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Originally posted by Sir Kenyth:
I have conflicting information then. The cholesterol cannot be destroyed, but the sex horomones built on cholesterol surely can. I recall an experiment where a rat liver sucessfully processed many times the natural amount of testosterone found in the male human body and was not stressed. The human liver should be able to handle any anabolic horomones found in our diet without breaking a sweat. I'm not as sure about stress horomones, such as cortisol. Dealing with dietary horomones would have to be built into any carniverous or omniverous animals digestive system. If horomones can pass the digestive tract, then why can't steroid treatments be taken orally without being chemically modified to survive the digestive system?
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I answered your PM and hopefully the link in that will work. The reason for your lack of success in the search area is that it's called
hormones not horomones. Steroid treatments are not modified for passing through the digestive tract per se. What you want is a drug that does not effect the body until it has found it's target. Therefore you can add a chemical bond that isn't broken until it has entered the blood and has encountered a certain enzyme. Very cool. Chemical modification is also used to relieve the body from side effects such as ulcers etc. Just because a drug is chemically modified doesn't mean it can't pass the digestive tract.
