Tag: androgen
Fasting / stress decimate gonadal steroidogenesis
A very interesting and very “controversial” (read: inconvenient truth) study, since it shows beyond reasonable doubt that…
DHT may treat thyroid cancer
Yet another “non-endocrine” tumor turns out to be anything but. Thyroid cancer rates have been rising for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Low DHT can cause hypogonadism symptoms even in eugonadal men
Seemingly contradictory title, but the study findings are pretty clear. Namely, even in males with normal testosterone…
Androgens (T, DHT) highly protective against the flu
A gem of a study that throws a wrench in one of medicine’s core dogmas – i.e….