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And then, like, one day it hits you and it's devastating.

And you're just like, shit, I guess I am prone to hair loss.

I thought I was immune this whole time.

That's not the case.

Dude.

Yeah, it's rough.

Okay, so... No, I certainly don't want to leave a podcast saying...

Get on finasteride or dutasteride or else you're screwed.

Like there's an ROI calculation to be made similar to any sort of hormonal therapy that is not to be minimized.

There are side effect profiles with these drugs, just as there is with any drugs.

But I would compel you to look at the actual literature and assess what the prevalence was among those who were subjected to DHT deprivation in finasteride users and dutasteride.

And it is not much different than placebo in very, very rigorous and significant high number of subject studies that were well-constructed studies.

This is not something that...

A lot of it is media driven.

It's not to be ignored.

Some people get devastated by these drugs, but it's a minority of individuals.

And it's just kind of like, do you want to be one of those individuals who takes the risk or not?

There are ways to assess if you're more likely to be one of those individuals.

If you were a low androgen status individual to begin with, for example, I have low normal free testosterone with a borderline, you know, hypogonadal looking DHT level to begin with.

And I'm still already having hair loss like,