The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
One can be your ratio of androgens to estrogens is off, and that needs addressed. Another one can be it's inhibiting the conversion of your progesterone to that other type of progesterone, the 5-alpha, 3-alpha, that we talked about earlier that's helping with your sleep and your brain, and your calmness. And that's definitely an effect. Another one is depending on the type of supplement or med, they inhibit different isoenzymes of that 5-alpha reductase.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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So finasteride does two and three, saw palmetto does one and two, and then dutasteride does all three.