30-03-2012, 05:37 AM
(30-03-2012, 04:19 AM)Bawb Wrote: Awesome find! Should look into this...
I'm a newbie too, so what DHT blockers have you people been using? Fenugreek or something better?
Peony extract blocks DHT through inhibiting the 5 alpha reductase enzyme as well as increasing aromatase.
But it looks like forskolin *really* increases aromatase.
As to the other poster's question:
I have used icool genistein, d-aspartic-acid, peony extract and pueraria.
All of the first three do stuff to realign hormones but pueraria is a very powerful estradiol mimetic as well as blocking DHT.
genistein blocks DHT and seems to somehow invoke mammogenesis if combined with a high fat diet (according to studies on cows....)
d-aspartic-acid either increases estradiol in women or increases testosterone in men but also increases aromatase and estradiol a little too.
peony extract as above.
Forskolin only seems to increase aromatase and doesn't block any of the others so it won't work by itself without a DHT blocker.
For those who are interested the enzymes we're interested in are called
5 alpha reductase which catalyzes testosterone into DHT (so we want to block that), 17 beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (we want to increase type 1 and block type 3) and aromatase (which we want to increase).