#61

You need to compare the photos to the previous ones. I monitor changes in my hair with a macro camera and compare changes in terms of colour change and new growth to doses of rapamycin.

I don’t need you to agree with me. The process of reversing balding is a hard process and it takes a long time.

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#62

Well, I hear you and I’m not disagreeing just for the sake of it, but you won’t reverse balding with Rapa no matter how high a dose. Again, I don’t know how you feel about minoxidil and finasteride (or if you’re taking them) but if you were to take them together, you’ll notice a big difference in 3-6 months. Unfortunately, Rapa won’t reverse your balding even if at times you get couple new hair here and there.

When I was balding myself, there were times that I’d feel I’m getting new hairs back (out of the blue) and that my hair line is improving etc… but they were all false alarms LOL and I was nowhere near as bad/bald as you. It is just normal process of balding, sometimes you get few new hairs, and then all of a sudden other hair just disappears.

#63

At the core of the process is mitochondrial function. That drives the rest. Rapamycin can improve average mitochondrial function. I agree with the idea that dealing with DHT is also relevant.

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#64

For my age, I didn’t have much grey when I started rapa two years ago.

I now have considerably more. Would I have more if not taking it, I dunno?

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#66

Has anyone else had this experience?

I do know that intermittent fasting, extended fasting and caloric restriction can accelerate hair loss through telogen effluvium (and possibly graying of hair). mTOR inhibition does mimic a portion of fasting so it is mechanistically feasible.

#67

I think probably.

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#68

If this is about my experience, I will clarify I still don’t have a ton of grey, and it’s significantly less than my friends have. I was just late to the party by not getting my first grey hair until I was over 50.

So, I don’t think rapa has caused any of it. I ‘should’ have a lot more than I have when turning 60 next month, I just know it didn’t prevent it.

John thinks it probably slowed it, and from what I see it doing to my health, I can believe it!

#69

red light therapy regrows hair as well as minoxidil…but it takes 4m to see results

i am trying it out to see if it can reverse white hair…like boost atp / helps the stuck melanocytes get unstuck…

#70

I don’t think red light is the same as minoxidil. They have different function.

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