[TibetanPrincess]

you can just eat oats every morning? I think no matter what, you may be aromatizing some of your T anyway. DHEA also help makes estrogen so there is no guarantee it will become test. from personal experience, I have experienced High free T in my blood as well as high estrogen due to high dhea levels. The rise in dhea was from herbs and literally taking dhea. So go ahead, you'll see, you just have loads of hormones floating in your blood freely.

I became a mild hirsute after this!

But were you low on T, or were you taking it for other reasons? How long were you taking it?

Does anyone else also think that DHEA is a terrible idea? I guess I'm just wondering if it's worthwhile to take it for a short amount of time just as a kind of "bandaid", and test my hormones to avoid excess, which is the same way people use PC of they know what they're doing.

I thought about lowering SHBG with oats instead, like I think you're suggesting, but it turns out that it may not be a good idea. Someone on another board had this to say about it: "...when you reduce SHBG, free test levels will not be affected for longer than a few minutes tops, as this increases test excretion. So total testosterone is lowered and free testosterone remains the same."

I feel pretty lost. I appreciate your opinions on this stuff, since you've had the opportunity to see how various supplements effect your REAL hormone levels, rather than just relying on theories. I hope someone else will chime in to.

I don't know, this was my first attempt for nbe and I was 25. I blindly approached it. So stupid, now I will never truly know. I am not saying its a bad idea, I am just insinuating, there may be no feedback loop effect to have your body adjust if creating too much free flowing T and E.