Finasteride and Muscle loss?

So the question i see popping up on bodybuilding forums quite a lot is — “What is the effect of finasteride on muscle gains/losses?”

This is due to the fact a lot of bodybuilders through the act of taking steroids, experience hair loss to some degree.

One such way of stopping this, or at least slowing this process down is by taking finasteride.

Finasteride is actually used to treat enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia) and male pattern hair loss.

With the latter, it affects DHT follicles in the scalp, so that the DHT can’t break down the follicle over time. That’s putting it quite simply, but the fact is DHT is the enemy when it comes to keeping your hair.

So let’s cut to the chase;

The national standard bearer for rigorous clinical trials didn’t find a relationship between Propecia (finasteroidand) and muscle mass.

So if that’s the answering you’re looking for then there you go. You don’t need to go on any further.

But, if you look on bodybuilding forums, you do see this topic come up frequently by users, as i said before.

So why the talk of finasteride and gains?

Well, a small study published in the March 2016 edition of the journal of Andrology may be…