The 10 Commandments of Natural High DHT
UM's Natty DHT Maxxing Protocol
May 2023. SWIM pulls bloodwork that would make a modern endocrinologist question reality:
Total Testosterone: 904 ng/dL
Free Testosterone: 183.6 pg/mL (HIGH)
DHT: 152 ng/dL (HIGH)
T:DHT Ratio: 5.9:1
The kind of numbers that make doctors ask “what are you taking?” because they don’t believe natural protocols can achieve this. Sad! Labs like these were standard in the 80s.
“Plasma concentrations of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone in normal adults” by Vermeulen, A., Verdonck, L., and Van der Straeten, M. (1982), published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
The funny part? SWIM’s lifestyle was trash. Suboptimal sleep. Diet wasn’t dialed. Taking kratom (suppresses DHT). Yet his 5α-reductase expression was optimized because his life demanded it was.
Outside of rare genetic polymorphisms and extreme environmental factors, your hormones are a reflection of you.
Compare that to his past: DHT around 40 ng/dL, testosterone around 600 ng/dL, and a pitiful 15:1 Test:DHT ratio. Suppressed 5α-reductase. Clinical Guevedoce. Estrogenic phenotype despite “normal” testosterone. Perfectly matching the sedentary, isolated, non-competitive life he was living.
The lesson is brutal and beautiful: Your T:DHT ratio tells your life story better than you can. It reveals whether you’re training with intensity or going through the motions, whether you’re competing or spectating, whether you’re disciplined or compulsive, whether you’re winning or losing.
Your body allocates DHT production based on the signals you send. Act like a winner, and your endocrinology will reflect it. Act like a victim, and it will reflect that too
Why DHT Is Everything The Medical Establishment Won’t Tell You
Dihydrotestosterone is the most potent endogenous androgen your body produces. It’s 2-3 times more androgenic than testosterone, binding the androgen receptor with dramatically higher affinity and refusing to aromatize into estrogen. DHT drives masculine dimorphism, maintains sexual function, regulates body composition, influences cognition and dominance behaviors.
But here’s what the pharmaceutical approach gets catastrophically wrong: your body doesn’t produce hormones in isolation. It produces them in response to environmental signals, within specific tissues, through feed-forward loops that amplify adaptive responses.
The natty approach works differently. It doesn’t override your endocrine system. It optimizes the signals your body interprets as success, triggering endogenous DHT production through the exact pathways evolution designed. Your body increases local DHT synthesis in skeletal muscle during strength training, in the brain during competition, in reproductive tissues during sexual activity, precisely where and when you need it.
Everything is connected. This guide will teach you how to manipulate the biochemical switches controlling DHT synthesis.