My Experience With Low-Dose Finasteride to Lock In My Prime

Disclaimer: Finasteride is a potentially risky business. I know about half a dozen people on finasteride and, other than the beginning, nobody noticed any side effects. However, anecdotally, for some men, finasteride has a lot of downsides, including depression (and rare reports of suicidal ideation), brain fog, and libido issues. Furthermore, there is a risk of post-finasteride syndrome – though the risk is probably much smaller than what online communities make it out to be as most people who have no side effects on the drug just move on with their lives and do not write about it. In other words, the internet is a magnifying glass for the people who have a negative experience with a drug. Anyway, I used a specific strategy to lower the risk of PFS – more details below.

I did not want to write an article about finasteride before having been on the drug for at least one year because I feel that this amount of time is needed to properly judge benefits and side effects.

A little over a year ago, I started a microdose of finasteride (hoping) to slow down my rate of aging from a cosmetic perspective, despite having no signs of hair loss whatsoever. Background: Individuals with hypogonadism look much younger than they are vs. steroid users look much older than they are. Thus far, the results seem very promising.

Finasteride is part of my “TRT lite” protocol, which is discussed here. Essentially, a low dose of finasteride allows me to reap many of the benefits of TRT (e.g., drive, libido, muscle growth) while not having the visual aging acceleration associated with it. I probably age more slowly (from a cosmetic perspective) on my TRT lite protocol (HCG + finasteride) compared to not being on TRT at all.

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