[lfjokes] So now you know why it's happening to you..
Simondo
simondo at paradise.net.nz
Wed Oct 30 05:08:41 EST 2002
I wasn't sent a source for this unfortunately...
simondo
Men who indulge their sweet tooth by eating liquorice may later find
themselves unable to indulge their sweetheart, researchers in Italy
have found.
Decio Armanini of the University of Padua and his colleagues asked
seven healthy young men to eat 7g of liquorice every day for a week.
After only four days, the subjects testosterone levels had dropped by an
average of 44%.
Glycyrrhizin acid - a compound in liquorice root extract - inhibits an
enzyme involved in the production of the hormone.
The researchers suggest that doctors should consider liquorice as a
potential culprit when treating men with sexual dysfunction.
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