but you will find out - one way or the other...)

 

[buckthorn]

10 years later, nothing.

hahahaha... I like how you bumped this thread to make a strong point. Man, in desperation we sure do get excited easily over the smallest news. I would sell my house and give away all my money and live on the street, right now, not for a full head of hair, but for an assurance that I would NEVER think about my hair again. EVER. That is really the goal. Everyone says that bald people have to be the most depressed. There is only one thing I can find right now more depressing than the though of being bald and that is letting hair loss control my life. Letting anything control your life is the saddest, saddest fate.

 

[parisienne]

So true Buckthorn. I'm so happy to be alive that I really don't care about hair anymore. I recently underwent HIV testing and that was the worst week in my life while I waited for the results. Luckily I was negative on the test. Who cares about the hair, there's so much more to life than hair and sex. Some people here it seems are desperate to get love from others because they lack self love. If they loved and accepted themselves they wouldn't crave for the love and affection of others of others so badly.

I had long hair until my waist and long hair is my lifestyle and my statement so it wasn't easy for me to accept hair loss but **** it, if I'm destined to go bald and I can't do much about it then I can change the way I react towards it.



"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." - Randy Pausch

Vincent, I like your views on things. It is refreshing and logical but it takes so much strengh to reach this point.