What's Your 5-alpha Reductase Up To?
A very smart practitioner was asking, if a woman is low in testosterone (T) in her 40s, but still menstruating, can you give her T replacement? But then she had also smartly run in this patient’s blood work, the next metabolite of T, DHT (dihydrotestosterone). DHT is the second yet most powerful male-boosting metabolite.
Excess DHT is thought to contribu…