Pomegranate and testosterone

I wonder if the beneficial effect of pomegranate juice could be that it
suppresses testosterone. I have noticed a marked reduction in "desire"
since I started drinking pomegranate juice.


---MIKE---
>>In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
>> (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')

---MIKE--- wrote:
> I wonder if the beneficial effect of pomegranate juice could be that it
> suppresses testosterone.

In http://www.psa-rising.com/eatingwell...te-juice06.htm

is this comment:
Dr. Pantuck's team found no effect of pomegranate juice on the men's
testosterone levels. "The lack of any observed effect on serum androgen
levels," Pantuck writes, "suggests that the effect is not primarily
hormonal in nature."

I have not followed that trail back to its source. It's just one of many
Google hits on <pomegranate affect testosterone> .

I.P.

"I.P. Freely" <fuhgheddaboutit@noway.nohow> wrote in message
news:aAuZl.4178$f43.2690@newsfe03.iad...
> ---MIKE--- wrote:
>> I wonder if the beneficial effect of pomegranate juice could be that it
>> suppresses testosterone.
>
> In http://www.psa-rising.com/eatingwell...te-juice06.htm
>
> is this comment:
> Dr. Pantuck's team found no effect of pomegranate juice on the men's
> testosterone levels. "The lack of any observed effect on serum androgen
> levels," Pantuck writes, "suggests that the effect is not primarily
> hormonal in nature."
>
> I have not followed that trail back to its source. It's just one of many
> Google hits on <pomegranate affect testosterone> .
>
> I.P.

There is a great deal of sugar in pomegranate juice. It is possible that
there is some side effect of the sugar rush and crash that is having the
impact you observe. You may want to look into using pomegranate extract.

Alex

---MIKE--- wrote:
> I wonder if the beneficial effect of pomegranate juice could be that it
> suppresses testosterone. I have noticed a marked reduction in "desire"
> since I started drinking pomegranate juice.
>
>
> ---MIKE---
>>> In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
> >> (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')
>

MIKE,

That would be a scientific miracle if pomegranate juice worked by
reducing the level of T. A 2008 study showed that men with lower levels
of DHT at the time of PCA diagnosis had lower survival levels than men
with higher levels of DHT:
http://www.europeanurology.com/artic...654-9/abstract

Since lowering T would lower the level of DHT, then unless you drop T to
castrate level or below, there is no way that lowering T would be
beneficial without refuting the above study.

Ed Friedman