I wish I had chosen my words more carefully! :blush: Obviously I think the beneficial effects of Tricomin or any other copper-peptide would dissipate if you stop using it; what I should have said is that copper-peptides (or other SODs) might have more of a permanent effect than just minoxidil alone, due to their ability to destroy superoxide.
In other words, suppose you take two identical-twin brothers who are balding the same way. One starts using topical minoxidil alone, while the other starts using a suitable copper-peptide alone. After many many years go by, I suspect that the one using the copper-peptide would have hair that's in better shape than the other. The reason for that, I believe, is that topical minoxidil only seems to give you that "offset of growth" that I've talked about so much, without actually interfering with the fundamental balding process. A SOD like a good copper-peptide, on the other hand, may go farther than that and actually promote some general "healing" of follicular/scalp tissue (I have to be a little vague about the exact details), which _may_ have better long-term results than minoxidil alone. That's my feeling.
