Have you heard about using spearmint tea to reduce androgen levels?

I have read a bit about this theory. Supposedly drinking two cups a day can lower androgen or testosterone in women. I am wondering if this could help regulate my cycle and in turn help me to conceive? I have not been diagnosed but feel that I may have a hormone imbalance. Do you think there is any merit behind the claims?

Have you heard about using spearmint tea to reduce androgen levels?
Hi!,


Women with hirsutism grow hair on their faces, breasts and stomachs. This can cause great distress. The hair grows because they have abnormally high levels of the ‘masculinising’ androgen hormones. Androgens travel around the body in the blood stream, and a key way of treating hirsutism is to reduce the level of these androgens.





Data just published in Phytotherapy Research shows that drinking two cups of spearmint tea a day for five days could reduce the level of androgens in women with hirsutism.





In the trials the herbal tea was made by pouring a cup (250ml) of boiling water over 1 heaped teaspoon (5g) of dried leaves, and leaving it for 5 to 10 mins.





The team decided to study the effects of spearmint on hirsutism because of previous reports that extracts of the spearmint plant (Mentha spicata Labiatae) could reduce libido in men. A possible reason for this reduced libido could have been that spearmint was reducing their androgen level. Other research had shown that these extracts reduced androgen levels in rats.





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Reply:I would talk with your DR