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I just found out that the xanthohumol in hops binds to testosterone receptors. Apparently thats what was meant by "inhibit". To me that seems to imply that hops should actually be androgenic at low doses, but Ive never heard of such a thing. Does "binding" to a receptor always mean that the receptor is "activated", so to speak, or can a receptor really be simply blocked? Is hops ever androgenic? What does this all mean? Im so confused, lol. To add to my confusion, I recently heard that beer lowers testosterone in men, but raises it in women. Beer contains vanishingly small amounts of xanthohumol, and hops is not the only (or possibly even the primary) reason why beer effects horomone levels. In other words, the whole beer issue might not even have anything to do with hops, but it is confusing. *sigh*