a few more questions

[giants]

4 questions

 

# 1: Why is hair loss so slow in developing a cure. Altough it doesnt get much funding the reward for a cure is so huge, youd think many people would be working on it.

 

#2: Have you heard anything about the new protien being developed in massachusetts.

 

#3: 5 years ago there was talk about how hair loss would be cured with such things as hair cloning in 5-10 years. I know hair cloning is still being tested yet they say we are still 5-10 years away from any major hair develpoements. In 5 years will they still be saying 5-10 years?

 

#4: Besides cloning what is the future of hair loss. What is being researched currently.

 

Theank you for the time.

[giants]

4 questions

 

# 1: Why is hair loss so slow in developing a cure. Altough it doesnt get much funding the reward for a cure is so huge, youd think many people would be working on it.

 

#2: Have you heard anything about the new protien being developed in massachusetts.

 

#3: 5 years ago there was talk about how hair loss would be cured with such things as hair cloning in 5-10 years. I know hair cloning is still being tested yet they say we are still 5-10 years away from any major hair develpoements. In 5 years will they still be saying 5-10 years?

 

#4: Besides cloning what is the future of hair loss. What is being researched currently.

 

Theank you for the time.

[giants]

#5 whats the difference between 1% and 2% nizoral. And is it applied like normal shampoo

[calvinmd]

Hair loss does get a decent amount of funding. It's not the moon shot but there's millions being spent on it at this point. It has just turned out to be a surprisingly difficult job, and it wasn't being taken very seriously until the last couple decades.

 

 

I'm not sure about the "protein" thing.

 

Hair cloning (or hair "multiplication" methods) have been done since at least the 1980s. The cure for hair loss has been said to be "5-10 years away" for at least the last 20 years. The researchers are always posting optimistic estimates on things because they're trying to keep people investing in their work and nobody wants to wait too long for the payoff.

 

Right now it's hard to know. On the one hand, it's the same "5 years away" that we've always heard. But on the other hand, there are more kinds of things being tried by more different groups of scientists that ever before. At some point, raw probability would seem to dictate that one of these schemes will pan out.

 

And the current batch of "5-10 years away" schemes are often partway through the FDA/other safety trials process now. That typically wasn't true about the past claims along those lines. It's a multi-million-dollar investment just for the trials alone, so nobody does that unless they think they're testing something realistic & workable.

 

 

Right now, NEOSH101 is a chemical that seems to work as an ass-beating-strong version of Minoxidil. It doesn't have to be applied every day. It's several years into the trials.

 

Androscience is testing a chemical for acne & hair loss that would interrupt the androgen receptors in the follicles/skin from working properly, and it may actually work to degrade their function in the long-term. ( It brings the promise of permanently less long term hair loss even after stopping the drug.) This stuff is in trials for acne right now, but the same process will basically work on hair loss too. Same androgens in the same skin layers. This one's also several years into the trials.

 

Intercyctex is basically just the same old "hair cloning" racket. It just bears attention because everything about it smells pretty good. They've gotten serious funding for the project on the strength of what they're doing, and they're aiming for a widespread release (rather than just fixing up a few zillionaires). They seem to have made progress on one of the longstanding problems with all the hair cloning attempts (growth direction). They seem to be far & away the most serious cloning attempt yet, and there's some reputable hair researchers involved in it. They're about halfway through the safety trials right now.

 

 

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