Hi everyone,
Long time lurker, I decided to post because this Pilox II story sounds very interesting and strange.
I live in Israel so Iv'e been following the thread on Pilox on the other forum closely until it was deleted.
About the mysterious thread disappearance
The thread was started by a user named from Israel who had a low post count. This user's credibility was attacked by some forum members and he declared he will stop posting, then the entire thread was deleted as well as another thread questioning why the original one was deleted.
Some members of that forum used the website's formal questions form to ask the moderators why these threads were deleted and have yet to receive an answer.
Members on other forums have noted that the deleting forum's policy is such that threads are rarely deleted, even when they become a battleground or when it is obvious that they involve bullsh-it products/promoters.
In light of all the above, this sounds as there is something inherently different about this topic which induced it's deletion.
About the Treatment / People involved
The user from the other forum said the company that patented the new treatment is called Pilogics (or something similiar) and was headed by 2 Technion scientists (the Technion is a world renowned scientific university) who also head a company called Leorex that produces skin related products.
Another Israeli forum member said he contacted Leorex and asked about any new hair treatment trial and was directed to a guy named Yoram Benita, and after speaking with him he was accepted into the trial and will post updates. This of course was never done, maybe because the thread was deleted.
Iv'e searched for Yoram Benita and apparently he is a certified Tricologist (I'm not sure if this is a real medical degree/title or if it is some kind of pseudo-science, anyone care to elaborate) running a place called Hair-Clinic. He has numerous TV appearances on health related shows where he claims to fit an individual treatment to patient using his vast knowledge in the field... this is by no means any verification for his authenticity. On Israeli forums Iv'e seen mixed reviews about him ranging from people claiming his treatment works albeit takes a lot of time and effort to other people calling him out for being a charlatan. It should be mention though that I haven't went into great depths on researching this yet.
My inquiries
Yesterday I sent an email to the Technion professor asking about his invention. still no reply.
Trying to follow the footsteps of the other Israeli forum member mention above, I called Leorex and asked about any new hairloss trials going on and they did not know what I was talking about.
Hellouser, you've speculated that most info on Pilox II subject is in Hebrew, unfortunately - after spending a considerable amount of time searching Iv'e found
nothing noteworthy (I did find a post in a Hebrew forum by a user with the same name as the user discussed above, and roughly the same story from about a month ago, but it contained no new info).
On Sunday (the work week starts on Sundays here) I will try to contact Yoram Benita and ask about the new treatment.
My take on the discussed above
encouraging things:
* Thread was deleted on other forum - might seem counter intuitive but i take this as a positive sign - signifies there might be something different about this.
* method as explained in patent sounds like a well focused high-intensity form of dermarolling which according to what were seeing lately does seem to have positive results.
* The before/after pics show great progress and they look legit
* The Israeli user's story being discredited at the other forum (he claimed to have heard this from his hairdresser who heard it from one of the inventors who gets his hair cut by him) doesn't sound too weird to me, because here in Israel coincidences like are not uncommon considering the compounding effect of a small country that is inhabited with big mouthed people
discouraging things:
* Apart for applying for the patent the Technion scientists don't seem to have any connection to this matter - their field of study is industrial engineering...
* The Leorex company representative had not heard of any hair loss treatment trials.
* There is a missing link between The Technion scientists who supposedly invented this new method/contraption and Yoram Benita - which has been in the Israeli hair loss field for over a decade, and has yet to find THE cure (although he might have given good treatment to individual patients, can never know...)
* According to Israeli forums Yoram Benita and his treatments are controversial (again - it doesn't mean is not up to something new and effective)
