Interview with Dr. Alex A. Khadavi, creator of Revivogen, (page 3)
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HairLossFight.com: Thanks for the detailed description. What studies are being done on Revivogen itself? Are you in the process of doing any studies at all, or have you completed any studies?
Dr. Khadavi: We have completed one initial pilot study. It was not an independent study, but was done within our laboratories, in which we have shown that patients between the ages of 18 and 50, men and women, after a 9 month period of use of Revivogen, had shown that 88% not only had prevented further hair loss but actually noted regrowth. What we noted as regrowth is conversion of those little baby fine, peach-fuzz hairs into thicker, longer hairs. Currently we have a large study [being conducted] which is both private practice and and university-based, that is working on having a hundred patients, ages of, again, 18 to 50. This is going to be placebo controlled and it's going to be completely independent, and this is an ongoing enrolment study. So hopefully we will know within the next 6 months to a year what the results will be.
HairLossFight.com: Excellent. We look forward to seeing that in the near future. What can be expected in terms of maintenance of your hair and possible regrowth, if you stay on the product for the appropriate amount of time? And I guess with regard to that, what would be an appropriate amount of time before one can guage the results that one is obtaining from the product?
Dr. Khadavi: Well that's a great question because Revivogen (or any other product) is not going to regrow your hair overnight. Any product that claims that is basically not going to really work for you. So what you should expect in 3 months is that your hair loss, or hair shedding should start decreasing, and after 3 to 6 months you should start noticing that your hairs--those little baby hairs, or fine hairs--are going to grow longer, they're going to grow thicker, and they're going to grow darker. Now, this process continues for up to a year and a half where you're able to regrow or re-stimulate those hairs that have been susceptible to hair loss to grow back to 3 to 5 years [worth of hair loss]. So the maximum you can expect, while being on the product is while being on the product for the last year and a half your hair is going to go back to what it was 3 to 5 years ago. Once you've obtained those results you can taper off of Revivogen use but you cannot completely stop it because your body and your hair follicles are continuously producing DHT. You still need to suppress the DHT. However you will not need to use it everyday, you can use the product every other day and still maintain your results. And the important point, again, to say is that this product is not going to regrow the hair that you have lost over 20 years. The maximum we have seen is people regaining the hair that they have lost 5 to 8 years ago. Most commonly you are going to regrow hair that you have lost within the last 3 to 5 years.
HairLossFight.com: That sounds reasonable given the similar sort of response that people see with Finasteride or Minoxidil type treatments.
Dr. Khadavi: One difference with Minoxidil however is that, Propecia and Revivogen work to turn back time--that is, if you stop the product you are not going to lose all the hair that you have gained right away. So you're basically turning the clock back to those years. With Minoxidil, however, all the hairs that you have gained, once you stop using the product, because your hairs become addicted to the Minoxidil, all your hairs start to shed right away. That's the basic difference of how Propecia and Revivogen work when compared to Rogaine.
HairLossFight.com: Would you recommend that people that use Revivogen also supplement or use Revivogen with any other treatments like Minoxidil or Propecia? Will they see better results by combining the treatments?
Dr. Khadavi:There are a lot of people that have been using Rogaine or Propecia and start using Revivogen and we don't get them to stop using those products because they have been using them for many years and we have a lot of Revivogen users that have been successful without using any other products. You just basically need to use Revivogen because Revivogen basically addresses the 3 methods of hair loss, the Propecia and Minoxidil methods and a method that neither one of those work against.
HairLossFight.com: Do you plan on adding any new products to the Revivogen line?
Dr. Khadavi: Well we have a scalp therapy, a shampoo and a conditioner. We are not planning on adding any other products to the line because the most important factor is using the Revivogen scalp therapy. That has the active ingredients and if you allow it to stay on your scalp for three hours, the ingredients will absorbe into your scalp. The shampoo and conditioner are great in that they are a gentle shampoo and conditioner that thicken your hair while you use the products, but there is no other [Revivogen] product that is going to accelerate the effect of the Revivogen scalp therapy so we don't intend to add any other products to the line.
HairLossFight.com: What about extra ingredients. You did mention that there is research being done on various proteins and compounds that may stimulate the growth of hair. Anything like that in the works for Revivogen?
Dr. Khadavi: Well, there are 50 proteins that are currently being studied--over 50 actually--that are involved in the hair cycle and hair loss. These are basically called proteins, peptides, or oligomers. All of these work to recapitulate or stimulate the hair to the hair growth cycle. Revivogen itself is not doing any studies based on any of these proteins. I follow the research both in the journal reviews and through friends of mine which have laboratory studies, but Revivogen is not focusing on adding any of these ingredients. Revivogen, however, is testing within my laboratory to see what are even more powerful natural stimulators, not specifically proteins, that can be used to stimulate the hair to go into growth phase. I'm not working specifically on the proteins but I am looking at natural derivates. These natural derivatives are derived from both plants and fruit. Once we have further studies on these we will be disclosing that to the public and including you and your site.
HairLossFight.com: Thank you very much for the interview. I'm sure this information will be very useful to our viewers.
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