Abstrakt
The great popularity of various diets in recent years has led us to reflect on their suitability for our health. The aim of this communication is to review current knowledge on the influence of the most well-known diets on the concentrations of the main steroids and to consider possible mechanisms.
The influence of diet on hormone concentrations is expected, but the literature data on this topic are inconsistent and yield conflicting results. The main problem in evaluating these influences is the change in weight that a change in diet induces.
This effect needs to be filtered out in order to discover interesting associations between the effects of ketogenic diets on testosterone levels in men, levels, but a number of papers have described increases that are of cortisol.