DHT measuring Home Kit

[slash747]

Now I dont know what would be involved in creating something like this BUT.... People ( myself included ) use alot of anti androgens for sheer fear of loosing their hair, which alot of times is uncessary and in alot of people causes unwanted sexual side affects. Not to mention that lowering the DHT in youre body to so low is probably going to hinder youre muscle gains and fat loss.

Then we have the topicals which are great, but not all work the same for everyone. It would be nice to know which ones work the best for me!

Now I have no chemistry background and do not know how involved it would be to create something similar to a womens pregnancy test, where you can swab different areas of youre scalp and place it into a solution that will break down into a color chart the androgenicity of the different areas of youre scalp.

Again this makes sense to me but I am not a chemistry major and for all I know it might be impossible to get a correct reading from youre scalp.

 

[nydj66]

Aromatization of testosterone to estrogen is a completely different process from the 5AR enzyme conversion of testosterone to DHT. Anti estrogens will have little effect on hair loss.

 

[slash747]

No no no!!!!

Im not talking about Anti Estrogens!! Where did you get that from my post? I was referring to having some type of home test kit to test Androgen levels in the scalp LIKE women have for testing estrogen levels in their urine........

Aromatization of testosterone to estrogen is a completely different process from the 5AR enzyme conversion of testosterone to DHT. Anti estrogens will have little effect on hair loss.

 

[thx9000]

Well the pregnancy tests are just testing for a supposedly significant level of HCG. Not really estrogen or even a total amount of the HCG.

Still, I'd like to have your test available, and I also need E, T, F-T, PRL, Cortisol, SHBG, AST, GGT, ALT...

DHT would get tricky since serum DHT might not be as important to you as, say, the DHT that results from 5ar conversion right in the scalp.

 

[nydj66]

No no no!!!!

Im not talking about Anti Estrogens!! Where did you get that from my post? I was referring to having some type of home test kit to test Androgen levels in the scalp LIKE women have for testing estrogen levels in their urine........

Sorry Slash, I flaked. I read anti-androgens in your post as anti-estrogens. My mistake.

 

[Generic MALE]

They do make a kit where you test the level of DHT (est, testo, progest) at home using a saliva kit, that you send to the lab. The saliva tests only check for the free levels not total levels of the hormone

 

[slash747]

Yes but is their a direct correlation between DHT saliva levels and DHT levels on the scalp?

Also if you were using topical anti androgens the saliva test would not refelct the androgen level on youre scalp. One of the benfits of this would be to be able to test to see if a particular topical works as good for you as it did for someone else in lowering androgen levels on the scalp.

Would it be possible to test androgen levels on the scalp by maybee using a cotton swab to gather oils off of youre head? Would this be accurate?

They do make a kit where you test the level of DHT (est, testo, progest) at home using a saliva kit, that you send to the lab. The saliva tests only check for the free levels not total levels of the hormone