Hair Loss Will be Cured Within Ten Years

Will hair loss be cured within ten years

  • Yes

    Votes: 76 40.6%
  • No

    Votes: 111 59.4%

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poopfeast420

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Hopefully monoclonal antibody production becomes cheaper over the next few years. The prices on average are very expensive but there's also a ton of variance within that range. Logically I don't think they would clear 8 figures of financing if they didnt expect to offer this at Mass market (ish) prices.
 

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Not sure if this has been discussed -- The CEO of CK BIO (KY19382) expects to submit an IND this year and finish phase 2 in 2023.

edit: they've also received ~$40mm in series a/b funding.
 
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froggy7

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Not sure if this has been discussed -- The CEO of CK BIO (KY19382) expects to submit an IND this year and finish phase 2 in 2023.

edit: they've also received ~$40mm in series a/b funding.
ok, what this company is doing? they only want to prevent hair loss or regrow full head of hair?
 

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As if Kevin Mann has any clue whether or not a drug in pre-clinical development will pass phase 3 lol

Why phase 3? What about phase 1&2?
That was my personal opinion on it. These miracle grow treatments seem like a Longshot. I think anti androgen are the only real approach for the time being.
 

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That was my personal opinion on it. These miracle grow treatments seem like a Longshot. I think anti androgen are the only real approach for the time being.
Oh true. I still don't see how you could possibly gauge whether or not a treatment will succeed a certain level of trials.

Of course AA is the more feasible treatment path right now, but Androgenetic Alopecia isn't going to be cured from that AA route.
 

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Oh true. I still don't see how you could possibly gauge whether or not a treatment will succeed a certain level of trials.

Of course AA is the more feasible treatment path right now, but Androgenetic Alopecia isn't going to be cured from that AA route.
Best case scenario is side effect free maintenance. I think if finasteride didn't have side effects people wouldn't be afraid to at least try it.
 

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There is no such thing as "side effect free" drugs.
Sorry, let me rephrase that. Minimal risk of sexual side effects but strong efficacy. Finasteride is allegedly 2-6% which is actually pretty high. If the side effect odds were much lower people wouldn't hesitate to start treatment.
 

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I think if finasteride didn't have side effects people wouldn't be afraid to at least try it.

The problem isn't that people don't try it.

The problem is that they do try it and the side effects are very common.
 

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The problem isn't that people don't try it.

The problem is that they do try it and the side effects are very common.

The sides are not common really, millions of men take it, this forum is not representative of them. Even when people do get sides they are usually minor and nothing to warrant stopping it. An extremely small portion do get very bad sides though, im not denying that.
 
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coolio

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The sides are not common really, millions of men take it, this forum is not representative of them. Even when people do get sides they are usually minor and nothing to warrant stopping it. An extremely small portion do get very bad sides though, im not denying that.


Sure. 90-something percent of men have an off-the-shelf option to stop their hair loss without any side effects. That's the world we live in. In fact it's already been this way for 30 years; a whole generation now. Any local dermatologist can write you the script. All you have to do is ask . . .


Hear that beeping sound? That's your mental bullsh*t detector. It knows a load of crap when it hears one.
 

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Sure. 90-something percent of men have an off-the-shelf option to stop their hair loss without any side effects. That's the world we live in. In fact it's already been this way for 30 years; a whole generation now. Any local dermatologist can write you the script. All you have to do is ask . . .


Hear that beeping sound? That's your mental bullsh*t detector. It knows a load of crap when it hears one.

Where did i say it had no "potential" side effects in my post? i didn't, im not denying that using finasteride could potentially lead to sides like pretty much every drug, just that the benefits to using it far outweigh the risks, and that for the majority of men they tolerate it just fine.
 

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Question for you guys. Say you are still a NW1.5 or so with thinning all over the top. Say we get a treatment like Stemson or Tsuji, where we can transplant an unlimited donor so you can go back to a NW0 with thick hair. But now the non-transplanted hairs will still be prone to hair loss so how exactly does one deal with that? Just keep getting more and more transplants as the hair keeps thinning? That seems very inefficient, you'd be going in for a new transplant every year + shaving your head every year. Or would you basically just have to take finasteride for the rest of your life anyways?

Ironically I feel like Stemson/Tsuji would be better for someone with a NW7 who's already lost all their hair, so once they get a transplant they don't have to worry about losing any more. Those of us who have barely started our hair loss journey will be on hair loss drugs for the rest of our lives even with hair cloning available, unless some gene therapy eliminates hair loss completely.

Thoughts?
 
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