Alcohol decimates DHT and T levels

[DammitLetMeIn]

Yeah, it suppresses both for 10 to 20 hours after drinking

http://www.alopezie.de/diskussion/forsc ... _sport.pdf

ANyways, I have personal experience with this. I went out on the razz and got up the next morning to have my blood taken

T came back at 3. normal = 10-30

had it retaken a month or so later and it was back up to normal again.

anyone know why or how alcohol does this to T/DHT?

 

[docj077]

Do you have your free and total testosterone levels? What you posted is simply the free amount. If both total and free testosterone levels fell, then it would be worth noting. Half of testosterone is bound to SHBG. The other half is bound to albumin. Drinking alcohol could simply release more albumin into the general circulation binding more free hormone. I'd be interested in finding the mechanism, but the likely answer is that more albumin is released into the general circulation to increase the oncotic pressure in the vessels. This pulls more fluid out of the tissues to make up for the fluid that you lose when you drink alcohol and inhibit the effects of anti-diuretic hormone.

 

[wookster]

http://www.antiaging.com/cyberhealth/CyberHealth_10.htm


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The incidence of male pattern (androgenic) baldness has been found to be the highest among college professors, and lowest among skid-row winos. Winos are also known to have the cleanest arteries in the world (which of course doesn’t save them from dying of cirrhosis of the liver). Could there be a connection? Let me remind you that alcohol is an excellent vasodilator -- there is perhaps nothing quite like alcohol for dilating those peripheral blood vessels. And vasodilatation implies nitric oxide release.





http://www.medscape.com/medline/abstrac ... 3?prt=true

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Separation and identification of phytoestrogenic compounds isolated from bourbon.

Alcohol Alcohol Suppl. 1987; 1:551-5 (ISSN: 1358-6173)
Rosenblum ER ; Van Thiel DH ; Campbell IM ; Eagon PK ; Gavaler JS
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA.



There is considerable evidence that several plant metabolites have estrogenic properties. Given that many alcoholic beverages are made from plants which have been shown to possess estrogenic activity, we considered the possibility that alcoholic beverages may contain estrogenically active substances. To evaluate this hypothesis we first extracted and then used gas chromatography/mass spectrometry to identify two phytoestrogens, biochanin A and beta-sitosterol in the bourbon extracts. Based on these findings we suggest that the feminization observed in chronic male alcoholics with liver disease may reflect, at least in part, the presence of biologically active phytoestrogens in the alcoholic beverages they consume.