Tag: androgen

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Age-related steroid deficiency may be treatable with niacinamide

The study is actually about eye health, and the effects androgens play in it. However, the findings…

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Prostate levels of androgens/DHT drastically lower in prostate cancer patients

Yet another study, which raises serious doubts about the so-called “androgen hypothesis” of prostate cancer (PC). The…

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Fasting / stress decimate gonadal steroidogenesis

A very interesting and very “controversial” (read: inconvenient truth) study, since it shows beyond reasonable doubt that…

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DHT may treat thyroid cancer

Yet another “non-endocrine” tumor turns out to be anything but. Thyroid cancer rates have been rising for…

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DHT as anti-inflammatory as cortisol, but without the side effects

As most of my readers know, glucocorticoids (synthetic or bioidentical) are widely used clinically and there is…

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DHT can stop aging of the pancreatic beta-cells (insulin-producing)

Another great study, which demonstrates that far from being a “villain” (in both males and females) DHT…

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Scoliosis (even in females) may be driven by low androgen levels, DHT may treat it

I am posting about this condition as it seems recently its numbers have absolutely exploded in the…

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Stress ups cortisol/estrogen/prolactin, drops DHT, causes male infertility and prostate issues

If you try to discuss infertility with a fertility/reproductive specialist or an endocrinologist, and mention that chronic…

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DHT, not T, likely the “active” androgen in heart and brain

Interesting study, done on baboons (so should have good relevance for humans), demonstrating that the cardiovascular system…

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Estrogens cause obesity / PCOS in women, DHT is protective

Female obesity and the closely related condition PCOS are perhaps the female equivalent of the so-called “androgen…