The Effects of Hormones on Muscle Growth

Women do have Significantly less testosterone than men and testosterone is very anabolic So how can you sort of square that circle like how is it that women are still able to build as much muscle as men in spite of having way way less testosterone Yeah, that's a good question. The difference is major. It's 10 to 20 times and research depending on which phase of the menstrual cycle you're looking at and stuff. Women have more growth factors They have about the same level of IGF one and they have about three times as much growth hormone as men. And it seems that these growth factors sort of take over the anabolic role of the enrogens to some extent plus Women have a lot more