Posted by Elroy on February 27, 2005, at 18:43:41
In reply to Re: Selegiline here's the DMSO site, posted by world citizen on February 25, 2005, at 23:40:18
Yes, have heard of it and tried it. Did nothing for me. The extremely elevated cortisol basically shut down the sex hormone production and required a full-fledged testosterone replacement therapy. The TRT uses AndroGel where a bioidentical form of testosterone is used. It becomes an expensive pharmaceutical substance NOT becuse of the testosterone... since it's bio-identical, the Pharma cannot patent the testosterone so it has to devise and patent the DELIVERY mechanism... and then charge the consumer an ungodly amount of money. With my insurance coverage and buying 90-day lots in advance, it ends up costing (co-pay) me less than what the comparable amount of tribulus would - and in my circumstances, the tribulus wouldn't work anyway!
P.S. Have also read some recent stuff that DHEA (incl 7-KETO version) doesn't really reduce elevated cortisol levels, but that it simply increases DHEA levels which modifies the DHEA/cortisol ratio os as to make cortisol levels seem lesser only in comparison to DHEA levels. Not a bad thing, in fact is a good thing, but not what I need right now. My DHEA levels aren't in the top 20% but they aren't low either. I have a bigger concern to get the cortisol levels down - permanently - into normal ranges....
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