Women's Healthpreliminary · human dataDiscovery of the day
Pooled evidence from 11 studies in regularly menstruating women found exercise had no significant effect on estradiol or progesterone, while testosterone showed a statistically significant change, though the underlying studies disagreed heavily with one another.
- Study design
- Meta-analysis
- Journal
- BMC Womens Health
- Evidence
- preliminary
What it shows: Thin ice: 11 mostly small studies, nearly half without random assignment, and they disagreed with each other so strongly that the testosterone signal cannot be trusted yet. The steadier message is that estradiol and progesterone showed no clear shift with exercise.Meta-analysis · BMC Womens Health
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