Green Tea Lowers Testosterone?

[Guest Tayler]

Green Tea lowers testosterone? My girls mom is a health nut key world on nut. Here is the story she doesn't approve of anything not natural and finds herself knowing about everything about health alternatives. She called a few nights ago to find out how we were doing and asked about the cold I caught. Found out I was drinking green tea and mentioned that may be the reason why I don't have much hair covering me... How she knew about this I don't want to even ask. Her daughter on the other hand has a girl stash/beard but very light and I later found out this runs strongly in her family. Supposedly none of them will touch green tea which will cure this and lower there natural t levels. No none of them have been tested to find out if they have higher lvl's then normal.

Anyway to the point is this true, I drink green tea at least twice a day with black tea in the morning. My father wasn't exactly hairy either neither are the men I have met in my family. Though on my mothers side they tend to be cave men or some sort. Has anyone taking T who enjoys green tea (any sort is fine.) Been told to cut back because it cuts back their T levels?

[Guest Huff]

haven't heard of green tea effecting T-levels... I have heard of the isoflavins in soy raising estrogen levels, so I've cut back on my soy milk and tofu consumption quite a bit.

MK

[Guest Quinn]

I really hope not, because green tea is my absolute favorite kind. I don't ever wanna stop drinking that stuff, haha...

I have a tiny teeny bit of peach fuzz, but you know, I've always just figured that's cause I haven't been on T at all, certainly not for a few years, so that's just how it was. Hair on my legs grows pretty quickly, though, and under my arms...but maybe that's because I'm Italian ; D No guys in my family are really that hairy, though, so...

Either way, I hope it doesn't lower it, hopefully someone else can shed some light on it.

[Guest hizmom]

Green tea combined with SPC reduced total testosterone and DHT levels (Fig. 2 A, , suggesting that interactive modulation of androgen levels is one of the important mechanisms for the synergistic prevention of prostate cancer progression by the soy/green tea combination. This study supports the use of appropriate combinations of bioactive dietary agents, such as soy and tea, as effective nutritional regimens for prostate cancer prevention and treatment.

SPC = soy phytochemicals

http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/133/2/516#SEC2

i learned in a holistic nutrition course that green tea can lower cholesterol levels

and cholesterol is necessary for the production of steroid hormones

of which testosterone is one

http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/133/2/516#SEC2

i am certainly not going to make the leap that lowering

cholesterol will lower testosterone production, but it is

an interesting angle to consider

[Guest jantonio]

I know alcohol affects T levels.

Jose Antonio...

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

I know alcohol affects T levels.

Jose Antonio...

I'm assuming alcohol lowers T? If that's the case, it is an excellent argument for me to give up drinking completely. I want to hang on to what little T I make naturally until I can get the shots.

[Guest Tayler]

Thank you everyone, I use tea to get rid of headachs to put me to sleep... calm me down and such. I didn't want to have to give up my favorite hot drink. (Can't stand the cold stuff.) Besides when I was growing up in our house it was believed that tea cured nearly everything. Colds,flu, sore throat.