Two Great Articles on NCBI That Summarize What We Actually Know About Finasteride Side Effects Finasteride 7/19/2019
The side effects of taking finasteride as a treatment for hair loss, with particular focus on its sexual and psychiatric side effects; research has indicated that there are high and low outliers in terms of prevalence of sexual side effects, but it is usually between 3-5%, while evidence of lasting sexual side effects comes from lower quality sources.
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