Balding might bruise your ego — but your hair-loss fix could be messing with your mind.

New research out of Israel suggests that patients using a popular drug for male pattern baldness face a significantly higher risk of mood disorders and suicidal thoughts compared to those who don’t.

“The evidence is no longer anecdotal,” Dr. Mayer Brezis, a professor at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center and lead author of the study, said in a statement . “We now see consistent patterns across diverse populations. And the consequences may have been tragic.” 4

The drug in question? Finasteride — better known as Propecia — which was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in the ’90s.

Animal studies have linked finasteride to long-term brain inflammation and changes in t

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