Certainly it’s possible. And I think that if properly done, it might actually work. But the problem is that there is so much money, perverse incentives, graft, and fraud in the hair loss industry, that it is almost impossible to untangle. For example, was this study funded by the hair loss industry (probably not overtly), are the authors biased, etc. etc. etc.
I have been contacted by more than (I stopped counting a few years ago) 34 different investors and charlatans to develop PEMF products to “claim” that it reverses hair loss. Several of them even said: “it doesn’t matter if it works, it just has to look sexy and sound plausible. People will throw their money at it.”
The people in this business are the worst sort of scumbag.
I have been offered nearly $1B cumulatively** to just say that ICES-PEMF works to reverse hair loss. I’ve been offered a villa in Mexico at a health spa (twice).
I am trying to help people. I help people who have extreme, crippling pain and disability. I have to stay far away from this morass of hair loss products and the dirt-bag charlatans that orbit around it like vultures.
So… does ICES-PEMF work for hair loss? Maybe, maybe not. I don’t know. You could try it, let us know, give advice based on your experiences with it. Plenty of people have an honest interest in it, so it’s worth discussing. But I have to stay away from it myself.
Scientifically, I would only believe a paper if it were REPEATED (REPLICATED) BY AN UNBIASED, INDEPENDENT GROUP. One-off scientific reports of astounding scientific findings are almost always just wrong. In my experience, this is true 100% of the time. If the scientific finding is astonishing, important, or valuable, and no one repeats it independently… that’s a big red flag.
If you are going to try this, keep in mind: it may make hair loss worse (some treatments actually do).
My advice: It is probably very sensitive to intensity, so I would use PEMF at very low power settings. This will almost certainly give you the best results while minimizing your risk.
** Note: I do not for a moment believe that any of these “offers” were legit. The scumbags in the hair loss industry scam everyone, customers and inventors alike.