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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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Finasteride in Women of Childbearing Age

There is about a 50% success rate when you apply finasteride and post-menopausal women with hair loss. DHT in a developing male fetus is the driver that makes men look like men for lack of a better way to explain. So we would never want to use finasteride in women of childbearing age. And it's not FDA-approved at all in women, and for those reasons in particular. Do young women with PCOS also experience hair loss? It can be devastatingly bad.

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