Old Baldy said:
viperfish said:
[quote="Old Baldy"
sggghtd]Beethoven, tempo/tempol is close to being accepted by the FDA as preventing hairloss in chemo. treated patients.
Old Baldy,
Is it just for chemo. treated patients? It would be hard to say if tempol would actually be successful in treating genetic hairloss. Or am I missing something?
IMHO, you are missing something and it's important.
DHT/androgens cause a cascade of negative effects in male pattern baldness. One effect is the inability of the follicles to grow healthy cells. It does this on a slow, steady basis for most men over a long period of time and results in minaturized cosmetically unacceptable follicles.
Chemo treatment causes a cascade of negative effects quickly and strongly. It too prevents the follicles from growing healthy follicle cells.
Chemo does this on a more global scale and does it
much quicker than dht/androgens in male pattern baldness.
Look up endothelial growth factors, etc. (Doctor Proctor, Bryan, Michael, Doctor and College can help you more with this subject but it is a fascinating subject to read about IMHO.)
Tempo/tempol interrupts the cascade of negative effects for many people undergoing chemo therapy so their hair grows back faster, or in some minor cases doesn't cause the hair to fall out in the first place.
If tempo/tempol can interrupt this cycle in chemo I don't think it is a quantum leap to conclude it can possibly help in treating male pattern baldness.
I liken chemo therapy to a howitzer cannon. I liken dht/androgens in male pattern baldness as a .22 long rifle cartridge. If tempo/tempol can help "neutralize" the howitzer cannon it should very well be able to help neutralize the .22 long rifle.
It is the possible interruption of the "cascade of events" that gives tempo/tempol its potential in chemo therapy and, by default and common sense, in treating the negative "cascade of events" involved in male pattern baldness IMHO.
I do agree with the mainstream theory that we must first interrput the effect of dht/androgens though. Tempo/tempol "comes" after that IMHO by helping the follicles grow healthy cells and/or preventing the follicles from growing "unhealthy" cells.
What we want is a robust follicle that gets that way by growing healthy cells IMHO. Tempo has been shown to help with that. Like I said, tempo/tempol will probably be approved by the
FDA as a treatment for chemo hairloss.
I know alot of you guys disagree but, for me, that's a
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sggghtd]
Thanks. I see what you are saying, but I think you are drawing alot of assumptions here. If it works for you that's great.