I did not say shutdown, I said suppression. Regardless, it is semantics. The endogenous T production will be decreased. And this is in someone with proven AIS, far more severe than you or sade (should he have it checked). You are looking the FOOL. Keep It Up.
Yet Sade DID say shut down, and you called it trash and laughed at him:
It won't shut me down like other men because of my mutant androgen receptor. If I'm already producing around 800 ng/dl naturally then taking something like Testim will provide me with an extra 600 ng/dl and this will be added on the 800 I'm already producing so my levels will be around 1400 ng/dl on the Testim or Nebido.
You are 100% WRONG!!! Where did you hear such trash? LMAO
You were wrong! Enough said!
Unless you're going to attempt some very intricate argumentative maneuvering, I take it then that you've decided that Sade's initial comment is no longer making you laugh your ass off. That was my point here; Sade's comment was valid, and you were just being your typical moronic self.
I hope someday you learn that your refusal to admit it when you make a mistake only serves to lower the value of your contributions here in the forum.
You were wrong in the Kryptocur thread, and you are wrong now. In both places, you've tried to squirm out of it, but it would have been much easier in both places to just admit it.
In the hopes of undoing whatever confusion you may have caused by your posts, I'll restate the facts regarding androgen insensitivity:
- The mutant AR does not work as well, and thus it takes higher levels of T to get it to work effectively.
- There are three categories with progressively more insensitivity to androgens: MAIS, PAIS, and CAIS.
- In the most extreme form, CAIS, no amount of androgen will produce a response because the androgen receptor is completely ineffective. These individuals develop as women.
- Some individuals with PAIS are too insensive to androgens to be helped by exogenous T. However, there are many different kinds of PAIS, and many individuals do respond well to T. The paper discussed in this thread is one such case.
- Men with MAIS are the least insensitive to androgens. They are born phenotypically normal. There are several documented cases where T has reversed the symptoms of MAIS, subtle as these symptoms are.
- For those that still have some sensitivity to androgens (e.g. men with MAIS, and some men with PAIS), exogenous T will work together with whatever T their bodies still produce, and will thus increase overall androgenic effects. Sade is right that exogenous T will work together with whatever T his body will be producing; he will not stop producing T unless his LH drops below normal.
It's also worth mentioning that it is well known that LH stimulates the testes to produce T. That is why the guy in this paper is not shut down; in fact, his LH is still pretty high. However, any ordinary man would be completely shut down (LH = 0) if they took 250 mg / week of T. This is a direct reflection of the inefficient androgen receptor: it does not suppress in the same way that ordinary men do; it takes more T to achieve a similar suppression.
This is why I have previously stated that the only way to know how much T will be too much for Sade is by trying out various doses; the amount that will shut down a normal man will not necessarily shut down someone with MAIS. This is particularly true when LH is very elevated.