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Red reishi and green tea reduce 5-alpha-reducatase thereby reducing DHT. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693613/table/tbl2680/?report=objectonly

Pygeum, saw palmetto, and nettle should be looked at to see if they reduce DHT. Verification is needed.

Daidzien is a phytochemical that is said to be estrogenic. but I believe it may act like DHT. A herb or phytochemical that increases body hair is suspect. A herb may also be estrogenic, but what if it upregulates a receptor that helps create DHT.

I had this in a draft in another thread, however I will list it here too.

Soy isoflavones have also been shown in several studies to elevate SHBG levels and to be mildly anti-estrogenic. High serum-High serum levels of estrogen also trick the brain into thinking that enough testosterone is being produced, further slowing its natural production. This happens when estrogen saturates testosterone receptors in the hypothalamus region of the brain. The saturated hypothalamus then stops sending out a hormone to the pituitary gland to stimulate secretion of luteinizing hormone that the gonads require to produce testosterone. High estrogen can thus shut down the normal testicular production of testosterone. A further complication of excess estrogen is that it increases the body's production of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG). SHBG binds free testosterone in the blood and makes it unavailable to cell receptor sites. The solution to this problem is to block the conversion of testosterone to estrogen.


By modulating androgen receptor coactivators, daidzein may act as a phytoandrogen
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pros.20470/abstract;jsessionid=CB374D9A89B74EE19CA275F4FA69E7BF.f04t01