24-05-2012, 09:22 AM
(24-05-2012, 06:52 AM)Pansy-Mae Wrote: Hi Karen,
Funnily enough, I've been thinking along very similar lines recently, trying to get my head around the dichotomy of us apparently in constant danger of activating the feedback loop and stalling, and TS's on HRT who take massively more synthetic estrogens than we do phyto-estrogens and ASFAIK, just grow!!
Hi Pansy-Mae,
I think the hard part is going to be how to supply all of your own. It's REAL EASY for me. With "prescribed" Testosterone I can add what ever amount of pure testoterone to my system that I want. I have a scale that measures in "grains" ... I can measure out any amount that I want plus I have enough historical blood tests to know how much puts me at what levels (Total T, Free T, Estradiol, DHT, LH and Progesterone) If you take enough herbs to hit that "level", lowering LH and your body stops producing Testosterone, the need for a DHT Blocker goes away cause there's nothing to convert. And if you can then get enough phtyo-estrogens plus whatever else you might need (I'll defer to Isabelle on that one) AND as long as you're not taking anything at such a high level that it could do harm, then it seems feasible.
I DO THINK it's a balancing act AND IMHO I wouldn't just rely on "symptoms" to monitor what's going on in my body. There's lots of balancing acts going on that can effect the Thyroid and Adrenals not to forget the liver ... things that you don't want to screw up just to grow boobies .... you don't get to enjoy them if you kill yourself growing them BUT "HEY" that's only my opinion.
Karen