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If you had to choose between permanent hair loss or suffering ED, which one would you pick?<\/p>\nIf you had to choose between permanent hair loss or suffering ED, which one would you pick?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an honest question because drugs commonly prescribed to help halt hair loss have now been proven to cause ED\u2014even years after using them.<\/p>\n
But these drugs are not just prescribed for hair loss.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re also used for another (not so vain) common condition. So if you\u2019re a man over 50, chances are great that you\u2019re taking these drugs, with dim side effects of ED.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re talking about any of the 5-reductase inhibitor drugs like finasteride (Propecia) or dutasteride.
\nThese drugs are mainly prescribed for two conditions:<\/p>\n
1.\tmale pattern hair loss (androgenetic alopecia)
\n 2.\tenlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia).<\/p>\n
Scientists at Northwestern University have just published a study in the journal PeerJ that focused on the severe side effects of these drugs.<\/p>\n
They used medical information from Northwestern Medicine\u2019s electronic data repository of men who had taken 5-reductase inhibitors.<\/p>\n
Of those men, 1.5% of those taking these drugs developed ED as a direct consequence. And the sexual dysfunction lasted for 3.5\u20136.5 years after they stopped using the drugs.<\/p>\n
This stands in stark contrast to the promise on the drug labels that the symptoms of ED vanish the moment you stop taking the drug!<\/p>\n