What's in the future you think?

[RoyD]

10 years? completely preventable? Who are you kidding man? In 10 years the only thing will be more DHT killing pills. What do you think the prevention will be like?
1) Blocking of scalp DHT
2) Destroying/Degrading receptors in the scalp
3) Artificial nutrients for hair growth
How close are we to any of those solutions?

 

[Fena2000]

In the future, we will be able to walk into a place where they will take some donor hair. A week later, after they have multiplied your hair in a petridish, you'll go back and your hair will be transplanted by some sort of robotic machinery. It will be just like going any other cosmetic procedures. BUT it will come with a high price tag, 10 000 dollars or more. Hopefully it will be a one time deal,

 

[bornwithacurse224]

I really have no idea what the future holds for us. All I can say is when I first started balding over 15 years ago, I always took comfort in the fact that "By the time my hair gets really bad we will definitely have a better treatment/cure". As you all know I was very wrong.

That's a wake up call. Might as well save up for a trasplant then.

 

[abcdefg]

You could probably prevent male pattern baldness today if you used RU and dutasteride. In another 10 I dont see any reason all this stuff seti, CB, and others will not prevent male pattern baldness at the least. Castration proves male pattern baldness is preventable at the very least by stopping androgens its why we are still doing it and pursuing it 20 years later. CB or RU compete at receptor level and dutasteride/finasteride lower it systemically. Thats probably enough right there and stuff like seti will be out in 3 years possibly for another angle. There is stuff like BIM and the wnt pathway drug I mean there are tons of things on the way in the next 5 years. Some might not pan out but I mean your dumb to not be hopeful with all the stuff coming.

 

[bornwithacurse224]

Medicine progresses faster and faster every day. By that logic we should be exponentially increasing our current research on baldness.

Personally, I think there might be a really nice cure around the corner, but I feel like it's only going to work a certain % of patients. I'm not sure if a 100% cure is near yet.

 

[Nadester]

As yoshi said, genetic splicing is the ONLY way to cure Androgenetic Alopecia permanently and it also ensure NONE of your future generation goes bald anymore.
We can ONLY hope for better maintainenece from now. finasteride and dutasteride are old, CB IS THE NEW WACK.
Lets just hope for better maintainence now.
What i believe a better maintainence regimen would be:-
1. PRP and PPP every 6 months
2. A shampoo or topical that inhibits DHT or an effective anti-androgen. A shampoo with CB or one with finasteride/dutasteride.
3. A topical that INCREASES aromatose enzyme or turns testosterone into estradiol at scalp. MOST IMPORTANT STEP.This would the follicles to heal and grow faster and stronger

 

[bornwithacurse224]

I'm hoping that in the future people won't care if you're bald. But the same friends that told me not to take meds for my hair loss now make fun of me for being bald.

You can be happy with yourself bald? You only care about what others think? For me balding would make it impossible to like myself. That's all that matters to me.

 

[ladysmanfelpz]

I'm with resu but not only hope but think there will be better treatments out soon. finasteride and rogaine have been out too long. Another advance will come soon, but not near a cure, but will be something to work with. Hopefully a mainstream antiandrogen so I don't have to mess around with experimental RU.

And Cincinnatikid you have some good posts, but you are sound uninformed on the pharma companies. Like RoyD said people have been searching for the cure to baldness since the beginning of time. You don't think big pharma companies are out searching for any last thing to weasel money out of our pockets? If there was any slight advancement in a drug that could help with balding it would be out there and they would be making bank. They'll live on the money they are raking in from propecia even with the decreased reimbursement they are getting from more people going generic proscar.

And spot on Yoshi. finasteride is the cure. We isolated the isoenzyme that causes balding. This is probably the best we will get. Its like why will a completely healthy, happy person come down with terminal cancer while a selfish criminal wins the lotto. Its the science we will never find an answer to. So I agree with you that it does requiring altering your DNA. Or becoming completely happy with yourself. It does get me down when others have full hair into middle age and I'm balding in my youth, but I've studied it enough and I know there is reason beyond just looks that goes into balding and personally would not live without it.

 

[RoyD]

dutasteride does not guarantee prevention. I am an example of this. Besides dutasteride is liver poison. It's not a long term solution. Idk about RU but how much progress do you see even that making. FFS they don't even sell RU unless it's for 'lab experiments'. Trust me, the cure is far far away in time.
1) People don't care about baldness unless they're bald/ing
2) We still barely know much about male pattern baldness
3) Research is long and complicated

The only thing going for us is pharma cos. making a bomb out of the cure or prevention. But really the R&D costs outweigh the money they're making from finasteride/Rog/dutasteride/nizoral and the money they will make from the cure.

 

[shreyaskini]

Theres no future basically. I can only say thanks to the people who invented/discovered finasteride and so far it has helped me a lot. Although there's hardly any regrowth i can confirm that the shedding has decreased a lot. Atleast i have enough hair to cover the diffuse thinning area. As for the future i'll be happy if it stays like this. I wish minoxidil worked for me which it didn't. I saw no improvement in the temple region. So hope that there will be a product that works for frontal region. For the next few years i'll be studying hard and try to get a good job for myself and think of ways through which i can improve myself rather than cursing my hair every single day. Hairloss research gave me a lot of anxiety and i was all the time sitting infront of my computer searching for meds. Won't do that again. Hell NO. To me my life is much more important than hairloss. I seriously don't want to take meds for depression/anxiety which is actually worse than hairloss.

 

[ladysmanfelpz]

Word shreyaskini. Good for you. Also nice quote in your footer. Sounds like you realized how to deal with hairloss 6 years advanced of me. I was out looking for the cure and wasting my life. Take finasteride, accept where you are at and move on and live your life.

 

[dekaz]

what people are forgetting is that hair loss, like cancer and aids, is more profitable to treat than to cure. for all we know there may be a cure for billionaires, but i doubt there will ever be a true cure released to the general public.

 

[bilboswaggins]

what people are forgetting is that hair loss, like cancer and aids, is more profitable to treat than to cure. for all we know there may be a cure for billionaires, but i doubt there will ever be a true cure released to the general public.

Even though it is false, no one is forgetting that since this conspiracy crap is mentioned at least once in every single thread about new treatments. A no bullsh!t cure would rake in much more than what current treatments bring in since a large proportion of the balding population don't even touch treatment. You really think that whenever someone is on the cusp of curing male pattern baldness all the pharmaceutical companies, hair transplant docs and snake oil salesman collude to stop its release? Yeah right. Cure for billionaires? You don't think Steve Ballmer with his $20 billion net worth would spend some pocket change to restore a thick nw1 to his cueball scalp?

 

[JimmyJones]

I watched Gattica the other day and when the couple were selecting a genetic superior baby the doctor said: 'we've taken out the male pattern baldness gene.' Found that funny.
I think the cure will be something to the extent of Replicel - basically unlimited donor supply of hair. Now I know a lot of you baldies do not consider this to be a cure but if this comes out you should all be very grateful. Imagine - unlimited thick horseshoe hair.

 

[bilboswaggins]

Lol i remember an episode of Friends when a couple are examining a potential sperm donor they check his crown for male pattern baldness

 

[wrwr]

I think, the most realistic scenario is some kind of full hair replacement. Which looks better and more fashionable than most of natural hair types.
Look at the hair dye. It was a revolution! A lot of women are using it these days.

I hope, something better will come out eventually. And it will fix "hair problems" not only for bald people, but also for people with grey / thin / short / fatty hair.
And it will be perfectly normal to use this thing, like it is perfectly normal to dye hair today.

 

[Nadester]

The cure IMO is to just apply estradiol on your scalp till all the the hair grows back. For sides, im not sure.

 

[Notcoolanymore]

Let me pull out my crystal ball and see what the future holds for all of us...

 

[doublebatman]

A "cure" wouldn't replace medications, it would exist alongside meds.

Hair multiplication for instance is useless for the nw1 gradually losing his hair

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Let me pull out my crystal ball and see what the future holds for all of us...




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Lol'd, but hardly the future for me, more like looking in the mirror