99 DAYS NO FINASTERIDE! Main Changes in Mental and Sex Health 

Fact !!!! Also finasteride has NO side effects on mental health (that's pure bullshit). Going bald can destroy your mental however

Keep it up champ 💪🏻

do u have photos of your hair

True. I also feel better without finestride. But everytime I used to look at the mirror , I can't think of anything but getting bald. So yes if I didn't knew that I was getting bald ,I would be better off without finestride.

@@amritprusty4771 fin increases testoreno

Motivation and mood are incredibly contextual and vary throughout your life. Matt knew he was going to stop finasteride so in the back of his mind he had some idea that finasteride has an effect on mood and motivation. That's what he read on the internet. So it is no surprise that a week later he felt more motivated, which you cannot join any conclusions on anyway. There's no physiological or pharmacologic basis for improved mood a week after stopping a drug that stays in your system 4 months.

Finasteride doesn't have any effect that neurosteroids in humans. But let's say that it does, so we are to believe that one week after stopping finasteride his neurosteroids somehow magically already normalized? Lol

Hey man, do you recommend Adderol or is it something that becomes a bad addiction? I know I've talked to people that take it for the same reason of focusing on a task better. Something I have always had trouble with as my mind wanders all the time .

Drugs are bad mkay!

hey bro any updates?

Duta is a poison that changes life and hair.

Was that oral or topical

@@lit3585 oral

Thanks for watching man!

Finasteride thin body and facial hairs

great

Did you lose more hair?

@@RNCHFND yea I lost some but that’s because a took a really long break. When I take a 2-3 month break I just have to deal with going through shedding phases again but not any real loss

@@itaintobeezywhy not try .25 mg every other day?

crush your tablet and add to minoxidil, fint this on youtube" how make topical finasteride "

There is a very simple solution to that. First of all EVERYONE who is taking finasteride should use glycine and ashwagandha. These 2 compounds will negate the mental negative side effects that fin might give you. Second is use topical fin cuz it gets absorbed in the blood way less.

@@skrajina8037 Thanks - Do you have any scientific literature about ''glycine and ashwagandha.'' I have never heard about it

@@lussiez100 you can always crush the pills and mix them with a PG carrier, to make your own fin topical. just fyi.

I’m at .25 mg twice a week and has slowed down or even stabilized things.

In changes in effectiveness or sides since changing to topical fin?

@@flyboyguru6929 i havent switched to topical yet, trying to book a dermo appt first!

Are you saying is there a correlation between DHT levels and inflammation/exercise injuries? Could you please elaborate more on that? Would be greateful. I have more frequent inflamation problems now on higher dose finasteride through the years, and wondering now by your comment then, if a correlation. Thank you.

Are you using any kind of prevention protocol besides fin?

@@dehydrogenase1770 RU, Oral Minoxidil topical fin

@@moredishesmorebishes7044 so no/less sides on topical fin? Which concentration?

I don’t see how you could feel better about impacts to your health using RU instead of fin? Not attacking you just genuinely curious

​@@flapppytappybird7923 I don't know I feel much better off of Oral finasteride and a low strength RU doesn't cause me any side effects (1.5%). I haven't used higher strengths cause 1.5% works for me

How are you getting on with topical fin after coming off oral?

yes, I will. I started with topical 3 years ago but switched to oral for convenience reasons. Topical had to be compounded and re ordered every couple of months so I decided to give it up. Topical F 0.025% is the smartest thing to do with what we know today if your goal is to minimize potential sides and get good hair protection.

Start doing 45 degrees hyperextension and reverse hyper and your posterior chain - ESPECIALLY lower back will be strong like a rock!

It’s worth checking your hip alignment for back issues.

Sedentary lifestyle? or are you an active person who workout and is in good shape?

Get your testosterone levels checked if its low you will wake up with lower back pain.

My personal anecdote, Finasteride/Minoxidil/Dermapen have done miracles for me. They have almost recovered my hairline completely after 9 months. Unfortunately, I still experienced the cognitive sides after DHT inhibition really build-up. It was after I tried incorporating Dutasteride where I really got messed up. Four days, using alongside my 1MG Finasteride and I get the most severe depression/anxiety and brain-fog I have ever had from medication. I was as neurotic/suucidal as a middle-aged hikikomori and had the cognitive performance of a vegetable, no joke. I still have hundreds of Dutasteride pills just rotting away, because I'm sure I'll just end up doing myself in if start this stuff again. Lately, I've been microdosing Fin while finding a way to effectively make topical Finasteride/Dutasteride, I live in the US. By far the worst of the anxiety/depression from these drugs is, at least for me, it's like it's an "impenetrable" layer of cognitive inhibition. Things like meditation/Cognitive-behavior-therapy barely help combat it. Just about the only thing that has helped slightly has been endorphins from exercise, diet-changes, and things like Kratom/Ashwaganda. I am certain it is because these DHT inhibitors directly effect my neurosteroid production and I am sensitive to it. Don't play around with this stuff. I don't believe in post-finasteride syndrome, but these meds have made me hyper-aware of sides from any medications/pharmaceuticals.

@@yathercantillano3874 Thanks for the response. I actually have a quite similar experience as you do. I tried combining fin + dut because fin was not doing the trick for me. I started taking dut on top of fin to build dut's effect before I can completely transition to dut later. I took dut 0.5 mg + fin 1 mg almost every day (there were some days I skipped fin) and my mind was just not right. I was thinking of weird things and became very pessimistic. I stopped taking dut and the side effects went away. I believe mental side effects from fin are less compared to dut, but it can still manifest for some people, especially if they are not seeing the results they want. For people who are seeing the results, probably the positive effects can mitigate some of the negative mental effects. However for you, it sounds like you still had negative mental effects even though your hair was recovering. My question for you is, why did you combine dut then? If your hair was recovered with fin alone, is there a reason why you are experimenting with dut?

@@Soriyou3 Because I was a greedy idiot. I got results which, judging from the demented/depressed posts I've read from reddit/hairloss forums, people would make ppl notalive for. I'm rocking a grown-out buzzcut right now, and you wouldn't be able to tell if I was receding unless you went right up to me and were actively looking for hairline recession. But I wanted my teenage hairline back! You are very lucky if you get any HAIRLINE regrowth from finasteride at all! From what I understand, Dutasteride is the drug primarily recommended if you're looking for substantial amounts of hair regrowth or have a really bad case of male pattern baldness. After trying dutasteride and realizing just how much finasteride's effects were creeping up on me, I have decided to just count my blessings and tread more carefully from now on.

@@yathercantillano3874 You smoke kratom, probably weed too like many people I know. But off course it's fin's fault. Over the yrs I've heard it all blamed on fin, from gray hair, to teeth problems to back pain, it's ridiculous. You age and you don't take care of yourself, on top of it succumb to addictions but fin is the culprit!

@@Soriyou3 Hey any Updates??

Try topical..

And he has many vids online where imhe basically says "all good when you are healthy"... He himself is the best example that this casues quite skme big changes.

I’m 28 been on it 8 years. Listen to this guy.

@@jordancole7789 you'll both be back don't worry :)

You're such a cool brother. I'm planning to quit fin, too. Sexual desire is a source of effort.

​@@how5555 but what about the hair? Dont you think fiansteride is still worth it?

@@SideEffects297 It's a choice. Rich hair, zero libido, depression, anxiety vs shaved head, healthy libido and spirit. Wigs or smp tattoos available.

He was on oral minoxidil while taking a pause on finasteride.

also RU

which studies? its usually normalized by 2 weeks afaik.

@@Abababab2100 The longer you take Fin, the longer it takes to clear from your system. But one thing is for certain, it takes 90 days for Finasteride to clear out of your system from the last pill you took. I have heard some people take about a week, some a few months. The hairloss show covers this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QxTtGsj1nWk.html&ab_channel=TheHairLossShow

The weight gain is because of age. Not because of finasteride. Again ... why blaming everything on finasteride ? You started finasteride at 55 years old. You are now 5 years older (60) and obsiously, lots of people gain some weight as they get older . This has nothing to do with finasteride as you would have gotten the same amount of weight if you were not on finasteride during those last 5 years. Try to go on a ketogenic diet by reducing the amount of carbohydrates you eat per day. Also try fasting a bit. It will definitely help you lose weight.

Do exactly what this guy said. 👆 Don’t have break straight away. Don’t need it. Do a 16:8 fast. Eat between 10am - 6pm.

@@exactly1176 it can certainly cause weight gain. A decrease in androgens and an increase in estrogen can cause some weight gain.

​@@davidomeara4704 Any studies to back that up?

"So far I see no reason to take it" is this a tpyo ? 💀

@@bigbob5103 yes 😞

​@@H.E.M. what dose did you take?

@@azeemmohammed4550 0.5mg for about a year but raised it to 1mg since I noticed 0.5mg didn’t do much in terms of regrowth. Once I jumped on 1mg daily I had a massive shed like 200 hairs in the shower for 4 months. Obviously I got it back and my hair looks great after 2 years on fin. Just stick to 1mg because some say 0.5mg is only a bit weaker but in my case 1mg was the better choice. So you can gamble with your hair with different doses but it’s a waste of time.

Hi Thomas. 0.5mg every other day

why would you not need finateride?

what was the dosage of fin?

Don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but to keep your hair if you’ve had 3 transplants , it will continue to thin

@@Ryan____Z I have gone back on topical finasteride but instead I only apply it every other day instead of every day. No side effects! Dose is 0.05% with 5% minoxidil.

@@Ryan____Z I have gone back on topical finasteride but instead I only apply it every other day instead of every day. No side effects! Dose is 0.05% with 5% minoxidil.

I'll give you another example. Over the last 14 years my hair loss has stabilized and has not progressed. Despite this, 3 months ago I put myself on finasteride (to cover my bases) and what I did was watch RU-vid videos that were extremely pro finasteride. What happened? Rock hard boners and libido went up. That's how these things work.

Mental well-being is extremely subjective and varies incredibly a lot during your life. That being said, testosterone is the driver of mental well-being in men, not DHT. Given that finasteride will increase your testosterone levels, your mental well-being would stay the same or go up. It has for me.

@@Re3iRtH Finasteride is 5AR inhibitor. 5AR is not only involved in the synthesis of DHT but also neurosteroids. Neurosteroids modulate, anxiety, stress, and depression. A reduction in neurosteroid levels can also lead to a reduction in dopamine levels. There is a reason depression is stated as a possible side effect on the packaging.

@@johannbell333 That is incorrect my friend. Finasteride blocks the type II isoenzyme of five alpha reductase which is located in the sebaceous glands, the prostate, and the hair follicles. The type I isoenzyme that is found in the brain is not affected by finasteride (it is affected to a small degree by dutasteride though), not in humans anyway. Read up a little bit more about biochemistry before parroting stuff you read on the internet. And even if the type I isoenzyme was affected by finasteride in humans, it isn't but let's say it is, the studies that show finasteride has an impact on neurosteroids are using 100 to 1,000 times the dose (in mg/kg) in rodents to show this effect. A dose that no one will ever take. Again, you have a very poor grasp of the biochemistry.

@@johannbell333 Depression was was NOT found as a side effect in the clinical trials that led to the FDA approval. It wasn't even found as a rare side effect. Two decades later the lawyers decided to add it to the side effect profile to prevent the manufacturer from being sued. Think about it, it was so unheard of and rare before the age of the internet and the anti-finasteride forums that it was not even found in the initial clinical trials in any minute form. They had to add it to cover their butt to protect Merck from not being sued by depressed balding men.

Im gonna go from taking 1mg tabs per day to .5mg. To see if it makes it better.

1mg gives you the highest hair count. 0.5mg is not far behind.

@@ytsux9259 Thanks! Did you experiemtn yourself?

Are you allowed to use topical dut right after transplant or do you have to wait a couple of weeks? I'm currently on fin 1mg daily and I also bought topical dut from MinoxidilMax but I'm not sure yet if I'm ready to start it.

Why are you on your 4th hair transplant Lmao. Does it have any effect if you have had to do it 3 other times??

@@noelnoni7310 you can do May you can? Until you have donor area

@@Ben-ld1qi my doctor told me to hold topical until fully healed. I held topical for 4 weeks For sure Matt can help us on that Great question

I mean were the earlier transplants not effective? Why do you have to do 4 transplants instead of 1?

Nice, do it! Look...I did the T, E, SHBG, etc. test before and 4-5 months on Fin. My T went up and E went a bit down, SHBG up. I felt good initially. I have never had any issues sexually when I was on it besides having lower loads. With this experiment I found out for myself that I can actually feel better mentally once I take some time off with Finasteride and then get back again. I spoke to a hair doc who is doing it also so it is not just me randomly trying to manipulate Finasteride usage manual. And even if the mental state improvements are placebo, I will keep taking less Fin and cycle it as long as I am getting hair protective benefits. It's only the FDA white knights who will always claim that Finasteride should be taken in a 1mg dose a day because FDA said so 25 years ago while forgetting that FDA was using data for this approva that didnt acknowlege what we know about micro dosing or research on topical Finasteride back in the days.

Contact BHR clinic in Brussels, schedule a zoom call, get a prescription and they ship it to you from there.

absolutely man!

hey any updates?

Have you tried to lower the dose? Whats the experience on that

Over the last 14 years my hair loss has stabilized and has not progressed. Despite this, 3 months ago I put myself on finasteride (to cover my bases) and what I did was watch RU-vid videos that were extremely pro finasteride. What happened? Rock hard boners and libido went up. That's how these things work.

@@Re3iRtH Placebo is real

@@Re3iRtH the reason your libido went up on Finasteride is that it prevents Testosterone to DHT conversion, therefore you temporarily have more Testosterone available. The body will balance it out by converting it to estrogen (that's were the possible side effect of developing man boobs come from).

There is no doubt in my mind that Finasteride destroys my mood. but you don't have to take it every day.

How are you holding up?? This comment really interested me. I was on 1 MG of fin for a month and had terrible effects

Nice...I learned something new here. Im pretty observate in my body changes in feelings. I was taking .25 everyday...now I've switched to every other day.

How's it going man? Still on 0.005%?

Any update on the 0.005%? Where did you get that compounded?

Can you tell me how you made 0.005% solution ?

nope man, no back pain since 1 year and more

I am on fin for 6 months already but still experiencing alot of hair loss, also thinking about switching to dut. Did you notice a significant difference when you switched to dut? Thanks!

@@McLeitonis if 6 months hasnt at least put out some of ur hair loss fire then it probably will not in the future. Now im not a doctor i can tell u to just switch but from experience when i did i almost immediately within a bit more than a couple of weeks started noticing it was a much potent solution

which brand/

@@raphaelfernandes5195 i think orally it has only one brand which is Avodart from GSK 0.5 mg

@@95DnX just 3 times a week/

Basically nocebo.

@@H.E.M. Precisely.

3 months? I thought FIN stayed 30 days

@@joan9498 No 30 days is the time you could stop finasteride without any effect whatsoever. The effect and drug stays in your scalp for up to and over 90 days. The hair loss doctors from Australia on RU-vid use the 3-month number.. and as a board certified M.D. myself I agree with them.

@@Re3iRtH What the hell are you talking about? The reason why finasteride has to be taken daily is due to its short half life. Within 6 or 7 days the drug and its effects will be completely out of your system. 90 days the minimum time you are expected to see any result from the drug, not the time it takes to leave the system.

They have many hair loss solutions that don’t involve finasteride. Hair transplant. Redensyl, and hair piece. It’s not worth risking your health to save your hair!

I was on fin for 5 years, been off for 4 months and I'm still not back to pre-fin libido and erection quality

What side effects please

What was the affects please don't say that and not tell us

hey any updates?

@@dennybrockmann9005 yeah. I noticed an increase in sex drive and semen volume. But I can still perform perfectly well when back in finasteride

Hey any update??

I think you have not much to lose when you give it a try imo. potential side effects are always reversible

Yeah for me there are so many side effects and I dont like that

@@letsgethair always/

@@letsgethair I would have already gotten a hair transplant and taken meds if it didn't fuck with your hormones. Thats where i draw the line

it is common. I also get this boost always when I re-introduce it. In the last 2 years whenever I decided to restart it after a several month break, I got the same increase too. It tapers off after some time though.

After finasteride discontinuation it takes 14 days for DHT levels to return to normal, this is because the DHT suppressing properties of Fin continue to work after all the FIN has been washed out of your system (After 1-2 days). The reason why you can take breaks from FIN up to 3 months is because the half life of the 5AR-Enzyme is 30 days, which means that after 30 days half of the enzymes blocked by finasteride still remain and so even after 3 months some enzymes are still blocked by FIN. I think the most severe side effects of finasteride are the changes it causes in the neurochemistry of your body which result in the symptoms you listed above, also known as brain fog. Unfortunately these symptoms sound for many wishy washy, since everyone can have them at some point in their life, I for example suffered from brain fog for 2 years, and at that I neither had hair loss nor knew about finasteride. People can always argue that you having a hard time in life coincided with you taking finasteride. And most clinical studies used for fin safety approval don't really give the subjects a clear definition of 'depression', 'anxiety', 'tiredness', etc. to report them instead they only test for sexual dysfunction. This is also because it is really hard to asses the mental wellbeing of a human in a questionnaire with 3 options for side effects. Additionally the symptoms you described above for many sound completely normal? Like who hasn't a day feeling extremely tired? A day not being focused, etc.? For example when I had brain fog I thought it was completely normal since my life wasn't so shiny either before I got it, you only realize this after a LONG time. Whether finasteride causes a brain fog with the severity of mine (which was like hell, I fehlt I had dementia all the time) or a light version of it, which I guess most people can endure and go on with their life, idk, I haven't tried it, but I trust Matt and I think this experiment of him pretty much demonstrated that mentally you will feel better without FIN, but taking it won't ruin the quality of you life, the way brain fog ruined mine. So I think the brain fog caused by Fin is tolerable, although not having it at all is always better :) Now the only question is, is this worth not loosing hair? Since I obviously have a bias, considering I suffered from brain fog independently from finasteride, I probably won't try it due to extreme anxiety of the chances of re-experiencing the hell I luckily escaped. But if I had not experienced brain fog in the past I definitely would give it a shot, I mean Matt isn't dying either, obviously he still makes RU-vid, when I had Brian fog I wouldn't even imagine showing myself to the camera and talking to people since even talking felt exhausting. Now that I've gotten off topic, I might as well tell you the rest. When I told a friend of mine that I had Brian fog shortly after I recovered from it (I believe it was due to overstimulation by multimedia and carbs which I stopped by starting with less screen time, more exercise, diet change, meditation, etc.) he told me it was all placebo, which reminds me of the people telling those who experience side effects that it's nocebo.

Yes I would be more cautious with Finasteride oral and would be only willing to test topical 0.025%

You can but over time you may feel the difference in some ''stats'' and then you can lower the dose or take a break for 1 month and resume. Also supplementing creating helps with replenishing the DHT too

Thanks. I know this video. As I said. I am more than 3 months on no Finasteride but because I use a topical anti androgen + minoxidil I am not seeing any increased shedding or loss of hair thickness. If you only use Finasteride for hair loss prevention and then you stop for 3+ months, then you will definitely experience what docs from hair loss show were talking about.

The loads are better if you don't take Finasteride/Dutasteride by many guys me included. But I talked to guys who impregnated their partner while on finasteride also even if the load might have been lower. The question is, does it significantly affect your sperm volume or sperm motility?

pretty weak one for men, but good one for women and treating FPHL

@@letsgethair Thanks. I now understand that spironolactone can cause breast tissue growth so it is not used in males.

Sure man. However taking some time off of a medication like FIN (that is not treating life threatening conditions) won't harm you. I didn't have any major expectations before starting this experiment honestly...

Cognitive bias

I took 6 months off once and my libido was weaker on the drug. But I won't say that is because I was off the drug either.

Correct. They're actually some great studies done where one group of patients were counciled that finasteride has these and these side effects, while another group did not. The group that wasn't counseled basically had no difference from placebo whereas the counseled group telling them that this drug has side effects actually had 10 times the side effects. This tells me that any perceived side effects from finasteride are merely nocebo effects.

@@mortenbroue yep and to be fair when the second we get on finasteride we start 2nd guessing ourselves the second we are not walking around with a massive boner 24/7. It's so silly but it happens. I was wondering why before I was able to have sex twice in the same night no problem, then my nymphomaniac Puerto Rican lover came over yesterday for the first time in a while and was able to go for three sessions easily. You also have to realize it will vary woman to woman and day-to-day. When you're really think about it the same things you experienced on finasteride happened when you weren't on it but the nocebo effect is very real and you're psyching yourself into not being able to perform. Had you not known about those side effects you wouldn't have noticed anything.

how long did it take before these improvements got there? And how is the topical version for you?

Hey agreed. How long till it went away

nope because I was on RU58841 also and oral minox

@@letsgethair both medicaments aren´t dht supressor..

Gonna get back on it soon. I talked about it in the video

@@letsgethair thanks Matt! Love your videos 😀