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Testosterone Replacement, Low T, HCG, & Beyond
When Testosterone Is Not Enough
Kisspeptin suppression under TRT: Can it affect mood and libido?
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<blockquote data-quote="Cataceous" data-source="post: 185241" data-attributes="member: 38109"><p>A tip of the hat to "ghce" <a href="https://www.peaktestosterone.com/forum/index.php?topic=15957.msg143440#msg143440" target="_blank">over at PeakT</a> for the link to this article:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/133633[/URL]</p><p></p><p>It is recent and goes into detail on possible links between kisspeptin and libido. If TRT does disrupt natural kisspeptin production then we may be looking at one of the mechanisms by which TRT harms libido.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>We observed that kisspeptin significantly enhanced brain activity compared with placebo in key limbic areas related to olfaction and sexual processing...</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>...</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Moreover, kisspeptin’s enhancement of thalamus and insula activity corresponded to these established areas of activation during physiological sexual arousal (35). Collectively, these data indicate that kisspeptin augments olfactory as well as sexual and emotional processing in response to pleasurable olfactory stimuli in men.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>...</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Here, kisspeptin significantly enhanced brain activity in both the olfactory and sexual arousal systems but not in the control motor system, which highlights the specificity of kisspeptin’s effects (Figure 2C).</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>...</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Kisspeptin enhanced brain activity in areas governing the evaluation of beauty, on viewing female faces. ... Together, these findings demonstrate that kisspeptin augments the processing of facial beauty across a spectrum of facial attractiveness, therefore serving as an amplifier within the human neural aesthetic circuitry involved in the assessment of facial beauty.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cataceous, post: 185241, member: 38109"] A tip of the hat to "ghce" [URL='https://www.peaktestosterone.com/forum/index.php?topic=15957.msg143440#msg143440']over at PeakT[/URL] for the link to this article: [URL unfurl="true"]https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/133633[/URL] It is recent and goes into detail on possible links between kisspeptin and libido. If TRT does disrupt natural kisspeptin production then we may be looking at one of the mechanisms by which TRT harms libido. [INDENT][I]We observed that kisspeptin significantly enhanced brain activity compared with placebo in key limbic areas related to olfaction and sexual processing...[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]...[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Moreover, kisspeptin’s enhancement of thalamus and insula activity corresponded to these established areas of activation during physiological sexual arousal (35). Collectively, these data indicate that kisspeptin augments olfactory as well as sexual and emotional processing in response to pleasurable olfactory stimuli in men.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]...[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Here, kisspeptin significantly enhanced brain activity in both the olfactory and sexual arousal systems but not in the control motor system, which highlights the specificity of kisspeptin’s effects (Figure 2C).[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]...[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Kisspeptin enhanced brain activity in areas governing the evaluation of beauty, on viewing female faces. ... Together, these findings demonstrate that kisspeptin augments the processing of facial beauty across a spectrum of facial attractiveness, therefore serving as an amplifier within the human neural aesthetic circuitry involved in the assessment of facial beauty.[/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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