How long until there's a "cure" for hair loss?

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Do you think that in the next 10/20 years we'll have a complete understanding of what causes hair loss and a definitive treatment for it or will it take much longer?

What do you predict the treatment (if there's any) will be?

I'm wondering because we're in a different time now, with the emergence of new technologies, a better understanding of general health and more people having access to education and knowledge (thanks to the Internet), surely these factors should contribute to the discovery, directly or indirectly, of a "cure", don't you think?

Considering how much of the world scientists don't know in comparison to how much they DO know, id say longer. Unless the discovery is a fluke or accident like past discoveries. My Scientist friend said that over 80% of the matter in your body is not even human cells. It is bacteria and other organisms. He studies bacteria in soil, he says that out of all the bacteria in soil, they can only study 1% of it. The body is much more complex than one might think. This is why i dont think hair loss will be cured for a long long time.

Izzi wrote:(All forms.)

Do you think that in the next 10/20 years we'll have a complete understanding of what causes hair loss and a definitive treatment for it or will it take much longer?

What do you predict the treatment (if there's any) will be?

I'm wondering because we're in a different time now, with the emergence of new technologies, a better understanding of general health and more people having access to education and knowledge (thanks to the Internet), surely these factors should contribute to the discovery, directly or indirectly, of a "cure", don't you think?

I believe we are less than 10 years away from solving this mystery. There are many things out there that work to some extent but haven't been combined together. It is already possible to clone hair follicles although it is only possible inside a lab and it is rejected when but back into the scalp. With big companies advancing all the time we can hopefully all be NW1's by the time 2020 arrives.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Histogen

I know histogen is still in the runnings but I remember the pics weren't that impressive.

when I went back and looked at that pic, i'd say he improved, but yes its not a cure, but maybe its release onto the market will get other people thinking and working on the problem.

The pics showed improvements after 12-19 weeks can't remember which. Most treatments now take up to a year to see their full potential. Having said that histogen could be a very effective treatment as it could be that hair improves over time as there are more and more injections. Other treatments that you could use alongside histogen need to also be considered. There are quite a few different options out there that can all give growth to some extent. Throw all this together and it might give the results we are all after.

Within 10-12 years.

Not to be a debbie downer or anything but people have been saying 10 years now for decades!

ratbag wrote:The pics showed improvements after 12-19 weeks can't remember which. Most treatments now take up to a year to see their full potential. Having said that histogen could be a very effective treatment as it could be that hair improves over time as there are more and more injections. Other treatments that you could use alongside histogen need to also be considered. There are quite a few different options out there that can all give growth to some extent. Throw all this together and it might give the results we are all after.

quite true. who knows what happens when other treatments are combined with histogen. thats a good point.

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Asking when there will be a cure for hairloss is a bizzare question to me, it's like asking when there will be a cure to immunity or cellular apoptosis, they are a part of and a result like hairloss, of essential bodily functions that need to be modulated to suit the host betterment. I doubt there will ever be a "cure" the way western medicine and the media understands things.

My timeline on a cure then would be based on our understanding of human metabolism and inlammitory conditions, and everybody of course fits into this differently, so, I would say we should see our cure for the a large subset of people ... roughly ... two years ago.

Also histogen is very impressive for how young is it, I'm excited for its future as for people who really need it and those who have the money and don't care to approach this systemically.

A < R,

Interesting point. And I agree. Hair loss is the culmination of all of these natural beneficial processes (beneficial in certain contexts). Its just we have a compartmentalized view of our total physiology.

So yes, a cure is like saying, when will we be able to shut down immunity, when will we be able to stop producing testosterone or metabolizing any of the steroid hormones, when can we block all of these negative growth mechanisms (and all get cancer!).

The problem is circulation and how profuse our vascular network is. How can we get the cure into the area of the hair follicle and get it to remain there, only there, without entering systemic circulation? If we could find the right antagonist for the job and somehow bypass the reach of the circulatory system, then we'd be onto something.

But it seems like medicine has tried to "outsmart" a very intelligent physiology many times and it almost always works out poorly.

Never...not in this lifetime of Western style medicine.

There are effective holistic treatments now, however not in the fashion of immediate quick fix.

I'm not sure if manual methods, when coupled with lifestyle, eating habits and supplementation could be considered a cure, but at least they go for a better fix then 5ar blockers, and they're available now.

Now it's only a matter of seeing if they'll hold out long term.