How does losing fat increase testosterone in the body?
In: Biology
does that mean women who lose weight also have more typically male body reaction for a while?
Okay, so testosterone is this manly hormone (all jacked up like a gym trainer) and motivates different tissues in the body like muscles to grow. Adipose tissue has a unique feature called “join the estrogen club (there’s free cookies which eould be the enzime aromatase) and so, the gym trainer testosterone gives itself a break and enters, only that cookies are soooo good he becomes estrogen now, which behaves in a more femenin way. Therefore, reducing the adipose tissue, reduces the conversion of testosterone into estrogen, increasing the amount of the first one.
There may be more than one mechanism.
The simplest mechanism involves a hormone in adipose tissue called peripheral aromatase that converts testosterone into estrogen.