tony_canuck
16-11-2009, 09:26 PM
There was another thread about hair replacement surgery where I talked a bit about a new company called Follica Inc that is working on a new stem cell derived technique to re-grow your own hair. There are actually a few other companies working on similar things, but I've been reading some of the hair loss forums and some interesting things have popped up that I thought might be interesting to some guys here:
Follica Inc this out, from the Today show.
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=...c-e749264afc01
Now this guy on this thread has tried a do it yourself approach and, if his pics are not fake, this would be one of the most amazing hair growth transformation i've ever seen
http://www.hairsite.com/hair-loss/board_entry-id-51248-page-0-order-time-category-0.html
if you scroll down you will see before and after about 8 months or so.
Essentially the technique is to slightly damage your skin, then place a liquid mix on to your head. The damage causes the cells to start the generate new cells, with the help of the topical solution. More info on the solution is found here
http://www.hairsite.com/hair-loss/board_entry-id-39891-page-0-order-time-category-0.html
The guys are trying to re-produce what the company Follica is doing. Now, I'm not too eager to try anything until a few more guys have done it and had similarly good results, since I'm not sure how much of this guy's hair growth was due to this procedure, or something else. Either way, there are some interesting things on the horizon. If more guys have good results, I'm going to try and let you guys know how the results are either way
some more info on Follica
"Follica, Inc., a small, privately-held Boston pharmaceutical company, is taking a radically new approach to treating hair loss — one that could revolutionize the new push to develop a cure for baldness.
Unlike recent efforts to reverse hair loss by stimulating or transplanting existing hair follicles, Follica is attempting something far more radical: It is attempting to actually stimulate the development of new hair follicles! The company has an exclusive, worldwide license from the University of Pennsylvania to use and commercialize a breakthrough technology for what they call follicle neogenesis. Dr. George Cotsarelis discovered that the physical disruption of the skin, under the appropriate circumstances, can actually lead to the creation of new follicles — and hence, new hair. According to the company’s literature, the capacity of the adult skin to generate new follicles has been observed since the 1950s and 1960s, but due to lack of understanding of the fundamental biology of the follicle, could never be definitively proven."
Follica Inc this out, from the Today show.
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=...c-e749264afc01
Now this guy on this thread has tried a do it yourself approach and, if his pics are not fake, this would be one of the most amazing hair growth transformation i've ever seen
http://www.hairsite.com/hair-loss/board_entry-id-51248-page-0-order-time-category-0.html
if you scroll down you will see before and after about 8 months or so.
Essentially the technique is to slightly damage your skin, then place a liquid mix on to your head. The damage causes the cells to start the generate new cells, with the help of the topical solution. More info on the solution is found here
http://www.hairsite.com/hair-loss/board_entry-id-39891-page-0-order-time-category-0.html
The guys are trying to re-produce what the company Follica is doing. Now, I'm not too eager to try anything until a few more guys have done it and had similarly good results, since I'm not sure how much of this guy's hair growth was due to this procedure, or something else. Either way, there are some interesting things on the horizon. If more guys have good results, I'm going to try and let you guys know how the results are either way
some more info on Follica
"Follica, Inc., a small, privately-held Boston pharmaceutical company, is taking a radically new approach to treating hair loss — one that could revolutionize the new push to develop a cure for baldness.
Unlike recent efforts to reverse hair loss by stimulating or transplanting existing hair follicles, Follica is attempting something far more radical: It is attempting to actually stimulate the development of new hair follicles! The company has an exclusive, worldwide license from the University of Pennsylvania to use and commercialize a breakthrough technology for what they call follicle neogenesis. Dr. George Cotsarelis discovered that the physical disruption of the skin, under the appropriate circumstances, can actually lead to the creation of new follicles — and hence, new hair. According to the company’s literature, the capacity of the adult skin to generate new follicles has been observed since the 1950s and 1960s, but due to lack of understanding of the fundamental biology of the follicle, could never be definitively proven."