Does peanut butter raise estrogen or does it raise testosterone?

[Angélique LaCava]

I'm worried about what I'm eating now because I don't want my testosterone to go up.the internet is mixed, some say it increases estrogen and some it  increases testosterone.

[jfong]

Too minuscule to be of concern if there's any. Just enjoy the peanut butter.

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[Gertrude]

Too much will raise one'a waistline


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[DemonRaven]

eating lots of protein helps increase the testosterone but the normal amount won't affect you one way or another.

[AutumnLeaves]

I think you are worrying way too much about this kind of thing. You don't need to worry about peanut butter or soda (I notice you posted a similar question about caffeine.) Keep taking your hormones as prescribed by your doctor and you will be fine.

[Tori]

I'm worried about what I'm eating now because I don't want my testosterone to go up.the internet is mixed, some say it increases estrogen and some it  increases testosterone.

You are on HRT. That raises E and lowers T. If your levels are within female range, then no one single meal will change that. If you want more E and less T, find a doctor to prescribe a HRT regimen that eventually accomplishes that goal. Medicine. Not food.

Compared to HRT, any occasional thing you might eat is just... peanuts.

Perhaps spend your time researching something that has a fair amount of peer reviewed research and more coming out virtually every day. HRT. Study how female hormones work in the first place. More isn't always better. Study the T levels in cis females. Less isn't always more. Learn how transitional medicine is supposed to work for you, as a young woman in transition.

Spending your time looking into how singular dietary items effect HRT is an invitation to surrounding yourself with the least factual, most conspiracy minded trans folks on the internet. Just don't. There isn't (yet) any there, there.

In general, just eat what is healthy for a female to eat in order to maintain a good BMI. Don't over or underdo it. Just eat like a healthy woman. And keep your hormones squarely within the range of a healthy woman. And exercise. Live healthy. Be a woman. And you will be a healthy woman.

Allow yourself to have a second puberty. Let the hormones do their work. Don't worry too much about diet, unless you like, ONLY eat peanuts in which case you may not live very long, and hormone levels will be the least of your worries. :p

Good luck

[Colleen_definitely]

One thing I've found is that the internet is the worst environment imaginable for old wives tales. 

The other thing to keep in mind is while something might depress estrogen production in a cis woman, this won't affect us.  Many things can affect ovaries, but we make our estradiol in a factory somewhere (wow that sounds depressing to type).  I can't think of how eating a bit of peanut butter would at all affect how you absorb estradiol from any of the regular ways of taking it.

[Gertrude]

Probably should worry more about vitamin k intake while on hrt.


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[Sarah.VanDistel]

Science has proven that there is a kind of nuts that do significantly raise the testosterone levels. Hint: they don't come from plants. [emoji23] 

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[kelly_aus]

Probably should worry more about vitamin k intake while on hrt if you are taking spironolactone.


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Just a quick correction - cypro doesn't have the issues with potassium.

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There is no food that I can think of that would effect levels in any way unless you are eating a very large amount of it on a daily basis..

[Gertrude]

Just a quick correction - cypro doesn't have the issues with potassium.

EDIT:
There is no food that I can think of that would effect levels in any way unless you are eating a very large amount of it on a daily basis..

It's not the levels I was worried about, but clotting. When I was on Coumadin I had to abstain from eating certain foods as they affected clotting time. Pork and spinach come to mind.


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[kelly_aus]

It's not the levels I was worried about, but clotting. When I was on Coumadin I had to abstain from eating certain foods as they affected clotting time. Pork and spinach come to mind.


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Spiro is a potassium-sparing diuretic, amongst it's varied uses, hence the need to watch potassium intake whilst using it. Cypro works differently and has no specific dietary considerations.

Dietary considerations for warfarin are mostly due to how it works and the stage at which it modifies the clotting cycle.

[staciM]

Science has proven that there is a kind of nuts that do significantly raise the testosterone levels. Hint: they don't come from plants. [emoji23] 

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Lol, clever.