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Other reasons which Doctors consider can add on to hair loss are:
# Improper diet, lack of vitamins & micro-nutrients
# Excess stress, anxiety & worries
# Prolonged illnesses
# Unclean scalps
Other reasons which Doctors consider can add on to hair loss are:
# Improper diet, lack of vitamins & micro-nutrients
# Excess stress, anxiety & worries
# Prolonged illnesses
# Unclean scalps
I do not know on what page is the latest news on replicel is.
If this one injection costs 5k-10k, sure I will take it somehow. But I have a feeling that it will cost more than 25k. I will tell you why - because when a cure for hep C was found, the drug's cost was more than the lifetime management cost of disease. So, given I get finasteride for 36$ and minoxidil is 12$ per month -> ~ 50 $/month -> $600/year -> ~ $25000/40years (20-60).
Or refused to proscribe Proscar - which is finasteride at 5x the dose of Propecia - for BHP. That Merck managed to stay in business for the last 30 years even as doctors refused to proscribe two of its drugs - and one of its biggest sellers in Proscar - is a minor miracle.
Exactly. Any new product will have to grow a significant amount of hair (10%<); that's the decisive metric. Maintenance alone will not result in a product getting to market, which is why Replicel has commissioned this new study - they NEED to make sure they can achieve median growth better than what they are currently seeing.
Thats per injection treatment from what I understand and they are doing a trial of multiple injection sessions. So likely the finally product will be multiple injections over a certain period of time. So the cost of injections themselves could be several thousand.I remember an article about Shiseido saying the treatment would cost around a thousand bucks?
You are just seeing your side of the story..
Think about it: a product that halts (immunizes, even if for 5 or 10 yrs) hair loss.
Now, you are 17.. Baldness runs into your family.. Ok, no problem.. Gonna get an immunization shot, and I'm good.
There will be an infinite line of ppl going for it.
They don't really do they though? Give someone the chance of a side free, one off immunisation shot that stops hair loss or take a pill every day that has potentially awful sides/might make your c*** fall off? Tough choice. Be millions of people keen for a side free maintenance treatment. Imagine being 17 and noticing some temporal recession get this injection dont have to worry again. Think your just against this product cos your too far gone on the norwood scale for it to be beneficial?
This.
Just as a preventative measure, replicel will have a large market.
I'm sorry guys, but Occulus does have a point.
How many 17 year olds do you know who can afford the (predicted) amount of at least $1,000 to get "immunized"? Do you think their parents are honestly going to pay for it or give them the "oh sweetie, you've got a loooong time before you have to worry about that" and by the time they have the funds on their own to afford it, they've gone up several Norwoods and a treatment that provides only maintenance, even if indefinite, is not worth it at that point.
The teenagers aiming to forever dodge baldness is not a reliable demographic.
It's interesting that Occulus has spun a 180 on this despite worrying that such a treatment would prevent others from coming to market, but hey...
It does seem that they intend to release it anyway, I do think there'll be a market for it, so I think the doom and gloom is unwarranted, but much like a broken clock is right twice a day, if we're to glean "maintenance isn't as attractive to the general public as the forums believe" off his posts, it's actually pretty hard to argue that.
After all, Aderan's treatment was capable of doing what this tech does and the company and investors swiftly shelved it.
i think parents would pay for it because most likely one or the two of them passed on their own genetics and know the pain of hair loss...I think my own Mother would slit her wrists foe me not to go through what she went through with wigs.
I'm sorry guys, but Occulus does have a point.
Do you think their parents are honestly going to pay for it or give them the "oh sweetie, you've got a loooong time before you have to worry about that" and by the time they have the funds on their own to afford it, they've gone up several Norwoods and a treatment that provides only maintenance, even if indefinite, is not worth it at that point.
My father was way worse than I was with my age, he didn´t give a f***. Prove is he didn't even started with minoxidil.Wouldn't you, as a baldie parent, do that to your son?? Let him suffer this nightmare, we are all in?
I would save him, no second thought.
Wouldn't you, as a baldie parent, do that to your son?? Let him suffer this nightmare, we are all in?
I would save him, no second thought.
Wouldn't you, as a baldie parent, do that to your son?? Let him suffer this nightmare, we are all in?
I would save him, no second thought.
Yeah I get that but with the rise of technology, Hollywood and media the upper boundaries of human beauty rose significantly.My father was way worse than I was with my age, he didn't give a f***. Prove is he didn't even started with minoxidil.
You are totally right. I like to think of dating as a market place. 30 years ago the market was very closed, your dating choices were limited to an specific area and looks. Nowadays it's a f*****g free and globalice market place and competence is really high, with all the social media, gyms, a superficial culture... Balding causes us anxiety just like fatness or being short to other people. At least there is something in the horizon to fix it.Yeah I get that but with the rise of technology, Hollywood and media the upper boundaries of human beauty rose significantly.
Compare any movie actor before the 90s with those today and you can't deny that today's actors have much better physical appearance.
Then compound that with globalization which pushes many young man and women to move to countries with better economic capacity, where they are even more exposed and nudged towards cosmetic surgery in order to increase their looks. In the end you get the result of contemporary higher physical appearance standards when searching for a partner.
The crux of the matter is currently people demand better looking lovers. And baldness is one thing that does not help in the matter.
I'm not saying people in the last century didn't suffer from baldness, but it is even more pronounced as barrier for making yourself attractive to others in current times.