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I CANNOT back this up scientifically. Im only suggesting the obvious while concluding that there in fact has not been any long term studies of what effect long term systemic supression of dht has on the aging body. Common sense would suggest that any altering of testoterone levels of this magnitude will affect your body in many, perhaps subtle, ways over the years. Short term clinical studies most likely will not be able to uncover such gradual changes or accelerated degeneration. Perhaps your skin just wrinkles a litle more and faster as you become more vulnerable to the attack of free radicals, or perhaps dna is more easily oxidized and the notorious damage from bad diet, lifestyle, toxins, pollution, radiation and other stuff is accelerated if your homone balance is not intact.
Nowadays hormones are introduced to repair socalled telomeres on the dna. You may say that this has nothing to do wiht dht supression, but its known that testosterone does play a role in aiding genetic repair and telomerase and thus, in theory, any altering of testosterone levels could also potentially affect telomerase. I obviously cant know.
As we age the secretion of many hormones declines and their effectiveness (compared unit to unit) is also reduced due to the receptors down-grading. Again, thats why growth hormone has been put forward as a potential age defiant (although clinical studies show no clear benefit in this regard). If we´re left with more testoterone circulating in your bodies, some of this will be converted into oestrogen even if it does not result in any experienced side effects. I just wonder how this affects the ageing process when you also consider that hypothalamus, as we grow older, looses its precision and regulatory abillity and that the receptors which uptake individual hormones become less sensitive to them.
I searched for relevant keywords on pubmed, but dit not find any studies. Im only suggesting the common sense: Your hormones are in your body for a very good reason.
Nowadays hormones are introduced to repair socalled telomeres on the dna. You may say that this has nothing to do wiht dht supression, but its known that testosterone does play a role in aiding genetic repair and telomerase and thus, in theory, any altering of testosterone levels could also potentially affect telomerase. I obviously cant know.
As we age the secretion of many hormones declines and their effectiveness (compared unit to unit) is also reduced due to the receptors down-grading. Again, thats why growth hormone has been put forward as a potential age defiant (although clinical studies show no clear benefit in this regard). If we´re left with more testoterone circulating in your bodies, some of this will be converted into oestrogen even if it does not result in any experienced side effects. I just wonder how this affects the ageing process when you also consider that hypothalamus, as we grow older, looses its precision and regulatory abillity and that the receptors which uptake individual hormones become less sensitive to them.
I searched for relevant keywords on pubmed, but dit not find any studies. Im only suggesting the common sense: Your hormones are in your body for a very good reason.
