PatBateman said:
I thank you guys for the great info, but where is the proof that this "magical" treatment is less than 5 years away. I am a total skeptic and balding and am tired of all the hype and snake oil bullshit. Maybe there is a good treatment coming, but if everyone says 5 years, I bet it will be 10.
Hmmm... I sense your frustration ;-)
Listen, cloning, etc is not "magical" any more than transplantation is. We have "good" treatments NOW, relative to 20 years ago. At one point in time, transplantation was unthinkable. Read the post below first of all.
http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=2204306#post2204306
You'll see that this is coming from the research community, especially the Asians. It only progresses as fast as it progresses. But there's nothing snake oil or bullshit about it. What IS snake oil and BS are some of the clinical people out there trying to coat-tail on the IDEA of cloning, hair "multiplication", etc, to appear "ahead of the curve". Don't confuse the two.
We saw the same thing in the mid 90's with laser transplantation: sounded great in theory, was a total bust in clinical application.
You may be right, it may be ten years if they say five, but the basic science guys tend to be pretty conservative in their estimations. Their professional reputations hinge on it.
BTW, what kind of "proof" did you want? If it ain't here yet, it ain't here yet! ;-) Be a skeptic, by all means, but not a cynic. They're not the same.