Recent content by cal

I think Propecia is only for maintinence in the long term. It can regrow/thicken hair in the short term for a lot of guys. But after several years most are slipping back a bit. At that point they all start complaining that their finasteride is "failing." If they'd just always looked at finasteride as a...

After 4-7 years on finasteride, the loss is liable to at least resume, if not an abruptly start racing fast. How common does this story need to get before we start taking the issue seriously? The hair transplant industry should not be allowed to give 20-something kids aggressive hair transplants on the assumption that finasteride...

I don't see how the Folica thing could possibly cost a whole lot, unless they're artificially manipulating the price way beyond their price of doing it. Dermabrasion is basically just chemically sandpapering your skin, and the chemicals applied can only cost so much to make. Even if it costs...

I'm not exactly a big minoxidil expert, but as I understand it minoxidil is a growth stumulant that allows hairs to somewhat ignore their DHT-governed size and grow past it. So the minoxidil is artificially propping-up those hairs. Your body was never capable of regrowing the hairs that large again on its...

We probably need to point out a distinction between the loss rate as opposed to the loss severity in total. The young & major-losing male pattern baldness guys probably see the most reduction in LOSS RATE with medications, but their cases may still render them worse than average in the severity of the total...

And there's also age-related donor thinning to worry about eventually. It happens to most guys to some extent, but Norwood#7s often get it the worst. There are some guys out there who don't even have thick enough donor hair left to cover a strip scar very well by the time they're 50-60yo...

The "stem cells from the donor areas" thing is basically what ICX's hair multiplication thing is doing. They're harvesting a few dermal papillae cells from male pattern baldness-resistant donor hairs, multiplying them in the lab, and then re-injecting them into balding areas to reprogram the balding hairs for...

This thread is from four years ago. I'd actually be curious as to what has every happened with him. Gotta love these "I won't care about my looks anymore when I'm 30" cases.

It's horrible not to have any real hope for getting back your hairy appearance even with transplants, but I honestly think this is the case for a youger guy showing a Norwood#7 pattern. I'm personally looking at a Norwood#4-5 at the absolute worst, and I'm very concerned about whether hair transplants are a good...

Metalhead, Folica's method is gonna basically replace the hair you originally had in a given spot. I've heard nothing concrete to indicate that the new hairs will be any more DHT-resistant than the old stuff was at that location. I see no reason to think that they would be any different...

So you've already got that kind of nipple problem without any DHT drugs and w/o a lot of body fat either? You might wanna get your hormones checked across the board right now as a baseline.

Try having full heads of hair on your father, your brother, your uncles, and both grandfathers. I'm the only person for at least several generations in my family that's dealing with this.

As I understand it, sebum production is usually correlated to androgen levels in the skin. Sebum's not actually causing the androgens. (And therefore, removing the existing sebum that the skin has already produced won't help us.) But the amount of sebum being produced by the skin in the...

Since this whole wounding/WNT patent thing blew up last week, I've been trying to keep it straight in my head whether this whole thing is talking about WNT inhibition (and later signalling) with topical stuff or systemic drugs. Seems like I hear it both ways depending on where I'm reading...

Ripple, if you really believe this, then just prove it. Stop whacking off for months and then post up some pics of the hair you regrew while there were no other simultaneous variables. This is one of the easiest things on the whole male pattern baldness subject to prove if there is any truth in it. I'd be...