Does Fin affect your muscle gains and strength gains in the gym

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The fact is most of the science talks about its sexual side effects and not much known/studied about its effect on muscle gain. Few say DHT has absolutely no effect on gaining muscle. However, few have mentioned hard time gaining muscle weight while on finasteride. It is supported by a theory that finasteride will negatively affect muscle growth due to the fact it stops 60% or so of the conversion from testosterone to DHT. It is possible that the decrease of free testosterone can influence muscle gains. DHT will actually stop some of the aromatase activity so adding Finasteride will allow for more conversion to oestrogen. Oestrogen is suppressive of the HPTA and causes an increase in SHBG. SHBG will bind more of your test suppressing your gains on cycle and increased HPTA suppression will cause recovery difficulties off cycle resulting in losing more gains that you would otherwise. I am curious to hear few more posts on this topic.