Both men and women convert testosterone into dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a more potent hormone due to its higher binding affinity for the Androgen Receptor (AR).

“dht has a four to five 5x affinity for the androgen receptor relative to testosterone so people consider it a much more potent male hormone and what that means is that dht when testosterone lowers more of it is going to convert into dht so that people can be protected and have the same metabolic function and anabolic function as if you had normal testosterone levels”

“testosterone now dihydrotestosterone has a much stronger higher affinity for the Androgen receptor and enables it to be it's about 10 times more potent so one molecule of DHT is the equivalent of 10 molecules of testosterone”

“To your point, DHT does so with far far greater affinity. I mean, it's on the order of two orders of magnitude, sorry, one order of magnitude more, maybe 20 times more binding um efficiency to the androgen receptor.”

“remember both men and women make testosterone men make much more of it typically on the order of 10 to 12 times more of it but both men and women will convert the testosterone they have into a more potent hormone called dihydrotestosterone and I say more potent because it has a much higher binding affinity for What's called the Androgen receptor”