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And for females,

PCOS females, like it doesn't take that much of an androgen burden to start to miniaturize.

Like it's pretty quick and noticeable.

And most hair loss outcomes with women come from autoimmune related alopecia areata, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, nutrient deficiencies, things of this nature.

They're typically not in a pattern of like androgen related miniaturization.

But when it is, it's like often pretty obvious why.

And it's just more rare.

So like

You know, when people want to speculate about what caused it, what doesn't cause it, it's like the largest anecdotal experiment plays out in real life every day with men versus women aging.

And it's like, who's the ones with hair loss?

Like the guys, like I know the most dialed of biohackers with infinite resources who are still bald as hell.

regardless of all the special stuff they tried that wasn't like the drugs that work.

And it didn't work, unfortunately.

I would love to have a natural therapy that moves the needle, but at least for me and what my knowledge, the extent of it, it's that DHT inhibition is...

Almost a necessity if you're prone to hair loss.

The capacity to which you do it is dictated by genetics, androgen load in the scalp, and free androgenic signaling.

And your risk profile will be dictated by your own tolerance based on your interpretation of the scientific literature.

And then there's some adjunct stuff.

Once you attenuate the miniaturization potential for the androgen-related activity in the scalp, that's where you can then look to

You can have a bit of a top up like ketoconazole shampoo, for example, is like a mild antiandrogen too that could add some additive protection on top of, let's just say you're on finasteride instead of the more nuclear dutasteride and you felt like that risk profile was superior, for example.