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Dr. Kenneth Skinner called me back this morning. First of all, he says that people have been contacting them via email, and it's distracting them. WSMR requests that everyone please refrain from contacting them as their schedules are quite busy. DO NOT EMAIL WSMR ... or call them. Do as I say and not as I do, please!. ha ha

Dr. Skinner said that a couple of their scientists will take part in a television program in the U.S.A. called "Prime Time Live", and to look for it sometime in January or March. He said that the discussion will revolve mainly around their peptides for a brand new psoriasis treatment, but would like to talk about their other exciting research like peptides for hair loss if time permits.

Now the rest of this stuff is what I can vaguely recall and is by no means a direct quote of Dr. Kenneth Skinner, so any technical details that I miss are on purpose due to my having barely passed the only high school biology course I took.

Dr. Skinner said that as far as their research is concerned with hair loss or androgenetic alopecia, DHT AND contact inhibition are factors in MPB, but are not the entire problem.

He says that even with their peptides to switch on hair growth, DHT inhibition is still part of the solution, and from what hair loss products we do have for stimulating growth, it sounds like their peptides will be an improvement over existing products. I'm thinking of Rogaine here, but again, don't quote me or the doctor. He believes that hair follicles atrophy due to, I think, cytokines not releasing VEGF and other growth stimulants in the necessary cells.

I asked him about whether the peptides were working as gene transcription molecules inside the cell. He said that the peptides were binding to a receptor on the outer cell and affecting the targeted cell in , and I'm uncertain what was said now, but I think he said that a hormone other than DHT of which access to the inner, targeted cell was being blocked by their peptide molecule. He wouldn't elaborate on which hormone it was because that was proprietary info, but that the peptides were not acting as a steroidal hormone in that the peptide does not penetrate the cell by way of a pathway or channel or whatever. Again, my lack of technical knowledge was preventing me from fully understanding. He said something about an extracellular calcium-magnesium ion being tilted toward becoming more calcic than magnesium (sorry).

He also mentioned that WSMR is courting "one of the top three pharmaceutical companies" who are very interested in WSMR's peptide research for psoriasis and cancer, and are working diligently toward that at this time.

Sorry if I didn't reveal the secret of the rosetta stone because it all might as well have been Egyptian I was listening to today on the phone at certain points. Dr. Skinner sounded extremely knowledgeable and very enthusiastic about WSMR's future endeavors. I was impressed to say the least.

cheers! WB

For full details of WB's post and related discussions in the forum, please follow this thread:  HairSwitch Peptide

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