Reducing finasteride dosage can help mitigate side effects without negatively impacting hair growth.

“What this means is that given that reducing DHT can cause various side effects, sexual side effects, reductions in either sexual function or sexual drive, as well as overall drive and motivation, sometimes even some depressive symptoms that everything points to taking the lowest effective dose of finasteride and starting with a very low dose of finasteride because low doses of finasteride, even at that 0.01mg taken orally daily, are already leading to a 50% reduction in dihydrotestosterone and thereby taken for a long enough period of time, should offset hair loss and stimulate hair growth.”