Topical Lugol's Iodine regenerates scar and completely removes it
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Awesome practical study. Given it's influence on hair growth around scars, I wonder if Lugols topically applied to the scalp can spur hair growth for balding men
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Why don’t you experiment friend ?
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@OliverCloasov lugol's plus tretinoin plus dermastamp while reducing prostaglandin d2 / prolactin / increasing co2 systematically. Maybe add in topical progesterone gel.
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@RawGoatMilk88 I'm considering trying a self-experiment
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I would be interested to hear your results, I will micro-needle and apply some as well.
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@RawGoatMilk88 I'm thinking along the same lines, I have a micro needle roller & 5% logols. I figure to needle, then paint on some Lugols then apply a wrap of some sort similar to the study's approach. I'm not sure what to use for the wrap, possibly saran wrap (though I'm a bit concerned about microplastic contamination). Still figuring out the frequency. I'm also going to look into raising systemic CO2 as @thyroidchor27 suggested as a support. If I remember correctly the follicles run on sugars, so I may adjust my diet a bit for this. I was considering honey topically along with the Lugols, but the study says anything other than iodine and water would prevent it from working
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I’ve been micro-needling once a week and applying tallow with good results.
If I were you I wouldn’t worry about the wrap, will make it too impractical and interfere with consistency, plus as you say, issues with microplastics on open wounds.
I’m going to try micro-needling once a week and applying iodine directly after with tallow on the other 6 days of the week.
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@RawGoatMilk88 What results did you get with tallow? Regrowth or just better hair structure? I tried lard last year and didn't feel any benefit from it
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@RawGoatMilk88
I think Danny Roddy said somewhere that micro needling or pinching the scalp can help temporarily hair growth by increasing nitric oxide. So long term is not the way to go, you want to increase CO2 instead -
For whatever it's worth i've read elsewhere (RPF?) that diluted iodine applied to the scalp brings benefit. I don't recall the purpose though, it may have been for anti-fungal use.
And in regards to the thread's title, iodine has been decribed as similar to an escharotic, so correcting certain skin abnormalities wouldn't surprise me.
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I’ve noticed both of the above, nothing miraculous, but a clear improvement nonetheless.
