Can You Take Propecia After 50 or 60 Years of Age?

Hello docs! Thanks for an interesting site.
I’ve been wondering: Will finasteride have any effect in use when someone has passed the age of – lets say 50 or 60, if one at that age has a full head of hair, or is only slightly thinning? I mean – is thinning at that age also related to dht miniaturization or is there a different mechanism then at work, just the ‘age cause’, but without the dht playing any crucial part? Or is mostly all thinning, whatever age (also diffuse thinning) caused by the effect of dht.

Propecia is a medication that is prescribed by your doctor for the treatment of androgenic alopecia. You can be 20 years or 70 years old as long as you were diagnosed with male pattern balding or androgenic alopecia. The doctor should be able to prescribe the medication for you. The key to determine when the drug Propecia (finasteride) might have value, is the presence of recent hair loss. I’ve had patients who start the medication at between 50-70 years of age who recently lost hair as a result of a delayed appearance of some undiagnosed hair loss pattern that took that long to makes its appearance. When there is recent hair loss, the results can still be good, even for a 70 year old.