Green tea or no green tea?

[atomic sagebrush]

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....)

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.

[atomic sagebrush]

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 ...

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

[Plum3]

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?

[atomic sagebrush]

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.