aanallein said:Ok here let me do a synopsis on the production of testosterone:
1. Hypothalamus releases a substance to the Pituitary Gland called Gonadotropin Releasing hormone (GnRH).
2. GnRH causes the pituitary to produce Follicle- Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH), which are Gonadotropins.
3. LH travels to the Testes where it triggers the production of Testosterone from Cholesterol.
4. Cholesterol is converted to Pregnenolon via Cholesterol Side Cleavage Enzyme.
5. Pregnenolone is coverted through a series of compounds including Progesterone, Deoxycorticosterone, Corticosterone, Aldosterone, Cortisol, Dehydroepiandrosterone, Androstanediol, and others.
6. Eventually this process creates Testosterone.
7. If too much Testosterone is produced the pituitary slows release of LH via a reduction in GnRH from the Hypothalamus in a reverse feedback mechanism.
Every product on the market that claims to boost testosterone does it by tinkering with this chain of events. Why was Andro such a popular pro-hormone? Because its the immediate precursor to Test in the body so it had a huge effect on Test levels.
The problem with tinkering with any step in this process is that there are reverse feedback mechanisms in place to keep things balanced. If you increase LH levels via some random herb, the body will know it and subsequently, lower the release of GnRH to keep things in balance.
I don't care WHAT the product claims it is. "Test Booster" is an artificial term created by these companies to distract you from the fact that anything that boosts your testosterone level does so via some step in this chain and the body has reverse feedback loops in place at every step to control production of testosterone.
The best way to increase Testosterone is to increase the body's demand for testosterone via heavy exercise. If you put your body in a state where it needs the hormone, you won't activate feedback mechanisms that will lead to a slowdown or shutdown of production.
There simply isn't a way to "boost" test levels without doing so somewhere along the chain of events I illustrated. Its not biologically possible. So maybe the definition of prohormone stops at the cholesterol cleaving enzyme and everything beyond that is by definition a testosterone 'booster' but seriously - same fucking difference man. As each step in the process is regulated by a reverse feedback mechanism, you can be sure that boosting LH levels will have the same net effect as taking Andro would ultimately - a slow down in your body's natural production of test without the compound.
from what I have read diesel test hardcore *attempts* to work via the LH pathway. I would also like to say that I think that any effect this product may or may not have *might* be directly related to if the person taking the product is naturally low or normal or high in testosterone. In other words, part of my experiment in using this product is will it cause a different reaction in myself, who is naturally low than in a person, perhaps as yourself, who is basically normal. This is, afterall, as I tried to explain from the get go, an experiment by myself to see if this product can help me. If it cannot, then I feel I need to go to the testosterone replacement route. However I felt it was a good thing to try since *IF* it did help me it was much more benign than using testosterone replacement.