Andrew Huberman· PhD
Post finasteride syndrome is heavily debated.
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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.
Post finasteride syndrome is heavily debated.
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yet those suffering are adamant it’s real.
Post-finasteride syndrome is when typically it's males. This is where it's been described. We'll take finasteride at any range of dosages, from 1mg to 5mg per day. They're either doing this for prostate or more likely they're doing it to offset hair loss and increase hair growth, and then they stop taking finasteride for whatever reason, financial or it wasn't working for them or the side effects were not to their liking, and they start to experience some very severe what can only be called syndrome effects, such as very reduced libido, very reduced erectile function, very reduced mood to the point of depression, even suicidal depression.
Now post-finasteride syndrome is indeed a new phenomenon in the sense that finasteride has been prescribed for a very long period of time for treatment of the prostate, at dosages of about five mg per day. That's a very high dose. Sometimes lower, but as high as five mg per day, and for many years there was no discussion about this post-finasteride syndrome.