What is your opinion about licorice root?

[Sunny]

Hy guys want to take licorice root.
There's one guy at swole source recovered through it apparently.
Did any one here try that or currently trying, what are the effect? Good or bad.
@IHateFin I read somewhere that you are also taking it. how are you doing?

 

[Aleksandr]

I tried it. Bad effect, then good, then bad, then i stopped

 

[snowball]

Had a good experience with Licorice.

 

[Sunny]

Had a good experience with Licorice.

Than why did you stop taking it?
Also do you have genital numbness? Did that improve?

 

[snowball]

Took Ella - that’s why stopped Licorice. For details, read my blog.

Still have numbness, no changes with Licorice.

 

[IHateFin]

Hy guys want to take licorice root.
There's one guy at swole source recovered through it apparently.
Did any one here try that or currently trying, what are the effect? Good or bad.
@IHateFin I read somewhere that you are also taking it. how are you doing?

It doesn't seem like it will cure me the way this guy on swole source did but I feel good on it and a after a few days as well. I love the stuff

 

[pedal]

I love the stuff

You mean the extract in a capsule? What about eating licorice candy ? I love the stuff but I thought it lowers testosterone substantially for a week after eating it. And what's sold as licorice is often made from anise or fennel which complicates my experimentation with the stuff.

 

[Reverse]

Licorice root may seem to cure or help guys but here's what is more than likely the case...

Based off memory...Licorice raises testosterone but is apparently a 5ar inhibitor. Some guys will feel great because of that test boost, but it is more than likely at the cost of 5ar/dht.

Licorice is a common food in the diet of many east asians, they eat it from childhood, and mothers probably eat it when pregnant. You are what you eat, make your own connections...

 

[Niles]

Licorice root may seem to cure or help guys but here's what is more than likely the case...

Based off memory...Licorice raises testosterone but is apparently a 5ar inhibitor. Some guys will feel great because of that test boost, but it is more than likely at the cost of 5ar/dht.

Licorice is a common food in the diet of many east asians, they eat it from childhood, and mothers probably eat it when pregnant. You are what you eat, make your own connections...

Hmm, this may have something to do with it, but I don't think it's the key mechanism for those who've improved on it. Licorice root retains sodium, tanks potassium, lowers aldosterone, and after you quit you get a snapback.

 

[bruschi11]

Hmm, this may have something to do with it, but I don't think it's the key mechanism for those who've improved on it. Licorice root retains sodium, tanks potassium, lowers aldosterone, and after you quit you get a snapback.

Yup. @Helen or @IHateFin could tell you the mechanism of how it works in our cases.

 

[Reverse]

Hmm, this may have something to do with it, but I don't think it's the key mechanism for those who've improved on it. Licorice root retains sodium, tanks potassium, lowers aldosterone, and after you quit you get a snapback.

I'd try it out but with more information. For now I'm going based off of observations and studies of diets from different people's and their physical/psychological development...

point is I'd prefer to find another way to alter sodium and potassium than utilize 5ar inhibitors which seem to be conducive to a certain body chemistry which produces a body type.

It's possible it has many benefits but with the draw back. I'd prefer 5ar not be down regulated in my chemistry. Especially for the future.

 

[Area-1255]

Is Licorice Bad for Men? Yes it Is. (A Detailed Overview on Licorice's Feminizing and Stress-Inducing Properties)

 

[Shadow]

Maybe taking it continuously isnt good, but cycling can be beneficial as we saw

 

[Shadow]

I saw some people in pssd forum using this continuously... this is not good...

I wanted to try some cycling but I have high blood pressure(oscilates a lot) and my last blood test showed high aldosterone, so I dont know, Im afraid to mess my blood pressure even more

 

[Reverse]

Is Licorice Bad for Men? Yes it Is. (A Detailed Overview on Licorice's Feminizing and Stress-Inducing Properties)

Thanks for this. I somehow ended up researching 5ar foods and the people that ingest them. Maybe in part due to hearing Dr. Sebi speak on how native foods to our ancetral lands influence us and having healing potential. Also studying archaeology along with other things.

Anyway, the end result we are faced with now very strongly resembles the development of certain groups who ingest Licorice and similar "foods".


For example, Licorice root is found in a VERY popular cold herbal tea drink in china.

Why then do they eat it? wouldn't they crash? the answer is simple guys.

 

[Niles]

Why then do they eat it? wouldn't they crash? the answer is simple guys.

Sorry, not quite following. What's the point being made here?

 

[Shadow]

Sorry, not quite following. What's the point being made here?

I think that he is trying to say that people adapted to the herbs/food from their own region... so they dont have any bad problem by using/consuming them

 

[snowball]

It could be ...however context is important while reading such reports. These results are when Licorice was tried by non-PFS groups. So, this is not an indicator of how PFSers will react to it. It is possible that cortisol support mechanism likely outweighs any DHT reduction effects in some of us (including myself) and hence results in solid benefits

Is Licorice Bad for Men? Yes it Is. (A Detailed Overview on Licorice's Feminizing and Stress-Inducing Properties)

 

[Reverse]

I think that he is trying to say that people adapted to the herbs/food from their own region... so they dont have any bad problem by using/consuming them

"Adaptation" is kind of what they exhibit. It's more like suppression or down-regulation of 5ar/dht happening since before they are born.

They would technically be considered as having "PFS" without ever feeling a crash because they never developed the chemistry or anatomy of someone with 5ar/dht.

And therefore Licorice would react differently in them and someone who didn't have 5ar/dht suppression since conception.

Point being...Licorice may feel good post crash, but due to what exactly? mineral balancing and supporting an estrogenic type chemistry? but wouldn't that just keep sending the same signal to the body which got us in the mess and would it keep future generations there?

I don't know about you guys but I see and feel the difference when I'm among different groups of people.

Pumpkin seeds are another food, that I read was predominantly consumed by indeginous peoples of the native American type lineage.

This approach to PFS OR study of it may seem odd or unproductive, but I think it's crucial on many different levels.

 

[IHateFin]

You mean the extract in a capsule? What about eating licorice candy ? I love the stuff but I thought it lowers testosterone substantially for a week after eating it. And what's sold as licorice is often made from anise or fennel which complicates my experimentation with the stuff.

I get a bulk powder not a capsule, but usually licorice candy doesn't use the real root but if you find one that is organic and does then that should work. Powder is tasty when mixed in water