> Right, but it's not the serum levels that matter: it's the agonistic effect on various receptors. (Most) hormones don't have direct chemical effects on the body. According to Wikipedia:

>> Relative to testosterone, DHT is considerably more potent as an agonist of the androgen receptor (AR).

Judging from this and your other comments in the thread, I'm assuming you're not an endocrinologist.

You're pulling quotes from tertiary sources that at first glance seem to support the argument you're making, but you're missing the broader context, which is that pharmacokinetics and our endocrine systems are way more complicated than you're giving them credit for. It's not as simple as "drug A makes X go down, and X does Y, so A decreases Y".

It would make a lot of people's jobs much easier if that were the case, but the clinical reality is actually much more complicated.