ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Steroidogenesis inhibitor

Ok, so when you are born, your body knows how to make different chemicals. One of these called hormones helps your body grow and do different things like feeling happy or hungry.

Some people want to change the hormones that their body makes. They might take things called steroids to do this. But sometimes the body makes too much of some hormones. This can be a problem and cause sickness.

That's where the steroidogenesis inhibitor comes in. It's like a medicine that stops your body from making too much of certain hormones. It does this by blocking a chemical reaction in your body that makes these hormones.

It's kind of like when you build with blocks and you have a block that fits perfectly into another block. If you take that block away, the whole thing falls apart. The steroidogenesis inhibitor takes away that one block that is needed to make too much of a certain hormone and makes your body work the way it should.

So, the steroidogenesis inhibitor is like a superhero that helps your body be healthy by making sure it doesn't make too much of certain hormones.
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