It's quite funny that this makes sense and Peats work was the one that debunked the DHT causes baldness "theory" which is the same proposed mechanism, just reversed.More likely in my opinion is that VA ends up in flow charts like this because of experimental findings that the presence of retinoids increases the production of various compensatory substances like Pregnenolone via the inflammatory damage they cause, and people who are working from the assumption that it's an essential vitamin just assume this means it is getting "used up