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» There’s one other oddball thing that concerns me - and I know this is a
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» But what if the Fin/Dut usage during the forming period somehow HURTS the
» hairs? Or renders them LESS able to resist androgen exposure than they
» otherwise would have been?
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» We know that some people have regrown on Gentifib without androgen
» suppression. And the hairs seem to live on that way, at least in the short
» term for sure.
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» And we know that Folica’s mouse/skin grafts probably didn’t have androgen
» exposure, but they also weren’t trying to survive in an androgen-rich
» environment after they were formed, either.
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» Like I said, not a MAJOR concern, but it’s a little nagging doubt.
Ive pondered these things myself, but simply deferred to the patent after I seen anti-androgens included therein. Believe me, I have wondered that if the hair could be “made” with the full compliment of androgens, then perhaps it would be very androgen resistant, etc. I considered also the genetic difference between hirsute men and bald men—the particular variant of the androgen receptor gene. If someone stuck a gun to my head and said “what is baldness and why does it happen and your life is riding on it”, I’d have to reply that bald mens androgen receptors on their hair follicles are genetically different based on them inheriting that gene based on the German study that found that. Whether this makes the receptors work “too well”, or chemically break down slower, or they have more androgen receptors on their hairs (I think that is supposeldy proven in balding scalp now) I cant say for certain, but I think it gets back to that gene. Ive wondered if bald men get androgen receptor genetic expression in their dermal tissue as strong as it is in muscle tissue vs. other men, etc. I thought about all this stuff before, believe me. Since I have no way of testing any of it, I find myself no wiser than before. It would be nice to think that though…we simply have androgen receptors that work too well and not something inherently wrong with our hair. A lot of bald men sure are hairy over the rest of their body. My body hair certainly isn’t deficient in any way. It grows like a motherphucker!!! My muscle tissue certainly isn’t deficient, and even at my age, Im still pretty built up (I was once very “ripped”).
I’d feel alot better if the guy with the getfitinib associated hairgrowth seen his hair grow LONG on his head. It kinda does look like high-quality chest hair in the photo. Bryan Shelton has mentioned a few times that finding the “difference” between why head hair doesn’t like androgens but body hair does might be the key to baldness. I suppose if we could ‘change’ the response of head hair to androgens, all those vellus hairs on our heads would awaken and grow like your body hair begins to post-pubtery. BUT…would it look like head hair and not body hair? Ive thought about all this stuff in my mind in the past…
Another thing about follica that is a mild concern is the fact that you will be making more sebaceous glands up there…and making more oil along with the vellus hair’s sebaceous glands which are just as big as they ever were. If follica really works extremely well, the hair removal method of which they speak might be able to be performed beforehand in bald scalp to get rid of the old vellus hairs first before making new hairs. Will the hairs come in follicular units? Will they all be single hairs? There is so much to think about.
Like you…if Follica and ACELL (to be honest, based on the animal photographs Ive seen, ACELL is probably as promising a method as there is…for the donor area of a man’s head anyway) both fail…we are probably going to be better off forgetting it. I think it will be a long time before HM is good enough to sell myself. I mean hell, Jahoda, as TAGOHL has mentioned, made that discovery back in the damned 80s, and the technology still isn’t good enough to sell yet? Thats very problemmatic to me. Some of these naysaysers had really better hope these last two methodologies can be made to go, because it they cant…they are screwed