Imnotdutch
butler monkey
Mavy said:Check the main anabolic board. GoldenDelicious posted that you should never heat hormones.
"hormones are proteins which are folded in a very delicate way
heat them up and they unfold and cant refold into their original configuration (they become denatured)
if they arent the same shape, they cant bind to the receptor, and are, for all intents and purposes, destroyed"
Is this old argument still being rehashed??
Just to reiterate, hormones can not be denatured. You are talking about proteins.....a whole different ball game!!
Another mistake that people often make is to assume that if you go above the melting temperature of a hormone then it is destroyed. This is wrong. Melting temp. refers tot he temperature that the crystals melt at.......mot the point that individual molecules breakdown.
Naturally there is an upper limit that is specific to specific molecule sbut this is a lot higher than most people realise. T-Bone refers to 350-400.........most hormones are safe up til this temperature.