Sesame seeds might help your body process estrogen in a healthier way, which could boost testosterone levels by reducing how much estrogen holds it back.

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Effects of Sesame Oil on the Reproductive Parameters of Diabetes Mellitus-Induced Male Rats

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2013 Aug

The study tested sesame oil in male rats with diabetes and found it increased testosterone levels. This lines up with the idea that sesame might help boost testosterone, possibly by affecting estrogen, but the study didn’t check that directly.

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Eating sesame seeds might help your body process estrogen in a healthier way, which could help keep your testosterone levels from dropping too low.

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Sesame seeds might help your body process estrogen in a safer way, making more of the good kinds and less of the bad kinds that could cause problems.

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Sesame seeds contain compounds that can act like estrogen or block estrogen, depending on how much estrogen is already in the body. When estrogen levels are low, these compounds add to it; when estrogen levels are high, they reduce its effects.

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Taking sesame supplements might boost testosterone by changing how the body handles estrogen, and the more you take, the greater the effect.

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Certain compounds from sesame seeds can act like estrogen in breast cancer cells grown in a dish. This effect is stopped by a drug that blocks estrogen receptors, showing these compounds work through those receptors.

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