Swiss Clinic Offers Stem Cell Transplants to Regrow Hair
Hello,
I found a website about Ars Medical, a clinic in Switzerland that does stem cells autologous transplantation in order to regrow lost hair. Here is an excerpt: “In ARS Medical, the physicians perform Autologous Transplantation of your own Stem Cells that are harvested from your fat and are activated by specific technique before use. This hair treatment is absolutely natural and safe. There is no risk of side affects of other treatments , such as allergic reactions, infection or irritation to the skin of the scalp.”
Their website is available here: ardsmedical.info
Could you please tell me what is your opinion about this technique? Is is safe and effective?
I have read several articles and from what I could understand, the research is still in progress and not yet reliable.
Best regards
I do not know if it is safe or effective. I wonder if they will be publishing their research or results in peer reviewed journals. Without such publications I would put their claims into the trash heap, and coming to market prior to proof in the medical establishment is borderline scam territory. The site doesn’t show any photos of patients, doesn’t list any doctors that work there, and looks to focus more on selling their shampoos.
I think you said it best yourself, “not yet reliable.” What more can I add to that?
This seems a little too suspect. Stem cells are tricky beasts, even if you manage to isolate the right type of stem cell, unless you culture them correctly they can change to different types of stem cell or just not grow properly. I would be sceptical to think they had managed to coax fat stem cells to transform into some sort of skin hair follicle stem cell and were seeing good results.
There are many clinics offering so called ‘stem cell’ treatments but its such a broad concept and it certainly isn’t a simple one. I have been told about clinics offering knee arthritis treatments by using cartilage stem cells within reputable EU countries, however the results they are seeing are poor because it is not simple a case of take some cells out put them in. This is why companies such as aderans and replicel are having problems.
Not a shred of scientific evidence that this approach has to date been commercially successful. Dr R is correct. If this company was successful, can you imagine the publicity and sales that would be generated by publication of their results in peer-reviewed scientific journals? It would be worldwide news. Instead, they -a s many “stem cell” clinics around the world prey on the naive, with no refund policies I’m sure
If all they are doing is injecting stem cells then I can imagine it’d be a failure. why ? because in bald areas there is no lack of stem cells. theres still reservoirs of stem cells even in bald areas. the problem is that the stem cells are not differentiating into progenitor cells and its these progenitor cells that are necessary. I just wonder why they arent injecting progenitor cells. and hopefully one day soon they will find out how to cause the stem cells to awaken into differentiating again into progenitor cells