Quote from: j612 on December 11, 2014, 10:16:57 AM
I'm not really sure what it means exactly but i am on the gel and the endo told me that it turns to "free testosterone" if applied to the genitals. also it would probably hurt like a mothertrucker but thats a given!
Endo's correct. Most of our 5-Alpha Reductase (Testosterone > 5a > 5a-Dihydrotestosterone) receptors are in the genitals and also in hair follicles {DHT is 100% responsible for androgenic hair activation and continued development; not T}, lesser found in the adrenals and other body tissues.
However, it will not be a huge conversion. There's a limit. Only about 6-10% of your overall free-T volume gets converted to 5a-DHT. Or, that is to say, not a hell of a lot. That's why androgenic hair takes so damn long to populate. It is a very limited resource, there is never enough to fully go around to all of the hair follicles at the same time, let alone everywhere else also. But by applying it directly to the desired areas, you kind of get to target-treat where you'd most like it to "lock on" at.
It's obviously impossible to prove it beyond the aforesaid, but I have in fact benefited from applying my T dregs directly to my beard-zone and my 'fun zone' (IM T doesn't burn). And by dregs, I mean exactly that, the dregs - the drop or two left. Never apply more than a little or you'll really screw up your dosage and that's never good. The oil gets absorbed, and therefore also, the T. It works.
Injecting oil-based anything down there is a one-way ticket to thrombosis-vill. Topical application, or be very sorry indeed.
