Losing your hair could finally be a thing of the past as a new option has emerged in the fight against male pattern baldness. Stem cell treatments for hair loss!
The past 10 years have seen many new firsts for stem cell applications. Now for the first time a stem cell treatment that successfully treats male-pattern baldness (androgenetic alopecia) has become publicly available.
A little known British company has become the first in the race to bring such treatments out to a market of well over 100 million hair loss sufferers worldwide.
Working for the past few years, in relative secrecy, in a privately funded high tech laboratory located inside a Science Park in Taiwan, the company has finally been able to successfully re-grow hair on patients scalps, using stem cells taken from their own body.
Up till now, the options for hair loss sufferers were limited to the usual a lifetime of medications, both oral and topical, or the more radical hair transplant surgery, where individual hairs are cut out and transplanted to the target hair loss site.
Other options have come and gone, such as alternative treatments, special scalp massages, special diets and the like. But the fact is, walk down any high street and you will still see many men still sporting a receding hairline, or a bald patch on top. Hair loss has still evaded successful treatment. Until now.
This little known company, called Recoverup, with their medical team under the supervision of an American M.D. and PhD has forged a path of using stem cells ethically, safely and effectively, to the point they are providing cosmetic and medical therapies for patients from all around the world.
And whilst the big medical pharmaceutical companies are still developing further new drugs to be used in combination with stem cells (and telling patients that they need to wait another 5,10,15 years) this team in Taiwan has been perfecting its autologous approach, that is using stem cells taken from the patients own body, and using those very same stem cells in regenerating the patient themselves.
The applications are astounding, from heart regeneration and the treatment of Parkinsons, to cosmetic applications such as breast enhancements and hair restoration.
Now the team has developed a way to re-grow hair successfully, with returning patient data showing new growth, thicker growth and faster growing hair after the treatment. Not only does new hair grow rapidly in the treated areas, the old hairs appear to stay in place longer as well.
However, its not all good news, there is a drawback. Stem cell therapy laws around the world are still in a tangle, with patient advocacy groups arguing that stem cells taken from their own body can be used as they please (i.e. as bone transplants, fat transplants, thigh vein transplants have been allowed).
On the other side of the debate, groups financed in part by the pharmaceutical industry fight vigorously to ban all forms of therapy that involve stem cells, autologous or not. Patients either have to wait for the laws to catch up (optimistically maybe another 5-10 years or so) or go abroad to get their hair regeneration therapy done.
And whilst Taiwan might not be exactly around the corner for some, its not too far a place to travel to, if the goal is kept in mind. For many the rewards would be enough, to wake up in the morning and see hair growing back day after day, as opposed to getting used to seeing hair shed slowly day by day.
Besides, Taiwans Taipei is not too bad a place to visit; its a modern cosmopolitan city thats stays warm most of the year. It could be the trip of a lifetime for some.
About the Author:
*Hamish Stewart is the Marketing Manager at R&R Healthcare. He has spent the last few years working to promote stem cell hair loss treatments that are ethical safe and effective.
He was one of the founding authors of the Charter For Ethical Cell Usage, which encourages the use of autologous stem cells taken from patients themselves.
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