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Welcome to Follicle Thought

This website is dedicated to the millions of people around the world who have an interest in hair restoration, especially those who are new to the subject. Started in February 2015, this site will examine the treatments that are available and treatments being developed to regenerate one’s hair follicles. Interest in hair growth treatments is very common among wide groups of peoples.

Mission Statement

To bring forth the most relevant information about leading-edge hair growth technology and discovery.

To advocate global awareness about what can be done for those seeking a solution to hair loss.

To help bring forth an optimal hair regeneration treatment to the masses. 

To receive support for these efforts through a sustainable exchange.

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20 Comments

  1. Beth on December 25, 2015 at 12:48 pm

    Hi Joseph,
    I appreciate your site, and, I will promote it. I am the mother of a teenage girl who has hair loss, so I am very interested in research. As a result, I have been contacting other women with this issue via Instagram, Google, youtube, etc.

    I am going to start a Letter Writing Campaign to these companies and researchers. It is going to be a positive letter, emphasizing why this research is important to me, and, to keep on pursuing it. I will ask the connections I have to do the same. I notice too often that a team does research, and it goes no where, due to lack of funding, etc.

    I am going to send this letter to companies and researchers both through email, but also a hard copy on nice stationary to emphasize the personal touch.

    Thank you for leading the way, and, I will spread the word about your website.



    • Follicle Thought on December 26, 2015 at 9:24 pm

      Hi Beth,

      Thanks very much for sharing your story and kind words for my work. I do believe sending your appreciation to researchers and companies will be well received. I do believe that most of them are doing the best they can behind the scenes to create funding and opportunities for their technologies.

      You bring up a good point. What can we do to streamline the funding and development of these treatments? There is an enormous amount of potential resources for hair growth treatments. The demand for it is obviously exponential. The amount of money willing to be spent by the world is much greater than the sum that is required to develop the treatments. But how do we actualize all of this? I will consider these points. For now, everyone’s positive thoughts and the multitude of us holding a vision of our goal is very supportive.

      I wish all of the best to your family and believe that treatments like Replicel and Histogen should be inspiring to you.

      Thanks
      Joseph



  2. Beth on December 29, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    Thank you very much, Joseph.

    I am in the process of devising a plan of action for contacting companies, and will get back to you about this.

    Thank you for all the information.
    Sincerely,
    Beth



  3. dermot on February 14, 2016 at 3:48 pm

    good work keep us hair wanters up to date please



  4. Paulo on May 20, 2016 at 6:57 pm

    good work



  5. Johan on July 17, 2016 at 6:57 am

    Keep up the good work Joseph,

    I hope there finally will be some breakthroughs in the near future. I am following the companies for years now and are very hopefull.
    Hoping for promissing news soon!

    Greetings from the Netherlands.



  6. Basia on July 31, 2016 at 12:33 pm

    Hi Joseph and All,

    I’m 29 years old girl from Poland having androgenic hair loss problem for over 10 years… I just found your website and it brings me back hope that I already lost some time ago … I keep fingers crossed for trials of Replicel and others…
    I’ll be coming back here frequently.

    greetings!



    • Follicle Thought on July 31, 2016 at 10:46 pm

      Thanks for stopping by Basia, really nice to hear from you. I hope for more good news soon.



  7. sets on October 31, 2016 at 11:53 pm

    hey joseph great site!
    from where for you is “the cure” coming?
    shiseido?
    histogen?
    tsuji labs/riken/kyocera?
    or 3d printing??

    in my opinion tsuji is a full cure with unlimited hair.



    • Follicle Thought on November 1, 2016 at 4:10 pm

      Hi Sets,

      Thank you for the kind words. I guess it depends on the individual. Someone with a little bit of thinning can be cured by Replicel or Histogen presumably. Someone who needs more extensive regeneration could presumably use a tsuji treatment. All of these treatments can be coupled with a traditional hair transplant as well. This puts a “cure” within reach for just about anybody.

      Thanks,
      Joseph



  8. Mohannad on December 5, 2016 at 3:16 pm

    Hi Joseph!

    I am so grateful for your effort to put this website to keep us updates with advances and latest developments in the pipeline. Just going through your website, I felt much better knowing that there is plenty coming up in the near future. I am 28 years old and I’ve been suffering from hair loss for the past 5 years. Minoxidil did work to prevent further loss, but I had to stop it since I developed puffiness of face and blood shot eyes. Thanks to you, I have developed an optimistic attitude towards whats coming!! keep up the good work, and let me know if you’d need help with anything



  9. Craig on December 29, 2016 at 2:45 am

    Joseph I would like to know if you can give me your phone number and a good time to call? I have some questions and information for young it would be so much faster if we could speak over the phone Thank You



  10. Follicle Thought on January 4, 2017 at 3:05 pm

    Hi Markus,

    Thanks for visiting. I have not heard of cloning hair at home yet, but several companies are working on cellular therapies. Please check Ultimate Guide for updates on treatments.



  11. René on January 12, 2017 at 4:49 pm

    Hello Joseph,

    first of all I would like to wish you a happy new year and above all healthyness. Secondly I would like to thank you for all your effort, reasearch and for sharing all this with us. I can imagine how much time you need for all this. Ever since I found this blog I can´t wait to read your newest Info. This is by far one of the best sites regarding this subject if not the best 😉

    Thank you a lot and greetings from Germany Joseph.
    René



  12. Pär karlsson on February 7, 2017 at 4:08 am

    Hi,
    I can’t see anything new about Follicum and their fol-005. I know that the study they are doing is to stop hairgrowth but they can moderate it to the opposit.
    Thanks for a great site!
    Pär



  13. JG on February 22, 2017 at 7:42 pm

    Hi Joseph,

    I just found this Blog and it’s really amazing what you are doing, thank you so much for the hard work on keeping us posted on hairloss news!
    I’m 36 and I’m dealing with hairloss since 16… I started using Finasteride even before it was approved for HL, I tried SO MUCH stuff, it’s almost unbelievable! 20 years have passed, and treatments are basically the same… I’ve been able to maintain a lot of my hair, most of people don’t even notice my HL. I can share some pictures.
    Right now basically I’m on DUTASTERIDE and MINOXIDIL.

    Can you please share with us what is your regimen?

    Thank You!

    JG



  14. V on March 31, 2017 at 11:04 am

    Hello – Great work and as an aside, the clean design of your site makes it easy to navigate.
    Am wondering what progress you see being made in treatment of menopausal hair loss? I have been on a three-year quest to address this and I don’t feel I’ve made much progress. Too many directions to turn and doctors are not being much help; it seems they really don’t get it either.
    Thank you.



    • Follicle Thought on March 31, 2017 at 1:45 pm

      Hi V,

      Thanks for the kind words. I have not heard much about treating menopausal hair loss specifically and would imagine the treatments that would work for menopausal cases are the same treatments that work for AGA in general. This site keeps track on all hair growth treatments in general; it just comes down to when new ones become available.



  15. Juan Francisco Marin Avila on April 13, 2017 at 1:11 am

    Thanks



  16. James Keep on May 14, 2017 at 5:31 am

    Great site thank you