31-08-2012, 07:58 AM
(31-08-2012, 07:41 AM)AbiDrew85 Wrote: Pure HHM would be where I'm working entirely on the bodies own natural internal hormone pathways to reshape them to my own purposes.
The main problem I was having with the approach was that I couldn't do anything to increase my estrogen really. Some of what I was doing was redirecting some of my T into E, but no where near enough.
Examples of HHM herbs are things like saw palmetto, licorice root, chaste berry, chinese skullcap... there're WAAAAAAAY too many to list even half of them without literally writing a book on the subject. Which would be a waste, because there're already excellent resources out there if you just know where to look and what to look for.
My main targets were the stages of reduction where a given molecule that started live as cholesterol gets reduced into various steroids. I wanted to boost the efficacy of some, while blocking others.
The method only partially works. It made me more androgynous, but that was it. Tender, puffy, nipples and areola, but no real development. Some fat redistribution, but nothing significant. Some lightening of body hair, but nothing significant.
My real goal is, of course, full transition... So I had to redesign my system to include actual progesterone and estrogen. I had toyed with weaker phytoestrogens, but none of them really worked. When I stumbled across PM, I decided to do more research on why people seem to have so much more success with it, and thus my new plan started taking shape with my discovery that PM's major phytochemical is almost identical to estradiol.
That's actually kind of coincidental on the grounds that I actually at the moment would like to go for a more androgynous appearance, but I'm guessing the male body doesn't even manage to produce nearly as much estrogen as was needed for actual development. I'm really interested on how your personal program will be designed and would like to hear more about it as you go along.
When you stopped your old HHM Plan did you have any health problems or pains? or are you still continuing as you change your program?