29-05-2012, 10:20 AM
(28-05-2012, 09:55 PM)Isabelle Wrote: You are absolutely right. Oats decrease Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG). So you get more free testosterone, but also more free DHT, because SHBG binds DHT even more strongly than it binds testosterone.
Hi Isabelle ....
I have some questions. I understand what you're saying here .... lower SHBG means that you will have more Free T (if total T levels remain the same). And generally since you have more Free T unless you've reached the limit of your 5 alpha reductase then your body produces more DHT. Of the DHT that you produced it sounds like "how much of that DHT actually binds to receptors" is lowered as SHBG is lowered. Doesn't that mean the DHT would have LESS EFFECT on your body since the part that binds is the part that has an effect. If DHT doesn't bind to hair follicles or your prostate gland then it DOES NOT an effect on them. Like if Estrogen doesn't bind to it receptors then it doesn't produce the results of having high Estrogen. (like NBE)
Is there something else going on here? It sounds like it
Karen