Posted by Larry Hoover on September 5, 2004, at 9:45:11
In reply to Re: SJW lowers estrogen??? - Larry, posted by KaraS on September 1, 2004, at 0:28:20
> Larry, this one also:
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> > > > Hi,
> > > > My estrogen levels are sky high (I'm male) and I need to lower them. What do you all recommend? I'm familiar with D.I.M and saw palmetto. Anything else I should look into? Thanks
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> > > St. John's wort. It induces 3A4, and estrogen is a substrate for it.
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> > > Lar
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> > Then someone like me with hotflashes who wants to increase estrogen production should definitely stay away from SJW?
> >
> > (I had just decided to start on it again... sigh)That may be too broad a conclusion to draw. I don't know that you *can* increase estrogen production, if you are cycling into menopause. I don't believe that SJW will totally block any other actions you might consider (hormonal skin creams, black cohosh, or whatever).
Lar
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