13-10-2011, 06:32
Hi Princess,
Flax, if taken for long periods (like 12 weeks) in a substantial portion of your calorie intake (say 10-25%) will increase Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG). SHBG will bind to estrogens, but to testosterone too.
Flax also inhibits aromatase. I'm doing the experiment right now: it's in my program thread:
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=38202#pid38202
That may be the cause of the increase in DHEA, because if your anti-androgens block 5α-reductase (the enzyme that makes DHT from testosterone) and flax inhibits aromatase (the enzyme that makes estrogens from testosterone), testosterone will just stay testosterone, and grow muscles.
Testosterone is made from DHEA. The way your body normalizes the excess in sex hormones is this: the pituitary gland stops making LH, so the production of sex hormones stops. But I don't know if that will also lower DHEA. You may also be increasing DHEA yourself, e.g. by using maca.
If you want NBE, you want estrogen excess and estrogen dominance. You only want to do something about it when the symptoms of estrogen dominance (foggy thinking, headaches, depression) become too bad. What I do is take fenugreek: that increases progesterone. The extra progesterone restores the hormone balance between estrogens and progesterone. The symptoms of estrogen dominance will go away. If fenugreek doesn't work, try a strong phyto-progestin, like fennel seed tea.
Flax, if taken for long periods (like 12 weeks) in a substantial portion of your calorie intake (say 10-25%) will increase Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG). SHBG will bind to estrogens, but to testosterone too.
Flax also inhibits aromatase. I'm doing the experiment right now: it's in my program thread:
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=38202#pid38202
That may be the cause of the increase in DHEA, because if your anti-androgens block 5α-reductase (the enzyme that makes DHT from testosterone) and flax inhibits aromatase (the enzyme that makes estrogens from testosterone), testosterone will just stay testosterone, and grow muscles.
Testosterone is made from DHEA. The way your body normalizes the excess in sex hormones is this: the pituitary gland stops making LH, so the production of sex hormones stops. But I don't know if that will also lower DHEA. You may also be increasing DHEA yourself, e.g. by using maca.
If you want NBE, you want estrogen excess and estrogen dominance. You only want to do something about it when the symptoms of estrogen dominance (foggy thinking, headaches, depression) become too bad. What I do is take fenugreek: that increases progesterone. The extra progesterone restores the hormone balance between estrogens and progesterone. The symptoms of estrogen dominance will go away. If fenugreek doesn't work, try a strong phyto-progestin, like fennel seed tea.