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Until you understand the difference between giving pure DHT and raising DHT by giving testosterone you will not understand. There is a difference.

Ma ̊rin et al. compared the effects of transdermally applied T and DHT to a transdermal placebo treatment on changes in body composition and triglyceride uptake and release from adipose tissue in middle-aged  eugonadal men with abdominal obesity who were treated daily with these androgens for 9 months. In response to DHT, circulating mean levels of DHT increased to 223 ng/dL  at the end of the treatment whereas mean T levels declined to hypogonadal levels. Elevated DHT was not associated with statistically significant changes from baseline for body weight, body mass index, waist or hip circumference, lean body mass, total fat mass, and subcutaneous fat mass. There was a modest but statistically significant increase in visceral fat. DHT treatment was without effect on triglyceride uptake in abdominal and femoral sub- cutaneous adipose tissue and in lipoprotein lipase activity in abdominal fat.


Giving DHT will significantly reduce testosterone hi, up to 90% there for reducing estradiol as well. In other words, you lose all the wonderful beneficial effects of testosterone and estradiol when you give just DHT. But when you raise DHT by giving testosterone you maintain all the wonderful, beneficial effects of testosterone, estradiol, and DHT. You give testosterone and you raise free testosterone levels, which then enter the cells in DHT and estradiol, sensitive tissues, and then are converted to DHT and estradiol. Once those receptors are fully saturated, which occurs at a fairly low testosterone level, then the DHT and the estradiol are just excess. Once the receptors are saturated, what in the heck can they bind to to exert in a response? please answer me that? We are measuring excess at that point, and not what is at the cellular level.


And by the way what you provided  was nothing more than abstract surfing, which is not good. Abstract surfing to try to make a point is not a good way to make a point because you obviously didn't read the articles themselves and understand the articles.


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