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  • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    sorry if this is the wrong place to post … after that thread last week (or was it just a few days ago??) i’m trying to become vegan, i’m assuming that will have some effect on hormone levels? does anyone have experience with that?

    • ElectronNumberSeven [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      As far as I’m aware being vegan doesn’t really have any sort of effect on hormone levels. The whole thing about estrogen in soy is just a myth unfortunately. I’ve been vegan for 5 years and on HRT for 14 months with no problems.

      • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I can’t think of any mechanism in terms of diet and feminizing HRT. If anything, from what I’ve read in the literature, red meat (probably meat in general) increases T production - except I’ve also seen research that it drops sperm counts? So I dunno, I’d say go vegan with 0 concerns about how it effects or doesn’t hormone production. Especially if you regularly test hormone levels anyway.