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#43 - Alan Bauman, M.D.: The science of male and female hair restoration - how to protect, enhance, and restore the appearance and health of the hair and scalp

The Peter Attia Drive

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Prostate Cancer and Hair Restoration Surgery

The literature in the prostate land is still very confusing about lower rates of prostate cancer, but potentially higher grade when it strikes. So I can tell you how that's been explained to us as hair surgeons by the urologists that were involved in some of those studies. For example, finasteride,. 5 milligrams is one of the more prominent treatments for BPH, benign prostatic apertory, a large prostate. The regular prostate tissue shrinks. And so what happens if the normal prostate tissue is shrinking and you go to biopsy that tissue, you might be more likely to find some high grade cancer or cancer material in there just because the normal tissue is less volumin

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