St.John's wort a 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor??

Therapeutic Efforts Supplements & Lifestyle
#1

Hi guys,

I’ve been experiencing a lot of anxiety and I am considering St.John’s wort. What has been your experience with it?

Did some research and found a study (see below) that suggested that it may be a 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor. The study also found after two weeks on St.John’s wort that he combined concentrations of the 5alpha-reduced steroids, AoS and epiAoS, significantly declined following treatment in all subjects (p = 0.02), and in males (p = 0.04).

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16261523

Thoughts?

I work in mental health so I’ve been doing CBT, cardio, mindfullness meditation and taking a bunch of supplements (passion flower, vitamin D, zinc, inositol, garlic, t boosters etc.) and have only seen a bit of an improvement.

Thanks in advance,

Jay

#2

did you try it out?

#3

I didn’t Vincentv, too afraid that it might fuck things up like Fin. Did you try it?

#4

If that is true it will make your anxiety worse.

#5

made me feel like shit. My serotonin as measured in urine is already over range high.