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<blockquote data-quote="AbsoluteZ3R0" data-source="post: 72399" data-attributes="member: 15174"><p>DHT isn't often measured in routine bloodwork for TRT, but one thing I've noticed is that when it is it's usually never out of range. Like estradiol, DHT is a metabolite of testosterone and one would expect it to go up as testosterone levels rise, but it doesn't seem to rise to the same extent as estradiol in response to elevated testosterone levels. Why is that? Is there any circumstance in which DHT would actually decrease in response to increased total testosterone? I remember reading once that in hypogonadal men, sometimes 5-alpha reductase activity increases as a compensatory mechanism, since DHT is the stronger androgen. I don't know if there's any truth to that, but I do find it interesting that elevated DHT rarely seems to be an issue for men on TRT. Obviously, there are men who lose hair more quickly after starting trt, but do these men actually have their DHT levels measured before and after to confirm the correlation?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbsoluteZ3R0, post: 72399, member: 15174"] DHT isn't often measured in routine bloodwork for TRT, but one thing I've noticed is that when it is it's usually never out of range. Like estradiol, DHT is a metabolite of testosterone and one would expect it to go up as testosterone levels rise, but it doesn't seem to rise to the same extent as estradiol in response to elevated testosterone levels. Why is that? Is there any circumstance in which DHT would actually decrease in response to increased total testosterone? I remember reading once that in hypogonadal men, sometimes 5-alpha reductase activity increases as a compensatory mechanism, since DHT is the stronger androgen. I don't know if there's any truth to that, but I do find it interesting that elevated DHT rarely seems to be an issue for men on TRT. Obviously, there are men who lose hair more quickly after starting trt, but do these men actually have their DHT levels measured before and after to confirm the correlation? [/QUOTE]
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