Can I combine Finasteride with pumpkin seed ?

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I'm going to reduce the dosage of my finasteride 1mg , due to its side effects , to only 4 tablets / week , so can I take pumpkin seed the other days so I keep my DHT rate low with minimal side effects ?

Jeff Donovan, MD, PhD · Answer

Pumpkin seed oil may have minor benefits but it is not a substitute for finasteride so directly.  There are no good studies that really guide us as to how much worse it is than finasteride but it’s certainly not the same. To make things worse there are thousands of brands and purities and methods of processing of pumpkin seed oil. So the kind one person buys is not likely to be the same as the kind another person buys.  These are not the same. Running 5 minutes from my parking lot to my office is not the same for health and fitness routine as running 60 minutes across town. They are both considered exercise but one clearly does more than the other.

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