Health Claims

Eating about 3.5 tablespoons of tahini (a sesame paste) causes a big rise in blood fats called triglycerides in healthy men after 4 hours. This happens because tahini is high in fat.

Eating about 3 tablespoons of tahini can help your blood vessels work better within just a few hours, according to a study in healthy men.

Eating 50 grams of tahini (sesame paste) can lower your blood pressure and heart rate within a few hours, at least for healthy young men.

Some boys with a rare brain condition causing early puberty don't see their testosterone levels drop all the way to normal, even after long-term treatment with a common hormone therapy.

In boys with a rare brain condition causing early puberty, a combo treatment might not stop puberty from progressing, even if it lowers some hormones — because they keep growing too fast and their bones mature too quickly.

For boys with a rare brain condition causing early puberty that doesn’t respond well to standard treatment, adding two more medications to their existing one might help slow down the early growth changes and improve their long-term height over time.

Just because some kids come back to gender clinics around puberty doesn't mean their gender identity as kids will definitely stay the same into adolescence.

Kids who were 13 or older when their medical records were reviewed were more likely to come back to gender services later — about 56% of them — especially if they were going through or about to go through puberty.

About 1 in 4 kids who weren’t ready for gender care when they were really young came back for another check-up when they started going through puberty, which is a key time to think about treatment.

Lots of families in Western Australia are bringing their young kids — before they hit puberty — to gender clinics, especially for boys assigned at birth, and that’s often why their cases get closed.

Giving certain hormone treatments to girls over 6 with early puberty doesn’t seem to change how tall they end up as adults compared to what’s typical for the population.

Girls with early puberty who get a certain hormone treatment tend to have slower bone aging—about 1 year less—compared to girls who don’t get the treatment.

Girls with early puberty who get a certain treatment tend to end up slightly taller than what their genes predicted — about half a centimeter more on average.

Girls with early puberty who get a certain hormone treatment tend to grow about 3 inches taller as adults compared to those who don’t get it, according to a review of several studies.

Girls with early puberty who get a certain hormone treatment might grow about 2.5 cm taller on average than those who don’t get it, according to a review of several studies.

In girls with early puberty, things like their parents' height, hormone levels, and the type of medication they take don't seem to affect how fast they grow in the first year of treatment.

Girls with early puberty who take certain hormone treatments might grow more slowly later on if their bones are maturing too fast — this could mean they stop growing sooner than others.

In girls getting treatment for early puberty, how fast they're growing after a year is linked to their height, weight, and how much weight they've gained during that time.

In girls who start puberty too early and are treated with a certain hormone therapy, those who are taller than average at the start, gain more weight in the first 6 months, or have higher levels of a growth-related hormone might grow faster during treatment — which could help doctors spot who will respond best early on.

For girls with early puberty, stopping either leuprolide or histrelin leads to periods starting again at about the same pace — so both treatments seem to wear off in a similar way.

How long a girl takes a certain puberty-delaying medicine doesn’t change when her period starts after she stops the treatment — her body picks up where it left off, no matter how long she was on the drug.

If a girl's bones mature faster while she's on treatment for early puberty, she's likely to start her period sooner after stopping the medicine — even if we account for how mature her bones were to begin with.

Girls with early puberty who start treatment with certain hormone drugs tend to get their first period sooner after stopping treatment if their bones are more mature when they begin the therapy.

Girls with early puberty who are further along in breast development when they start a certain treatment tend to get their first period sooner after stopping the treatment compared to girls who were less developed when they started.