Does supplementing with DHEA suppress natural protuction?

[aurelian87]

If a take it for like 3 months 200 mg daily will it have any negative effect on my own production?

 

[Americanada]

There's no definitive answer from what I'm reading so here's a little copy and paste.
Transdermally applied DHEA converts to testosterone at a reasonably high rate, enough to possibly illicit shutdown.

-High bioavailability of dehydroepiandrosterone administered percutaneously in the rat C Labrie, M Flamand, A Belanger, et al. Endocrinol., Sep 1996; 150: S107 - S118.

Oral administration of DHEA is interesting in that in readily converts to estradiol at quite a high rate. High amounts of oral DHEA could potentially be a problem.

High estradiol can and will illicit low testosterone, via the HTPA feedback loop(high E tricking the brain that enough T is present)

It can also suppress IGF-1 levels as well.

 

[Americanada]

There's no definitive answer from what I'm reading so here's a little copy and paste.
Transdermally applied DHEA converts to testosterone at a reasonably high rate, enough to possibly illicit shutdown.

-High bioavailability of dehydroepiandrosterone administered percutaneously in the rat C Labrie, M Flamand, A Belanger, et al. Endocrinol., Sep 1996; 150: S107 - S118.

Oral administration of DHEA is interesting in that in readily converts to estradiol at quite a high rate. High amounts of oral DHEA could potentially be a problem.

High estradiol can and will illicit low testosterone, via the HTPA feedback loop(high E tricking the brain that enough T is present)

It can also suppress IGF-1 levels as well.

So what I'm getting from it is that it isn't 100% certain but there is a good chance it may somewhat suppress natural test, if only a little bit

 

[mudbutt22]

It will have no effect- on anything. It won't do you any good or bad (other than waste money). The oral bioavailability of Dhea is basically 0.