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DHEA has been promoted as kind of a catch-all for increasing testosterone and estrogen in males and females, and indeed, DHEA will increase both testosterone and estrogen, this is something to be mindful of if you're thinking about taking DHEA or you're taking DHEA already.
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if you take a very high dose of DHA a lot of them convert to estrogen not so much with testosterone because even though testosterone is a precursor to estrogen in fact the direct one testosterone itself is a moderately strong aromatase inhibitor so it kind of inhibit its own conversion pressure you may still raise it but DHA is much better than that
it's so some some studies are actually now testing DHEA supplementation for PTSD. Unfortunately in males and less so in females if you take a very high dose of DHA a lot of it will convert to estrogen. Uh not so much with testosterone because even though testosterone is a precursor to estrogen in fact a direct one testosterone itself is a moderately strong aromatase inhibitor.