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Some intriguing findings here illustrating how muscles can make their own steroids from DHEA, secondary to an exercise stimulus..

These are several of the studies on this subject if you'd like to learn more..

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21502890
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20045012
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17975125
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17018772

What this means is someone may still be able to build substantial muscle in response to exercise, due to the muscle’s ability to utilize the circulating DHEA pool.

Bear in mind that DHEA manufacture in the body is tightly regulated by entirely different mechanisms than testosterone production. This may explain why I was still gaining (albeit slowly) when my test levels were a paltry 152!!

The body is an amazing machine, with so many backup systems it boggles the mind. I believe we're looking at one right here. In fact, even hypogonadal men were found to have high DHEA levels in some instances. Also makes a good case for the muscle building power of Adaptogen N/MASS's DHEA standalone...

Coach Rob wrote:...What this means is someone may still be able to build substantial muscle in response to exercise, due to the muscle’s ability to utilize the circulating DHEA pool.

...The body is an amazing machine, with so many backup systems it boggles the mind. I believe we're looking at one right here. In fact, even hypogonadal men were found to have high DHEA levels in some instances. Also makes a good case for the muscle building power of Adaptogen N/MASS's DHEA standalone...

Very interesting, indeed.

Can't say I'm shocked.

It seems a lot of athletes have low T. Like you said, the DHEA could be contributing to the continual development of muscle.

cogrick2 wrote:It seems a lot of athletes have low T. Like you said, the DHEA could be contributing to the continual development of muscle.

Something was doing it in my case, absolutely...