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Friendship ended with coffee, now tea is my best friend. No promises but I'll try to post about a different tea each day!
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I became a tea girl around the same time I started blocking my T. Coincidence? ๐ค
Green tea extract blocks DHT5! ...but also contains a fuckload of caffeine and can potentially cause cardiovascular issues if you're taking enough of it to work as a T-blocker
...I wish I had known back then that you can just, like, buy bica and/or spiro on the interwebs. Don't try to do herbal HRT, kids.
I used to take reishi mushroom extract for acne since it blocks DHT, with good results I think. I went from having big cysts to just normal pimples, which I could mostly control with a pretty extensive face care routine.
Didn't work as well as spiro, though. That nuked my acne, I basically don't get anything besides a tiny zit every few months.
Red reishi is one of the better herbal T-blocker options. It's just rough since the supplement industry is so freaking unregulated, and concentrations between batches can vary wildly.
BAD MEDICAL ADVICE, NEVER DO THIS
I tried reishi for a bit alongside pueraria mirifica for E content, but since so much of the stuff just gets metabolized in the liver before it hits your bloodstream, I had also thrown in either dandelion root tincture or milk thistle as a CYP3A4 inhibitor. You know it's working when you have constant migraines and vertigo because your liver is getting ready to check out on you. I made it a little over a month before I had to give up and look into safer alternatives, like Brazilian bathtub estradiol.For whatever it's worth, the first two weeks of that herbal cocktail felt about the same as when I started on bica + transdermal E gel, though.