Dr. Kyle Gillett

So DHT helps a lot for the same reason why testosterone helps.

It helps effort feel good.

So it can be motivating.

There's lots of dietary changes and supplementation that you're probably doing right now that's affecting your DHT.

You mean me personally?

Well, everybody, all of the listeners.

Because let's say you have a diet high in plant polyphenols.

Many of those inhibit the enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT.

Yeah, turmeric, black pepper extract.

Do you recommend that people avoid curcumin and turmeric for that reason?

If someone's DHT is already low or if they have somewhat insensitive androgen receptor,

via genetics or via lifestyle, then I recommend they avoid bioavailable curcuminoids like bioavailable turmeric, black pepper extract.

You want some sort of strategy to decrease the activity of that androgen receptor.

There's a lot of different things that you can do that are topical.

The most promising is called dutasteride mesotherapy.

Essentially what it is is it's very localized injections in areas that are prone to male pattern baldness, whether they're female or male, and it acts locally only.

and you repeat these injections from time to time, it decreases the conversion of testosterone to DHT just in the scalp.

Yeah.

So PCOS is polycystic ovarian syndrome.

And this is one of those conditions which is