Hair Regeneration Part 2

[gbp2000]

I recently reported my experiment with wounding. Before I had used needling, which generated some results which were visible as miniturized terminal hair, that grew to full size over six months. This time, I used sandpaper which generated thick, terminal hairs in my oldest bald area (just over ten years) in two weeks. This area had no visible velus hairs.

I can now raise the total regeneration to 9 hairs in this area.

In the secondary zone, where I inflicted a lighter wound to reduce visibility issues, I have only generated one hair. All other thing's being constant, I believe that the greater wounding played a significant role.

Even though the wound has now healed, I am still applying my garlic / castor oil / aloe topical for a few hours each day. I am also applying it to a non wounded area.

My current belief is that the greater the hair density in any given area, the greater the chance of generating more hairs and restoring the area. In other words, slick bald tends to stay slick bald, mild loss is easier to reverse.

I wonder if this might be a case of reversing the calcium issues that Prague spoke of - and that getting one hair in a slick bald area may make regeneration of the other hairs much easier (no wounding needed). As new hairs grow, so the support systems are regenerated, making it easier for new follicles to come on line - a virtuous circle.

In which case my best bet might be to calculate optimum distances (a complete unknown at the moment), and apply very small, but intense wounds across my scalp in serial in an attempt to start to rebuild the support networks, then concentrate on filling in the gaps.

I hope this is of use to some of you. I intend to start using topical magnesium but will hold off until I have enough evidence to build a more complete theory of local hair density to hair regeneration probability. If there is no correlation then the local area support networks of fat, collagen and capillaries is not a significant factor and mass wounding would remain my only option.

Should a correlation exist then I may be able to leverage wounding with other methods to expedite my regrowth program.

[Swimmy]

Interesting..When I was reading up on hair cloning. Off the top of my head they mentioned some of the problems they initially faced. Transplanting the hairs individually would be impossible so they have to grown them in cultured groups since they seem to work as a group in signaling each other to grow. individually they would just die..I think I got that right.

But I guess maybe the theory may work here. A slick bald area lacks any hairs. So no hairs in the vicinity to signal each other. Where a area that isn't totally bald has hairs to signal the area around it into a a growth phase.

[Swimmy]

Edit: Met to say they cant grow the hairs individually.