Would this work...

[T-Rage]

This is an excerpt from www.hormone.org a medical site addressing hormonal disorders.

Testosterone Production
The body carefully controls the production of testosterone. Chemical signals from two glands in the brain – the pituitary and hypothalamus – tell the testes how much testosterone to produce.

The hypothalamus controls hormone production in the pituitary gland by means of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). This hormone tells the pituitary gland to make follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH). LH orders the testes to produce testosterone. If the testes begin producing too much testosterone, the brain sends signals to the pituitary to make less LH. This, in turn, slows the production of testosterone. If the testes begin producing too little testosterone, the brain sends signals to the pituitary gland telling it to make more LH, which causes the testes to make more testosterone.

Ok. My question is this. If LH is the hormone that tells the testes to produce more or less testesterone why can't we just take some form of LH and let our body overproduce our own testosterone?

 

[Big Johnson]

Huck should be able to answer this one, but I can't.

 

[T-Rage]

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[Big Johnson]

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[Big Johnson]

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[Big Johnson]

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[Big Johnson]

Here we go http://infertility.miningco.com/library/ifctr/blhfsh.htm

 

[dbag333]

cause LH is part of a feed back loop like test

hypothalamus produces GnRH__
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Pituitary produces LH/FSH_____||
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Testes producing test _______||

At each level each hormone and releasing hormone is part of the same geedback loop. Your body will recognize too much GnRh and FSH/LH just like when one introduces test.

I had this same question and this was the answer I got from two of my professors. An excess of any hormone at any level will berecognised by the body, thus it will start to produce less.

how much is too much is genetically predtermined.

Correct me if I am wrong.

 

[Big Johnson]

Sounds good to me. So, I guess the moral here is that your body can only produce so much test, no matter how much FSH you throw at it.

Duh...why didn't I think of that?

 

[Andy13]

Well dude, before anyone could even begin to think about (hypothetical) physiological effects of exergeneous LH, you have a whale of a practicality hurdle to clear..

Unfortunetly, not all signal compounds are simple chemical structures such as AAS, for which practical total synthesis routes have been paved.

LH, a protein, will never be synthesized in cell-free systems (such as flasks) like pharmaceutical-type drugs as AAS. Without going into too much detail, proteins (like hGH) are made using something called 'recombinant DNA technology,' where the DNA blueprint for the protein is shoved into yeast or bacteria cells to let them do the dirty work of making the proteins just before they are sacroficed and the protein harvested..

This process of producing a desired product (LH in this scinario) is far more pricey that a simple drug-like compound (AAS) that can be made by a chemist.

So that's why GH is so expensive... But LH would be several fold more expensive than GH because it is far less in demand..

Andy