Green tea or no green tea?

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Originally Posted by Zivic-Bubac

Green tea is not a good idea for dh since it raises estrogen.
But it obviously has other blue swaying ingredients when taken by dw. I'm drinking it religiously, 1 large cup in the morning ( but maybe I'll start drinking it in the afternoon bcos it inhibits FA absorption....)

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ARe you taking your FA in one dose?? If at all possible, it's better absorbed if you divide it into 4-6 doses and take them throughout the day, morning, lunch, afternoon, and bedtime. Otherwise you pee out a lot of it.

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Originally Posted by begonia

The sticky about ways to increase testosterone has a reply, I think maybe from Skrimpy? that says ... "OK a few notes - firstly, Viene noted that green tea can increase estrogen so we will stay away from that for trying for a boy."

Maybe this is where some of us are getting confused on green tea? Am I reading that incorrectly? It seems to indicate a negative for green tea w/ swaying boy.

Is it just me or the more I read the more I feel like so many things can go either way?!?! Ah the confusion of swaying ...

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I know, right?? So frustrating. We'll crack it yet!

OK, I am really confused about this green tea business now. I have been drinking it for months now and I really enjoy it now. DH has been drinking it for a while too but since we have just started our boy diet I have told him to stop. I'm just trying to work out if the antioxidants in it are more of a benefit than the risk of it lowering estrogen for me/increasing it for DH (since there is dispute on whether it lowers or increases estrogen). I really hope I'm making sense! Basically I just want to know if I should keep drinking it even though we don't know for sure whether it increases or decreases estrogen. How big a part in swaying does estrogen actually play?

I think the antioxidant and fertility boosting benefits of green tea as a part of the overall High-Everything-style diet outweighs any potential risks to the estrogen. This one I did look into (unlike the flaxseed D'OH) and the estrogen lowering stuff is very very minor.

If you were following a very limited low-cal diet and were drinking a lot of green tea, then it may be that it might have some anti-blue effect, but with everything else we do to sway blue, it totally counteracts the effects of the green tea because they just aren't that significant.

Plus, I do know from firsthand experience you can conceive boys drinking a lot of green tea (because DH and I drank it with DS 3) and I've seen several people drinking green tea for their blue sway.

Honestly I am still not convinced that sky high estrogen = boys anyway.