Skeptic

Yeah you're a totally right. People have been mistakenly taken this treatment as the holy grail, it's not, it is simply a better, depending on your options and donor, and more time consuming than current HT techniques. It all comes down to time money and if it's worth the regeneration. Clearly not many fill the criteria of rahal to achieve +10k grafts. I know I don't . Also there are many risks with current HT techniques. is this the rahal you are referring to? Maybe it's another guy. (Link removed by moderator - See Terms of Service)

That's true if that part was solved we wouldn't be here guessing what's going on with this sneaky chinese guy. Assuming you can do one treatment per year of 1800 grafts which he usually does. + 10 000 / 1800 grafts = 5.5555 years ~ +6 years MAX needed to go beyond +10 000 grafts This is not unlimited donor not even "NEAR unlimited donor" +80 percent regeneration or LESS. The "REAL" and improved technique has been around for what? 3 years MAX? so IF this is true and this chinese man is not fooling us, then the +10 000 grafts guy (If he wants to be photographed) should come out in about 3 years.

You're a smart guy for saying that if you just skim the article there are many confusing and new terms in there and I am glad a future HT doctor is studying this and not throwing it in the trashcan like most doctors. I remember a post where someone emailed HT doctors about their opinions and one of them said "Dream on, it's 10 years away". I don't know if I am wrong but these doctors have only done partial FU extraction without knowing the exact location or the precise area of extraction needed to extract "enough tissue and stem cells" for regrowth to occur on both sites. Notice that it takes Gho an entire day and special patented instruments for one small session. From my google research many doctors have done partial FU or have used smaller needles however none of them were into researching the location of the follicular stem cells( that's what I think but I may be wrong about these doctors in the article), so most of them simply label it as non-sense. They did notice regrowth at the donor sites but it was not very good as it should be. This makes sense because they really didn't know what to/where to extract and did not spend years and years like Gho to figure out the exact area and location of the stem cells. I think Gho used markers and spend nearly a decade locating the precise location of these stem cells within the FU. From what I remember in Cotsarelis' stem cells research paper, they were outside the hair follicles kinda like wrapping them around like a banana peel and this is what Gho said in his paper as well. I'm not sure if I am 100% accurate I would have to read again. If everything gho claims is true, then I can be 'treated'. He is (in my opinion) definitely exaggerating on the donor regrowth and yield. So nw6s and nw7s (my future pattern) are not curable. I would assume there is 80% on both sides MAXIMUM. Right now he is fully booked for a year and making tons of money and maybe he will use that money to improve his technique. Oh and the paper I linked you they are doing the same thing except that the extraction is horizontally kinda like cutting a banana in half, however gho is peeling the banana. So it makes sense with your analysis that there are different locations where these stem cells are located and there extracted.

These doctors' opinion is no more useful than google. You would have to ask real scientists on this matter or doctors have been working on donor regeneration. They are missing one important aspect that Gho's HST offers : he uses a special medium that he "claims" give a "boost" to the FUs. You're also a bit wrong on the "no medical literature" supporting HST. http://www.hairsite.com/hair-loss/img/uploaded_files/2879_file43.pdf which I recently I read in other forums. However I do not know how related it is to Gho's HST. And this is not a cure, not everyone is a candidate i am seriously thinning more than norwood 6 pattern. Only 80% regeneration is guaranteed, that would take decades to restore me if it was even possible of course.