Some Guy Says He’s Going To Do Some Thing To Cure Hair Loss
Telegraph out of the UK reports that 27-year-old Oxford grad Thomas Whitfield (Myspace) is heralding an end to baldness as we know it, with a secretive new venture called TRX2:
Whitfield: enjoying the spoils of hair
Still in stealth mode as the intellectual property is in the process of being protected, Whitfield plans to have his “product and service” on the market within 12 months. His only guidance is that it is not based on “gene therapy” – an area being explored by several other British start-ups.
Telegraph suggests that Whitfield is The Real Deal because he’s already made a scrapbooking site:
To add to his credibility, he has already founded a successful internet venture called Miomi.com , which plots user-generated personal histories.
Sounds reasonable to us.
Another brassy hint-dropper was internet supplement hero Dr. Mercola on March of last year:
Mercola: the bald leading the blind
(On a side note, if you don’t have much hair, like me, then this is not a big deal. But I will start some investigational ADULT stem cell topical therapy soon, and there is a 90 percent chance I will have a full head of hair in one year — so at that time I’ll be paying more attention to my hair care. Dr. Phil starts it this week.)
and again a few months ago:
I am actually in the process of beta testing some topical stem cell factors that promises to provide me with a full head of original hair in the next three months. I am taking pictures daily so it will be fun to document the process.
Last we looked, Dr. Mercola and Dr. Phil’s heads still looked like undescended testicles, but there is still another month to go. Look, more cooks in the kitchen is a good thing in our case, but we could do without the perpetual overstatements that lend themselves to free hype-based marketing. There are many hopeful people that cling to these unrealistic promises.
Bonus: here’s a small video of Whitfield fishing for ideas at HealthCamp UK, in Nov, 2008: link
mercola is insane. he thinks hair loss can be cured with vegetables and dietary changes in someone’s younger years. i hope whitfield really does have something.
just a futur king in the marketing area!
This is all very sudden and all very secret. I really hope this isn’t some kind of hoax to get publicity for his other website.
He has either stumbled upon a “miracle” growth formula and which he spilt on his hands casung major growth or this is just a way of attention seeking.
Fear not though my fellow follicularly challenged bretheren HM is going to happen (at some point anyway…).
More likely while he was doing his Phd on the Hepatitis C Virus p7 ion channel; vaccine development, biophysics, structural biology and drug inhibition studies, one of his test mice unexpectedly got all hairy, probably something to with ion channels, the same way that minoxidil is thought to work on potassium ion channels but maybe he figured out a better pathway- possibly using the SGK3 pathway which other researchers have noted as essential to hair bulb health. Good luck to him anyway
Hi,where did you get these informations about this guy?
Ghetto that is an incredible amount of knowledge! Are you TW in disguise or have you looked into this before?!
If this is the case – is it likely to be a topical substance that will need applying daily ( a la minoxidil)?
Also is it likely to regrow hair out of “dead” hair follicles?
No, not him just making an educated guess. Seeing as he is not bald himself I’m guessing that he was not driven to discover this therefore it was more likely an accidental discovery via his research. I did a google search on him. Turned up this:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/bb3/1b4
“• DPhil (PhD) in Biochemistry: Structural and functional analysis of the Hepatitis C Virus p7 ion channel; vaccine development, biophysics, structural biology and drug inhibition studies”
One of minoxidils purported methodology of action was on ion channels. However more recently there has been a discovery that a deficiency specifically of SGK3 in knockout mice creates weak hair follicle bulbs that don’t mature and migrate down into the scalp, creating weak thin hair.
If you do a search of pubmed you can find quite a few references to the SGK family and their effect on potassium ion channels. So yes it may be a bit of a leap but I’m guessing he got an unexpected result in one of his lab mice either by opening up or blocking an ion channel and seeing unexpected growth and is trying to work it up into humans.
Seems very quiet!
this guy know very well the internet system!
Any update on this anyone know of?
When and where are patents published?
they dont have anything hair cloning wont be out for another 10 years maybe more