Andrew Huberman· PhD
Yeah, it suppresses LH in a dose-dependent manner. So the higher the dose of hCG you take, the more it suppresses LH.
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Yeah, it suppresses LH in a dose-dependent manner. So the higher the dose of hCG you take, the more it suppresses LH.
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Whereas with hCG, human chorionic gonadotropin, which does now arrive in forms not from pregnant women's urine only, but the synthetic forms that people inject, that, as I understand, it can actually suppress endogenous hormone output if one takes it for a long period of time.
hCG is synthetic luteinizing hormone. So, you give a person hcg, they will make testosterone, so it's endogenously produced, but they're making so much of it that they'll also suppress LH and FSH.