{"id":1772,"date":"2026-05-30T12:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:58:26","slug":"quick-acting-boron-one-week-of-low-dose-supplementation-alters-sex-hormones-and-lowers-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/quick-acting-boron-one-week-of-low-dose-supplementation-alters-sex-hormones-and-lowers-inflammation\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick-Acting Boron: One Week of Low-Dose Supplementation Alters Sex Hormones and Lowers Inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A small human trial tested whether rapidly absorbed boron affects steroid hormones and inflammation after single-dose and short-term use. Healthy men took a boron capsule once and then daily for several days; plasma boron rose within hours and stayed elevated.<br>Within hours, SHBG, hsCRP and TNF-\u03b1 fell. After the supplementation period, free testosterone rose while estradiol fell; dihydrotestosterone, cortisol and vitamin D showed modest increases and overall inflammatory markers declined. This first human report linking short-term boron intake to increased free testosterone suggests potential endocrine and anti-inflammatory effects worth further study<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0946672X10001148\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0946672X10001148<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small human trial tested whether rapidly absorbed boron affects steroid hormones and inflammation after single-dose and short-term use. Healthy men took a boron capsule once and then daily for several days; plasma boron rose within hours and stayed elevated.Within hours, SHBG, hsCRP and TNF-\u03b1 fell. After the supplementation period, free testosterone rose while estradiol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}