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I refuse to copy/paste ChatGPT but it breaks it down well enough to help you target specific slices of the statement to google yourself and do your own analysis of the accuracy of the claims.

This shouldn’t come across as “lmgtfy” and also nothing ChatGPT says can be taken as fact, but I do think it provided some helpful restructuring of the original.

I think its probably (mildly) overly pessimistic about some less-supported claims, and it may be worth reviewing the latest work on those claims first.

I personally feel that pregnenolone supplementation had a noticeably negative affect on my mental health. High prolactin would also be somewhat miserable but it makes slightly more sense that it could be better for alzheimer incidence rate. Drugs to lower prolactin, like cabergoline, have profound effects on the brain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33186046

ChatGPT log can be viewed here: https://chat.openai.com/share/e79afa6f-ee58-42a9-99c1-bd3a1a...

Wow. When someone is so well versed in a topic that everyone else has to use the world's most popular and advanced artificial intelligence to understand what they have just said. Bravo.

I mean, I understood most of it from just hobbyist-level interest in anabolic steroids. Many of those (testosterone, nandrolone, masteron, trenbolone, trestolone) also interact with prolactin and there’s occasional discussion about pregnenolone as well.

So I was able to validate at a surface level that ChatGPT at least didn't completely mangle the meaning, intention, and facts.

But the truth is that the GP shouldnt be viewed as being “so well versed in the topic”. Most of these hormones (even pregnenolone) havent been studied well enough to understand the full effects of manipulating them in otherwise “healthy-ish” people. We know their most powerful effects in niche, extreme situations - so if someone has a true medical issue/emergency related to them we know to raise/lower them to get certain desired effects.

But we really don’t know the vast majority of the effects that subtle changes in these hormones might have. Supplementing pregnenolone seems to cause temporary depression in many of the folks I’ve talked with in the bodybuilding community - myself included (until supplementation is ceased). For me that effect greatly outweighs its potential contribution to Alzheimer’s later in life.

Haha I tossed together that sentance before running to a meeting. I simply know the topic to such detail and intimately that I didn't think to make it simpler. If I had known it was going to be tossed at ChatGPT I would have fleshed it out more. The key thing that ChatGPT missed in its summary was that the entire PVN is often downregulated in Alzheimer's. This is where you get all of the other comorbidities that don't make sense and are red herrings such as thyroid issues and leads to a direct pathway to the reduction of myelin sheaths which is a crucial requirement before dementia.

Once you see the pathway you can't unsee it.

What is PVN?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraventricular_nucleus_of_hyp...

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