DIM can help reduce DHT effects as well as Estrogen!

[Mane Man]

Just seen some of these studies about DIM. What they seem to indicate is that DIM can reduce the binding of DHT to its androgen receptor sites. I wonder if ingesting or applying DIM topically would benifit hairloss?

Plant-derived 3,3'-Diindolylmethane Is a Strong Androgen Antagonist in Human Prostate Cancer Cells*

3,3'-Diindolylmethane (DIM) is a major digestive product of indole-3-carbinol, a potential anticancer component of cruciferous vegetables. Our results indicate that DIM exhibits potent antiproliferative and antiandrogenic properties in androgen-dependent human prostate cancer cells. DIM suppresses cell proliferation of LNCaP cells and inhibits dihydrotestosterone (DHT) stimulation of DNA synthesis. These activities were not produced in androgen-independent PC-3 cells. Moreover, DIM inhibited endogenous PSA transcription and reduced intracellular and secreted PSA protein levels induced by DHT in LNCaP cells.................Results of receptor binding assays indicated further that DIM is a strong competitive inhibitor of DHT binding to the AR. Results of structural modeling studies showed that DIM is remarkably similar in conformational geometry and surface charge distribution to an established synthetic AR antagonist. Taken together with our published reports of the estrogen agonist activities of DIM, the present results establish DIM as a unique bifunctional hormone disrupter. To our knowledge, DIM is the first example of a pure androgen receptor antagonist from plants

Some of the studies -

http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/278/23/21136
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/c ... 6/20/10064
http://carcin.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/co ... 26/11/1896