What Dr Packard says about CPs

[CCS]

http://www.regrowth.com/hair_loss_inter ... erview.cfm

regrowth: GraftCyte, Iamin, and Folligen all contain less than 1% of their active ingredient. The studies on Tricomin on 1.25% and 2.5% formula showed only the 2.5% formula was effective for hair loss. Why does Folligen not include a similar percentage of active ingredient? Do you believe Folligen would be more effective than currently if it used a similar higher percentage?

Dr. Pickart: Folligen probably would be more active at a higher percentage. But we are fighting the blue color problem. Also, skin irritation might occur at higher concentrations. We still need controlled clinical studies to optimize Folligen.

regrowth: How effective do you think Folligen is in maintaining hair and growing new hair? Do you have any studies (internal or otherwise) indicating percentages?

Dr. Pickart: About half our orders are re-orders. Many men (but not all) like the product. We focused much energy on improving the smell of Folligen and these complaints have vanished with the newer Folligen preparations.

regrowth: Have you observed any differences between the effectiveness of liquid and cream folligen?

Dr. Pickart: No. We sell somewhat more lotion than the cream.

regrowth: Several people have complained about the color of Folligen (green), saying that it is hard to get out of their hair or gets on things (pillow cases, etc). Do you have any plans in the future to make the color clearer so that it can be used in the day and prevent those types of problems? Is the green color due to Saw Palmetto or something else?

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I'm making my own.

 

[CCS]

regrowth: What do you think of Tricomin's phase II results? Were they what you expected?

Dr. Pickart: I expected better results. The key here is product formulation. I think many of the solvents used with minoxidil, such as ethyl alcohol, may damage the scalp. The same goes for Tricomin, the formlation of the product and its interaction with the scalp is critically important.


See? I'm not the only one worried about ethanol's long term side effects. Yeah, we have been using it for years, and old people have looked worse than young people for years, so that proves nothing.

I think PPG is safer than ethanol, but I think oleic acid is even better. I'm bothered though that when the sebum glands don't have enough linoleic acid to make oily sebum, they use oleic acid to make waxy sebum. And linoleic acid is a little bit pricy, but still cheap compared to minoxidil.

If I could by 100% minoxidil, or knew apple poly worked about as well as 5% or even 2%, I'd stop the minoxidil and use all naturals.

 

[CCS]

now i'm not sure if alcohol is that bad, if i have all my other stuff in there.

also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoxide_dismutase
SOD might be copper peptides. I really hate how they don't tell us what it actually is. They just tell us what it does. the information is so blatantly missing.

 

[Bryan]

now i'm not sure if alcohol is that bad, if i have all my other stuff in there.

I don't know why some people worry so much about alcohol. It clearly had no significant effect in that topical minoxidil study done by Vera Price, whose graphs I've posted several times. The group using the placebo solution (in an alcohol vehicle) did no worse and no better than the group receiving no treatment at all, and that was over a period of 96 weeks.

Bryan

 

[CCS]

just because it does not hurt hair does not mean it does not damage skin. Many alcoholics have bad skin but full heads of hair. I'd like to know if it changes scalp color or texture over 10 years. Anyone here used minxodil that long, particularly the 2%, which has more alcohol in it?

 

[CCS]

i just found more info on SOD. It is a big molecule. mass of about 32500 daltons. Definitely not tri-amino complex. There are three types, and DNA codes for them, and they are found in different areas. There is one with copper, one with zink, and one with manganese. Very powerful. Also used topically in some anti-aging creams. Older people can't make as much.

It is not what I wanted, but I may use it to preserve my GLA and borageseed oil.

I think the triamino complex imitates SOD in some ways.

I wonder how expensive it is to make the tri-amino stuff.
---- I read the patent. They make it the way I suspected they would. They use protecting groups to make sure only the desired ends of the amino acids may combine. This is not too complicated. Cheap actually. But serveral chemicals are involved. I don't have access to all those chemicals, and some of the lab equipment.

So i can't make the stuff, but if it can be found elsewhere on the net, i'm sure it would be cheap.