improved grammar :innocent: :innocent:Josh3706 said:so what we have? what will going to be in the end of all those "breakthrough reasearch"? write it on... :thumbdown2:
andrei_eremenko said:till 2016 I will have no hair maybe on my head...really sucks this baldness...i fed up with this...with everything relating to hair...we are just some guys trying to deal with this...but I took a look at the older posts with older users...those users are not here anymore posting...they have accepted the ugly baldness...and I bet we will do so...every other generation will do the same as we did...f*ck baldness...and all the people that are taking advantages of us...selling meds and bad transplants and chemical or natural formula that are doing nothing...maybe in 100 years we will get rid of this...
Matt Skiba said:I think one thing to keep in mind is that many, many of the really good looking people out there aren't the strongest people on the inside. So if you gain strength with how you are now, you really can do pretty good.
Honestly I do think this will come out by the time I turn 30, in the meanwhile I plan to gain much strength on the inside, and work out my body as well. This way in the end I'll have much more character than most people who never lost any hair.
I just find it brutal how finasteride gives me sides so I can't take it, and this started when I was only 19. I would honestly have a much easier time accepting this if it started sometime in my 30s.
there are no hairloss shampoos and only 2 treatments, the rest are snake oilstheShade said:In the next 5 years; minding the next-gen cures - we will probably see improvement in the following:
1. Shampoos and their efficacy for treating hair loss. Current producers such as Nisim, DS Labs, etc... are updating their formulas roughly every year with new ingredients, and there are some new players coming into the market. Overall effectiveness will always remain fairly low I'd imagine; applying some ingredients for just a few minutes each day isn't going to stop baldness, but it will slow things down.
2. Topical agents, particularly saturated niches such as minoxidil, spironolactone, etc... where there are several suppliers all competing with each other and updating their formulas, releasing new products, etc... I would say that topical applications of finasteride might also take route; but I think there will be too much fear of side-effects from exposed finasteride on the hair carrying over to pregnant women, etc... - such a fear would be very well grounded.
As for next-gen stuff; we have a bunch of different companies with prospective products (others have can tell more about to you than I can).
Gene therapy is ultimately the only 'cure' as such; throughout the last couple of decades it has been employed in clinical trials and experiments on humans to attempt to treat various serious problems such as Parkinsons disease, cancer, etc... with varying results thus far. As hair loss is not so serious; I think we should rule out any help from that direction for at least another decade or so.
somone uk said:there are no hairloss shampoos and only 2 treatments, the rest are snake oils
in all truth we havn't had a new product in 13 years!
i am not happy with the evidence for spirio or nizoral and i haven't really come across any credible physician that would recommend eithertheShade said:somone uk said:there are no hairloss shampoos and only 2 treatments, the rest are snake oils
in all truth we havn't had a new product in 13 years!
Well Ketoconazole is a shampoo-borne ingredient. Most people agree that it has at least some level of efficacy. Also, correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Ket discovered and added to what became the 'big 3' during the 2000's? Would make it a little newer than 13 years then. Perhaps in the next 5 years, shampoo as made by Natural Labs (Revita) and some other companies, will increase in effectiveness. This is what these companies have been attempting thus far in any case - and have been adding a wide-range of ingredients to their shampoos, most of which have at least a little scientific backing to them. Still, out of all hair-loss treatements, shampoos are always of course going to be the least effective.
Apart from shampoos, there have been many other new products within the past 13 years. They have used the same ingredients, but by most accounts the concentrations, skin absorption agents, etc... have been refined and as a result you get products such as nanominox for example, which from what I heard are more effective than regular minoxidil, or is this not so?
And minoxidil and spironolactone don't seem to be snakeoils, although the latter seems to be rather mild and less effective. Perhaps there is room for improvement with spironolactone too.
The faces in face transplants come from dead bodies.dudemon said:I know this may sound dumb, but I wonder if it would be feasible:
Instead of doing all this BS, they should work on a method to regrow a whole entire scalp in a lab, and then perfect a "scalp transplant" procedure and do the whole damn thing all at once. Why not? The world's first "face transplant" has now been done.
Perhaps a scalp transplant could come next ... :dunno:
Growing just a few thousands of hair to be transplanted, instead of a whole scalp with hair, is not much simpler? Yet we are not even close.dudemon said:They could grow part of the human body (like a scalp with hair) using the host's DNA so no anti-rejection drugs would be required.
