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5-alpha reductase inhibitors, like finasteride and dutasteride, are used for prostate issues, hair loss, and excessive hair growth, may help with COVID-19, but can cause sexual and mental health side effects, and their use in preventing prostate cancer needs more examination.

The meeting covered advances in understanding hair growth, causes of hair loss, and potential treatments.

A new compound with strong antiandrogenic effects was found, potentially useful for treating conditions like acne and prostate cancer.

Treatments for hair loss vary, but cell-based options may be the future.

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a prohormone important for producing sex steroids and has potential health benefits.

Dutasteride more effective for hair growth, but has more side effects than finasteride.

Estrogens significantly influence hair growth by interacting with receptors in hair follicles and may help regulate the hair growth cycle.

Finasteride safely lowers DHT levels without affecting testosterone.

Eating less sugar, milk, and saturated fats and more vegetables and fish may help treat and prevent acne.

The document concludes that certain genetic mutations and dietary factors are involved in acne development, and treatments like isotretinoin and diet changes can help manage it.

Some common medications can harm male fertility, but many effects can be reversed.

Long-term testosterone therapy can cause hormone suppression, affect prostate and heart health, and alter physical characteristics, but does not increase prostate cancer risk and needs more research for full risk assessment.

DHT, a testosterone byproduct, causes male pattern baldness.

Spironolactone helps regrow hair in women with hair loss.

Hormones might affect the skin condition hidradenitis suppurativa, but their exact role is unclear.

Germacrone from Curcuma aeruginosa may help treat conditions related to male hormones by blocking a specific enzyme.

Existing drug dexamethasone may lower death risk in severe COVID-19 cases; more research needed for other drugs.

Hormone treatments can help with women's skin and hair disorders, but they need careful monitoring and more research.

Chlormadinone acetate is a strong, well-tolerated hormone used in birth control and hormone therapy with benefits for menstrual pain and skin conditions.

Certain medications and maintaining adequate iron levels can help manage women's hair loss.

The normal human prostate does not significantly affect blood DHT levels.

The composition with carnitine, thioctic acid, and saw palmetto extract may effectively reduce inflammation in hair follicle cells.

GI198745 is more potent and longer-lasting than finasteride, potentially better for treating hair loss.

Lack or blocking of SRD5a, a key component in hormone creation, can lead to conditions like pseudohermaphrodism and affect hair growth, bone mass, muscle strength, and reproductive health. More research is needed on its regulation from fertilization to adulthood.

The document concludes that various drugs can manage symptoms and metabolic issues in women with PCOS.

The study created a test that found hormonal and toxic effects in plant and fungal extracts using prostate cancer cells.

Mice lacking steroid 5α-reductase 2 show less aggression and better impulse control.

Female mice with disrupted 5α-reductase 1 had significant metabolic issues, including stress response problems, insulin resistance, liver fat buildup, and obesity.

LY320236 is a strong blocker of two enzymes that change testosterone into dihydrotestosterone and might help treat conditions related to male hormones.

COVID-19 may affect male fertility and women might have better outcomes due to hormonal and immune differences.