Why doesn't someone do a test with a NON aromatizing steroid, add some estrogen (birth control pills?) to the mix, and campare group results between the with and without columns. Then we'll know if estrogen is really a bulking aid.
Secondly, why is it that women can take oral hormones, birth control, and they don't need to be 17AA? Why is there a bias to deactivate the male hormones in the liver and not the female?