Peter Attia· MD
the first is five Alpha reductase which is the same enzyme we talked about back when we were going over cortisol it's siphoning off some of that testosterone to make dihydrotestosterone now not huge amounts sort of you know a couple of percent but dihydrotestosterone is a very important sex hormone in fact it has anywhere from two to ten some studies would suggest even higher uh potency 2 to 10 x potency for the Androgen receptor than testosterone