Hair vs. Sex & More: The Finasteride Decision - Dr. O Helps You Understand What’s Right For You
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- Finasteride (Propecia,) a DHT blocker, is often used to prevent hair loss, sometimes along with dutasteride. But some patients experience a syndrome of sexual dysfunction including erectile dysfunction, along with issues in mood, concentration, and a sense of malaise and fatigue. These men face a choice between hair and sex. This is because DHT is a powerful androgen that, unlike testosterone, cannot be aromatized into estrogen. In this video I help guide you through the decision of whether to use finasteride, its mechanisms of action, and alternative hair therapies. I also cover additional issues that men using TRT or steroids should consider before taking finasteride.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 - Intro
01:31 - Understanding DHT
03:38 - Biohacking
05:26 - Finasteride Syndrome
06:55 - DHT on the Brain
08:58 - Prostate
10:19 - The Plan
10:42 - ABCDs
11:58 - Trentinoin
12:54 - PRP injections
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I tried finasteride over 10 years ago for my hairloss and had the worst reaction to any medication ive ever tried. I had soft erections, inability to climax, gynecomastia and suicidal thoughts for the first time in my life. All those side effects went away after stopping finasteride and going on oral minoxidil. Havent had a single side effect from minoxidil and havent lost any hair since I started receding 10 years ago. Im not sure if minoxidil would be as effective if I was using gear though.
You sure you didn’t suffer any other side effects? Like hypochondria .
@@StylinProfilin3889bro hypochondriac is fake side effects are an actual thing.. you’re a weirdo man
I’ve been on finasteride since 2005 and have had no bad side effects and my hair grows like crazy.
Dosage ?
5 mg
Wow ,it is dutasteride .
Minoxidil with derma needling works way better for me than finasteride for keeping and growing hair. You don’t have to give up and let the hair go.
Agreed. I use this and I have had great results. But I use the minoxidil orally.
Rubbish!!!
It’s case by case minoxidil and finasteride as well as most prescription hair loss medication work the same way. Topical Minoxidil really messed me had interactions with other medications I was using as well as just episodes of high anxiety as well as negative thoughts and a thinly veiled general anxiety.
@@cajampa ... orally, might as well orally take fin!
says the guy wearing a hat🙄
great info doc!
8 years ago I took it for 5 months because I thought losing my hair was the worst thing on earth. Now I got PFS and I have 0 libido and 0 erections and 0 drive for the past 7.5 years with no real hope in sight.
Doc- what is your perspective on using Saw Palmetto & Pumpkin seed oil and their impact on DHT through 5AR?
Is the effect similar but much less potent than a real medical drug like Finasteride?
Would they have effects on erections also?
1) Testosterone gets deactivated into estrogen.
2) DHT is not crucial nor essential as people who lack the 5ar enzyme live long and healthy lives!
3) There is some evidence showing that finasteride increases muscle hypertrophy as it increases testosterone by like 10-20%.
4) DHT serum levels are meaningless. The concentration in the target tissue is what matters. Also it is not needed!
The main hypothesis is that DHT serves as backup for sexual function in times of low T.
Also, finasteride is very specific to one isoform, the one in the skin, so it doesnt do much in your brain.
I have been on Finasteride since 1999 age (30) when it came out as Propecia. In 2013 was diagnosed with an enlarged prostate so we deiced to update my dose to 5mp of Finasteride which I still take today. At age 54 I have ZERO sexual side effects and can have sex several times per day ( with no TRT) .
that basically means you aer low T
@@soez_strg6166 If he's low T, then why does he still have a high sex drive?
This is first I have heard that Fin/Dut are associated with dry eye syndrome. My dry eye syndrome started about 2014, I saw multiple doctors about it, and I was convinced for a couple of years that I had Sjogrens Syndrome, and I moved to a higher humidity State to mitigate the problem, none of the doctors I saw ever suggested that Fin/Dut could have caused my dry eyes. Unrelated to my dry eye syndrome I stopped taking Fin/Dut Oct 2022. Although it is something that is difficult to quantify, my dry eye appears to have improved 50% from what it was a few years ago. I am still using topical 5% minoxidil, but I have to use a non propylene glycol version, as I have an allergy to propylene glycol.
Try lactoferrin for you dry eyes. It made mine WAY better. Also using an humidifier to keep the humidity at around 55% even in the dry winter months helps a ton. Do not skimp on the dosage on the lactoferrin I take one before every meal. And It actually make the hairloss less for me.
Been on TRT for about 7 years. I’ve have a lot of hair loss and thinning, but I’m not willing to take something else that could have a side affect. Also hats.
For real end up like Russo was for like a year. No thanks!!! I'll go bald 1st!
@@kevinmalcolm4082 What happened to Russo?
Do you recommend taking this or not doc ? Just be blunt
More on prostate plz, thanks doc!
I just started topical finasteride and I think I’m just paranoid and that it’s kind over matter.
Your hairs really good for nearly 60 and in and out of your blast box 📦 over the years!
i think more people should move toward topical finasteride/monoxodil mix
Also I thought tretinoin wasn’t a corticosteroid?
If i already have NAFLD I'm guessing I guessing I should've even consider taking these substances?
So Dr... could we use finasteride or dutasteride while on anavar??? Would hair follicles be safe???
On the subject of hair transplants I was told the transplanted hair from the sides and back of had are resistant to androgenic alopecia. The hair around the transplanted hair will still continue miniaturization at its normal rate without adding in RU58841, dutasteride or finasteride. Any thoughts on this?
True
true, but would like to add that the transplanted hair ALSO can miniaturize. I might be more resistent, but sure can.
Would a topical product like RU58841 be a better alternative to using oral or even topical finasteride? RU58841 is not a 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor. From what I understand 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors increase hair loss while using Nandrolone decanoate and other PED's. RU58841 is not as systemic as topical finasteride. Anyone have input on RU58841?
It does work great but I use it in combination with finasteride. Finasteride deals with the DHT from testosterone and the RU helps with the other compounds
No, it's much WORSE in terms of health. RU is an antiandrogen, meaining it will knock test and dht off the receptor.
While finasteride side effect incidence after long term use has been shown to be the same as the plkacebo group
Ive been taking finasteride for 4 months onces a day. I get no side effects. Noticed my hair getting thicker.
I probably wouldn’t take finasteride whilst on arimidex. Until further study is done. One study not on humans showed that the prostrate increased in volume when taking both.
I take finasteride for about 2 months every other year, that's what it works out to be. I notice my hair getting really fine and dry, which from my research say the follicles are suffering, and it brings it back to full and lush. I get no sides at all.
Very interesting. I have never heard anyone using it like that.
Please give us more info, like what dosage do you use, is this a common thing, is there a name for using it like this so i can find more info? How did you get the idea to try? And how did you know to stop after 2 months? Why every other year?
Is that just when you feel it is needed or is there some known science why this is optimal?
How long have you done this?
And do you think using it topical 2 months every other year would work the same.
How long is your hair? I guess how long you keep the hair should/could have something to with optimal length of dosing.
@@cajampa Proscar is the brand, 5mg, 1 a day, 60 days. No science behind it, just taking advice from the old school guys on the forums of "little is more" only take enough to make it work. I tested it, it worked, I stopped and kept the results for a while. I take it whenever I see my hair change, it gets very fine and dry, nothing will help it, it seems like the follicles are dying, then I take fin and it fixes it for a while. This is my 4th run on it over about 7 years, it's working again and no sides, my hair is thick and lush again. I keep my hair short.
Don't know anything about topical.
@@JuggoJuggo Thanks, dude. OK but 5mg is not the common anti hair loss dose though. That is the shrink prostate dose. Most user are using 1mg. And already at 0.2mg you get 50% DHT reduction and at 5mg you only get up in the 68% range reduction of DHT.
So 5mg sounds weird that is the opposite of less is more.
More like as much as possible. Many are finding they are getting great results on only 0.25-0.5mg EOD.
I think if it does work extra well for you because you keep your hair short.
I like to keep my hair loooong, and if I would wait until I started to look thin it would take years to fill in.
Fortunately for me oral minox and microneedling worked great.
I think your strategy is probably optimal for one who keep the hair short, then you see the thinning easier and you get the full thickening back much faster also.
But it is cool it can even work like this even though it sound very high to take 5mg every day. I mean the half life is 40 hours. That is why many are getting enough benefit at only 0.25-0.5mg EOD.
Do you have pics with evidence?
@@duck2587 No, this is all an elaborate hoax part of my plans for world domination, muhahahahahahahaha!
What about dumping blood every 2 months to reduce high red blood cells and associated high blood pressure? Please do a video on this.
It’s probably one of the dumbest things you can do and makes absolutely no sense and fixes nothing.
@@StylinProfilin3889explain, cuz phlebotomy works for that. i literally just checked plus i do it when my hemocrit gets around 15.7+
@@StylinProfilin3889my comment was deleted..
explain yourself cuz studies and experience says otherwise. its literally recommended for high hemocrit.
@@threestans9096 Most hematocrit tests are done in the morning on an empty stomach, take that same person and fully hydrate them, or take the measurement in the evening if they're someone that drinks sufficient water, and poof, high hematocrit magically gone.
Giving blood is definitely a good way to lower the haematocrit
Hi, im on 300mg testosterone a week, microdose twise a week (0.5mlx2) .. started taking finasteride, been on it 2/half weeks, im terrified of losing erections etc, now was taking 1mg daily, past few days ive noticed my downstairs is not as hard as usual and before taking finasteride id flick it or simply look at boobs and it would go up, now not so easy, would you recomend maybe every 2nd day trying that or ? Thanks
Sounds like placebo. like this actually makes no sense and is your mind playing tricks on you.
High T levels will prevent any type of side effect from finasteride
12:33 dude bout to turn into a werewolf puttin it there😂
I tried Finasteride I heard it doesn't do much for black people it ever says that on the label. I try DHT blockers results were inconclusive
I don't have a hair lost at all I would say that my hair got thicker and I grew more on my chest and face. However I have quite bad ED and I'm only on 200mg a week and 75mg proviron over last week
Estrogens to low because of proviron. With 250mg of test a week I don't need anything. Once I took anavar to gain a few pounds, it tanked my estrogens, I had less libido and ED issues. Went back to normal a few weeks after I stopped taking anavar. Proviron has a lowering effect on the estrogen as well.
@@johnmcashill9919 thanks for hint. I'll quit proviron for few weeks see if it helps.
Anabolic Dock what do you think about Ryan Russo's alleged case of PFS ?
Boner > Hair
You can take Cialis or Viagra and that helps the Erectile Dysfunction
My urologist prescribed it to me to help shrink the prostate..i dnt care bout the hair part ( im bald ) lol. What am i to do
There’s way better ways to shrink the prostate now
@@Yiahi65do share....
Saw palmetto helping anyone?
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Id go bald if my head wasnt so friggin big. I look like crap with no hair.
Fin should be Banned. I had horrible nightmares after just 3 doses. Causes brain changes and depression. Post Fin syndrome is real and ruins lives.
How much did you take?
KEVIN WE NEED YOU
If anyone is interested, there was a double blind, placebo controlled study on post finasteride syndrome. Of those who were given the placebo, a higher rate reported ongoing negative sexual side effects after stopping their medication (placebo) compared to the actual finasteride group. So, while it's true that around 1% of finasteride users do see adverse effects, there's not strong evidence for a type of post finasteride symptom that lasts for years after stopping the medication. The vast majority of people, like myself, have no noticeable adverse effects, and if you do have problems, stopping the drug will stop the associated negative effects.
Bullshit
1 in 100 is a really big gamble for your dick never working again, bruv. 1 in 500 is considered a serious side effect.
On over 10yrs no sides , I personally know over a dozen of men also on it w/o any adverse effects.
@@StylinProfilin3889 I take it off an on for the last 5 years, no sides at all.
Thats quite interesting. Still DHT is a specific hormone, changing it's levels really should change how you feel. Not necessarily sexual dysfunction, but it should change you a bit
Why does The Dr. Look so different?
You mentioned you’re worried about fin or dut impacting cognitive abilities but there are people like Elon Musk taking them without an impact on thinking