Is Chaga a 5AR inhibitor?

Comment · Fri, March 20, 2020 · 3 pts

I don't see any evidence it is. Chaga is a bit unique as a mushroom, as it only grows on birch trees into a sclerotia. You have to harvest it in a couple month period as the temperature starts dropping, and the birch tre

Comment · Fri, March 20, 2020 · 6 pts

Wait, where is the evidence that bacopa has 5 alpha reductase activity? Bacopa's effect on motivation is likely due to an up-regulation of tryptophan hydroxylase, which increases the production of 5-HTP, which competes w

Comment · Sat, March 21, 2020 · 2 pts

Have you gone to the doctor to get a hormone test to see if that is what is going on, or if it might be another mechanism?

Comment · Sat, March 21, 2020 · 3 pts

I would love to see some blood work done after a couple months of baseline, then some more blood work after a couple weeks of the mushrooms. Then we could see if it truly is lowering your levels, or if this is an underly

Comment · Tue, March 24, 2020 · 1 pts

> MYASD, I think it's time ND starts offering a sorghum extract product, and possibly l carnitine l tartrate(to upregulate AR). Sorghum extract is probably the most potent 5ar inducer ive ever used. Can give some of thes

Comment · Wed, March 25, 2020 · 1 pts

I am confused. That is saying it is inhibiting 5-AR. That's what the mushrooms are doing, too. How would it counteract the 5-AR inhibiting effects of the mushrooms by doing the same thing?

Comment · Thu, March 26, 2020 · 3 pts

Interesting! I wonder why that shows an opposite result to the study I posted? I suppose the study I posted was an ethyl acetate extract of sorghum. The study you posted seems to be a supercritical CO2 extract and a crud