BACCY'S Personal Journal

The picture posted is taken with one day of growth (I shaved bald yeserday) and in broad daylight with a flash. The camera used is a 2 year old Canon Powershot Pro.

You can clearly see the new/rejuvenated follicles but like I say, I can't really use the resulting hair in any cosmetic fashion yet. The entire top of the scalp and front was bald prior to the experiment. No sign of life. What I've got ain't much but it's proof of concept.

I will try to post a pic with a week's growth before I wax for my next experiment. Apparently waxing could give me an 11 fold increase in follicles over non-depilation. The pic shows results with non-depilation.

Take it or leave it, I couldn't give a toss. I've been fighting for 27 years and I deserve to finally get my hair back. I hope that I do.

Sorry about the white skin. I normally slap some tan on but I didn't want to compromise the pic. Also, for some reason it wouldn't accept the jpg file from the cam so I had to convert it to jpg with some demo software, hence the 'image Converter watermark'.

My routine:

I sanded my head quite heavily but wasn't really satified with the damage. So I put 30% glycolic acid peel on top of the sanded skin and left on for 5 minutes. I left the skin to epithelize for 3 days and then applied quercetin, lithium, caffeine and dmso in a alpha lipoic acid cream. I applied that all over the scalp twice daily. After a couple of days of this I found information on the internet that stated that quercetin inhibited wnt signaling AS WELL AS EGF. Well as you know, we need wnt UPREGULATING so I class the first couple of days as an error. I then transferred to milk-thistle extract as the EGF inhibitor and ditched the quercetin. I made a fresh topical mixed into emu oil.

After applying the topical for about 11 days (Day 14 post wounding) I stopped the EGF inhibition topical and transferred to minox with caffeine and lithium dissolved in dmso mixed into the bottle of minox. I also began to use copper peptides. Most recently, I'm using benadryl cream once or twice a day too.
Not very scientific I'm afraid and I can't even remember how many capsules of each substance I used as it was all guesses. I don't think the amount is THAT important.

Search back to July 2008 posts and you'll find a lot of info on what I did as I was doing it.

The next experiment, I will depilate first and then wait 3 days. Whilst waiting, I will begin EGF inhibition with tannic acid so EGF is inhibited DURING epithelization. I still plan on using lithium orotate and caffeine with dmso and emu oil. Tannic acid amount has to be kept low (around 1%) as pure tannic acid is toxic to the liver. Therefore, the amount of dmso must be kept low too so as not to get too much absorption. The next experiment will probably be about 17th or 18th Sept as I'm waiting for the tannic acid. The company messed up my order once and so it's been delayed.