DHEA-S/Pregnenolone vs hCG

[Roccc]

Does hCG increase DHEA-S and Pregnenolone?

 

[James]

Rocco - I'd like to know that myself. I posted a similar question a while back that didn't get a lot of activity. My guess is that it does, but don't know for sure. I've been off DHEA for about a week and can say that I do feel better without it. I've been lucky never to have had any testicular atrophy, but will try HCG one day soon.

 

[Vince Carter]

Ive been off DHEA for two weeks, off Preg for almost 4 weeks and I feel perfectly fine and using 200iu HCG E3.5D. I do not believe that HCG stims testes (or anything else) to produce DHEA/Preg. DHEA is I believe an Adrenals function. The time I've been using HCG, multiple DHEA-S tests were always lowish but supplementing seems to aggravate my Estrogen. Several of us are now making that correlation with DHEA, though we're low, its making our E very hard to manage.

 

[Roccc]

Ive been off DHEA for two weeks, off Preg for almost 4 weeks and I feel perfectly fine and using 200iu HCG E3.5D. I do not believe that HCG stims testes (or anything else) to produce DHEA/Preg. DHEA is I believe an Adrenals function. The time I've been using HCG, multiple DHEA-S tests were always lowish but supplementing seems to aggravate my Estrogen. Several of us are now making that correlation with DHEA, though we're low, its making our E very hard to manage.

We know that testosterone shuts down natural production. What about PREG? Preg shuts down my natural preg production?

 

[MikeXL]

Yes, HCG increases DHEA and preg. HCG as a LH memic stimulates the CYP scc enzyme which fosters the conversion of cholesterol to pregnenolone, which begins the cascage. DHEA is further down stream