29-05-2012, 03:45 PM
Hi karen,
It's the other way round: the protion of DHT that can bind to receptors increases as SHBG is lowered.
But my answer to Sarah is a simplification. Suppose, as you wrote, all 5α-reductase isozymes are effectively blocked. Then there is no DHT to begin with. In that case, lowering SHBG only increases free testosterone. That free testosterone will become estrogens.
So once all androgen symptoms are under control, high oats doses help NBE. I don't understand why, but Menohop seems to have lowered your DHT, because libido is low. So you could try oat flakes. I have tried it in December, and I want to try it again. Oat flakes are the lowest priced NBE herb I use. And L-arginine and maca do very little that oats couldn't do.
It's the other way round: the protion of DHT that can bind to receptors increases as SHBG is lowered.
But my answer to Sarah is a simplification. Suppose, as you wrote, all 5α-reductase isozymes are effectively blocked. Then there is no DHT to begin with. In that case, lowering SHBG only increases free testosterone. That free testosterone will become estrogens.
So once all androgen symptoms are under control, high oats doses help NBE. I don't understand why, but Menohop seems to have lowered your DHT, because libido is low. So you could try oat flakes. I have tried it in December, and I want to try it again. Oat flakes are the lowest priced NBE herb I use. And L-arginine and maca do very little that oats couldn't do.