Very low-fat diets (<30g fat/day) with high carbohydrate intake can reduce estrogen and testosterone levels. — Whalespan
Very low-fat diets (<30g fat/day) with high carbohydrate intake can reduce estrogen and testosterone levels.
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“I have had some patients who are like bodybuilder type eating very low-fat diets we're talking like less than 30 grams of fat per day and eating a lot of carbs and they get their body fat so low that they start to reduce they're estrogen and testosterone levels they become hypo hypo hypothalamic hypo gone at all I've seen testosterones and men of like less than 200 in these situations I've seen estrogen levels zero and women”