Reply to hairman2:
very good points.
I will add another point. We don’t know if ARI-HM will be additive to Propecia and Minoxidil. I mean, 5+5 could not be 10.
Fckhrls says that if Propecia and Minox give us 20% more hair, then ARI-HM will give us “another” 20%. Well, this is not so easy. Even if these treatments are based in different principles, there could be an overlapping. I mean, some follicles could be revived by ARI-HM and also by Propecia-Minox. So, if you apply Propecia-Minox and revive these follicles, you won’t revive them anymore when you apply ARI-HM. So you won’t get a 20% additional hair, but something less than that. That is probably why ARI wanted trialists who are not taking Propecia-Minox.
» Sorry cal but its not as easy as that… 25% more hair is not the same as
» 25% darker area of coverage in photoshop. Saying that would mean that a
» person with 8 hairs on his head has 25% darker coverage with 10 hairs? Hair
» count and coverage do not have a linear correlatation.
»
» Also the 25% improvement seems to be in areas of thinning hair, so on a
» 5000 graft transplant i dont think the 25% applies to the transplanted hair
» but rather to the thinning original hair, which might well be a far smaller
» procentage.
»
»
» » Take a pic of your thinning bald spot, get it into photoshop, and
» darken
» » the area by 25%. That’s a BIG improvement for anything working outside
» the
» » typical methods. That’s real.
» »
» » Or you could imagine it this way: Take a HT recipient area that has
» had
» » 4000 grafts implanted, and magically turn it into 5000 grafts. No
» » additional hormone effects, and no loss of the regained hair as soon as
» any
» » daily medication regimens are stopped.
» »
» »
» »
» »
» » If you guys can’t see the progress this represents then you’re not
» being
» » realistic about near-term HM. We haven’t ever seen jack sh*t in terms
» of
» » visible results from any other kind of HM project like this. And nobody
» is
» » saying this result is the final product of ARI’s project, either.
» »
» » I am pleased by the sound of this.