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
