small study finds marjoram daily intake reduced DHEA and insulin and improved insulin sensitivity (when compared to placebo group) in women with PCOS. This study too is ahead of print and only abstract is available.
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from 1970 still disrupting hormones today. Three fold increase in DHEA in 3 year old children via saliva and androstenedione in mothers compared to controls.
Breast cancer associated with high levels of estrone, estradiol, testosterone, and less with androstenedione and DHEAS. Those individuals being doped by physicians (a whole lot) are increasing their risk of many health diseases, including breast cancer.
high estrogen to Testosterone levels in synovial fluid in those with RA. The authors here propose that DHEA can stimulate inflammation through aromatase activity.
cross sectional study finds low vitamin D associated with a decrease in SHBG and an increase in free Testosterone; a decrease in estradiol and an increase in DHEA was seen in women. No association with total Testosterone was found. There are studies that show a direct decrease in testicular Testosterone production in men with low vitamin D and decrease in AR function.
I find this study a good example of the distortion in medical science. This study looked at lifestyle changes as its effect on hormones and glucose regulation. This study found a decrease in estrogen, decrease in DHEA, and an increase in SHBG. However, they included metformin therapy in the lifestyle arm of the study. What about metformin is "lifestyle"?
serum Testosterone levels increasing in the normal range were found to be associated with a reduced risk of Crohn's disease in women. No such relationship was found with ulcerative colitis, with DHEA, or with SHBG.
statin therapy worsens insulin sensitivity in women with PCOS. Statin therapy in this study did lower CRP, LDL and triglycerides. Of note, DHEA decreased. This should be no surprise as statins are HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors which reduces hormone synthesis from cholesterol.
non-SHBG bound serum estradiol, testosterone and DHEA reveal increase breast cancer risk; other studies show saliva testing equal to serum non-bound SHBG hormones
skeletal muscle cell cultures incubated with DHEA produced testosterone in a DHEA dose-dependent manner
Muscle joins a growing list of tissues found to be capable of steroidogenesis
testosterone appears to have a role in the maintenance of muscle mass in women, although the importance of this role has not yet been fully established.
Circulating testosterone concentrations are generally elevated following a bout of resistance exercise in men (24, 31, 46, 52), whereas findings for the effect of resistance exercise on circulating testosterone in women are equivocal, with increases (10, 42) and no changes observed (22, 31)
swimming (51) and treadmill running (2) can significantly increase muscle testosterone concentrations in male and female rats
This upregulation of muscle testosterone in rats appears, at least in part, to be due to an increase in 3β-HSD and 17β-HSD type 1 expression
The primary finding in this study was that muscle steroidogenesis (i.e., testosterone production) in highly resistance-trained humans was not affected by an acute bout of heavy resistance exercise
A secondary finding was that the apparent molecular mass of 17β-HSD type 3 was increased following a single bout of heavy resistance exercise.
No differences were found for muscle testosterone or steroidogenic enzyme (17β-HSD type 3 and 3β-HSD types 1 and 2) concentrations between sexes or in response to resistance exercise
In conclusion, heavy resistance exercise did not induce changes in muscle steroidogenesis as measured by muscle concentrations of testosterone, 3β-HSD types 1 and 2, and 17β-HSD type 3 in highly resistance-trained young men and women.
Resistance exercise did not increase muscle concentrations of Testosterone in men or women. The individuals in this study were actively training. These were not sedentary individuals.
The levels of LH in the ibuprofen group had increased by 23% after 14 d of administration
This increase was even more pronounced at 44 d, at 33%
We found an 18% decrease (P = 0.056) in the ibuprofen group compared with the placebo group after 14 d (Fig. 1A) and a 23% decrease (P = 0.02) after 44 d (Fig. 1C). Taken together, these in vivo data suggest that ibuprofen induced a state of compensated hypogonadism during the trial,
which occurred as early as 14 d and was maintained until the end of the trial at 44 d
We first investigated testosterone production after 24 and 48 h of ibuprofen
exposure to assess its effects on Leydig cell steroidogenesis. Inhibition of testosterone levels was significant and dose-dependent
(β = −0.405, P = 0.01 at 24 h and β = −0.664, P < 0.0001 at 48 h) (Fig. 2A) and was augmented over time
The AMH data show that the hypogonadism affected not only Leydig cells but also Sertoli cells and also occurred as early
as 14 d of administration
Sertoli cell activity showed that AMH levels decreased significantly with ibuprofen
administration, by 9% (P = 0.02) after 14 d (Fig. 1B) and by 7% (P = 0.05) after 44 d compared with the placebo group
Examination of the effect of ibuprofen exposure on both the ∆4 and ∆5 steroid pathways (Fig. 2B) showed that it generally inhibited all steroids from pregnenolone down to testosterone and 17β-estradiol; the production
of each steroid measured decreased at doses of 10−5–10−4 M. Under control conditions, production of androstenediol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) was below the limit of detection
except in one experiment with DHEA
Measuring the mRNA expression of genes involved in steroidogenesis in vitro showed that ibuprofen had a profound inhibitory
effect on the expression of these genes (Fig. 3 B–D), consistent with that seen above in our ex vivo organ model. Taken together, these data examining effects on the endocrine
cells confirm that ibuprofen-induced changes in the transcriptional machinery were the likely reason for the inhibition of
steroidogenesis.
Suppression of gene expression concerned the initial conversion of cholesterol to the final testosterone synthesis. Hence,
expression of genes involved in cholesterol transport to the Leydig cell mitochondria was impaired
A previous study reported
androsterone levels decreased by 63% among men receiving 400 mg of ibuprofen every 6 h for 4 wk
We next examined the gene expression involved in testicular steroidogenesis ex vivo and found that levels of expression of
every gene that we studied except CYP19A1 decreased after exposure for 48 h compared with controls
the changes in gene expression indicate that the transcriptional machinery behind the endocrine action
of Leydig cells was most likely impaired by ibuprofen exposure.
Together, these data show that ibuprofen also directly impairs Sertoli cell function ex vivo by inhibiting transcription
ibuprofen use in men led to (i) elevation of LH; (ii) a decreased testosterone/LH ratio and, to a lesser degree, a decreased inhibin B/FSH ratio; and (iii) a reduction in the levels of the Sertoli cell hormone AMH
The decrease in the free testosterone/LH ratio resulted primarily
from the increased LH levels, revealing that testicular responsiveness to gonadotropins likely declined during the ibuprofen
exposure. Our data from the ex vivo experiments support this notion, indicating that the observed elevation in LH resulted
from ibuprofen’s direct antiandrogenic action
AMH levels were consistently suppressed by ibuprofen both in vivo and ex vivo, indicating that this hormone is uncoupled from
gonadotropins in adult men. The ibuprofen suppression of AMH further demonstrated that the analgesic targeted not only the
Leydig cells but also the Sertoli cells, a feature encountered not only in the human adult testis but also in the fetal testis
a chemical compound, through its effects on the signaling
compounds, can result in changes in the testis at gene level, resulting in perturbations at higher physiological levels in
the adult human
The analgesics acetaminophen/paracetamol and ibuprofen have previously been shown to inhibit the postexercise
response in muscles by repressing transcription
Previous ex vivo studies on adult testis have indeed pointed to an antiandrogenicity, only on Leydig cells, of phthalates
(41), aspirin, indomethacin (42), and bisphenol A (BPA) and its analogs
ibuprofen’s effects were not restricted to Leydig and Sertoli cells, as data showed that the expression of genes
in peritubular cells was also affected
short-term
exposure
In the clinical setting, compromised Leydig cell function resulting in increased insensitivity to LH is defined as compensated
hypogonadism (4), an entity associated with all-cause mortality
compensated hypogonadic men present with an increased likelihood of reproductive, cognitive, and physical symptoms
an inverse relationship was recently reported between endurance exercise training and male sexual libido
AMH concentrations are lower in seminal plasma from patients with azoospermia than
from men with normal sperm levels
inhibin B is a key clinical marker of reproductive health (32). The function of AMH, also secreted by Sertoli cells, and its regulation through FSH remain unclear in men
the striking dual effect of ibuprofen observed here on both Leydig and Sertoli cells makes this NSAID the chemical
compound, of all the chemical classes considered, with the broadest endocrine-disturbing properties identified so far in men.
after administration of 600 mg of ibuprofen to healthy
volunteers