Gurus: D-BOL and DHT

[Silent Method]

From what I've been able to gather, d-bol converts to DHT at a rather rapid rate. (I have not been able to track down any hard data indicating the rate) My question is this: Does anyone know how this conversion takes place?

 

[Mike P.T.]

Im pretty sure through the 5-alpha reductase enzyme.

 

[Silent Method]

Maybe. I thought something somewhere said that it's not through 5AR.

Just read this (for the 100th time) regarding d-bol: "a simple application of only 10 mg results in a 5-fold increase in the average testosterone concentration in the male." Is this the most important part of how d-bol works? Especially if this is so, it would seem that the 5AR pathway to explain the d-bol to DHT process may hold true.

 

[Silent Method]

One more bump for the night...

 

[xmoulton508x]

If the test levels are increased 5x ....technically it would directly affect DHT levels since 4% of testosterone is converted to DHT. But then I don't know off hand if that convertion rate would stay proportional with such highly elevated test levels.

 

[Silent Method]

I follow you. Still wondering if d-bol converts to DHT (or maybe raises DHT by a peripheral mechanism) in some other way besides increasing the amount of test available to convert to DHT.

 

[xmoulton508x]

I don't see how it could convert directly to DHT without first converting to test since it's a direct metabolite of test....here's some info on test DHT conversion.

The plasma content of DHT is one tenth that of testosterone, approximately 400 ug produced daily compared to 5 grams of test. The reaction is catabolized by the NADPH-dependent 5 alpha reductase enzymes. There are two types of the 5AR enzyme.... type I found in the liver.... type II found in reproductive tissue and other specific tissues.

I still don't know if this answered the question though...bump for more opinions

 

[Silent Method]

bump