The Claim

Dietary fat intake, including total fat and polyunsaturated fatty acids, is not associated with changes in estradiol, luteinizing hormone, or follicle-stimulating hormone concentrations in regularly menstruating women.

Source: Dietary fat intake and reproductive hormone concentrations and ovulation in regularly menstruating women.

What the research says

Supports is higher

Support is ahead, but a single strong opposing study can change this.

Supports
57score
Challenges
0score

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Correlation
1 study reviewed
In plain English

In women with regular menstrual cycles, the amount of dietary fat consumed, including total fat and polyunsaturated fats, does not change the levels of estradiol, luteinizing hormone, or follicle-stimulating hormone in the blood.

See the scientific wording

Dietary fat intake, including total fat and polyunsaturated fatty acids, is not associated with changes in estradiol, luteinizing hormone, or follicle-stimulating hormone concentrations in regularly menstruating women.

Why this might work

Eating more fat, including healthy fats, does not change the levels of estradiol, LH, or FSH because the body uses those fats to make other hormones like testosterone and progesterone instead, while keeping the key reproductive hormones that control the menstrual cycle unchanged.

Supported mechanismbased on 1 study

What the research says

1 study
  1. Study: Dietary fat intake and reproductive hormone concentrations and ovulation in regularly menstruating women.

    This study found that eating more fat, including healthy polyunsaturated fats, doesn’t change the levels of the key reproductive hormones estradiol, LH, or FSH in women with regular periods. So, the claim that fat intake doesn’t affect these hormones is supported.

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