Could genetic differences explain why some individuals develop Post-Finasteride Syndrome (PFS)?
Dr. Will Powers
Moral Medicine · 1:04 (64s)2026-05-07
Dr Will Powers’ own statements and theorizing
Mentions treatments or doses — not guidance
Key points by timestamp (paraphrased)
- 0:00–0:12WGS vs 23andMe: "23andMe is like 17 megabytes of data. This is like 100 gigabytes of data. It's enough to basically clone you. It's your whole genome."
- 0:15–0:35Method: Browsing whole genomes alongside blood/specialized tests from transgender practice; "I'm an autistic pattern recognition machine... good at seeing patterns in the snow."
- 0:39–0:51Scale: ~100 PFS patients treated; invited ~a year prior by Dr. Peters, who "set up the whole World Congress on the post drug syndromes."
Timestamps come from auto-captions and can be off by about five seconds.
Why it’s in the corpus
PFS genetics; whole genome sequencing; susceptibility
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