Found in blue passionflower and to a lesser extent in honeycomb, chrysin belongs to a family of yellow plant pigments called flavonoids. Interest in chrysin and other flavonoids runs high among scientists and nutritionally oriented doctors because of their possible health-promoting benefits.
Surprisingly, young men require the so-called “female hormone,” estrogen, to prevent the body from producing too much testosterone, but as men age, they often suffer from both having not enough testosterone and too much estrogen. This results from the conversion of testosterone to estrogen, and can often interfere with sexual desire as well as reduce energy levels and decrease muscle mass.
Even supplementing testosterone in the form of creams, patches, and injections doesn’t always solve this problem, since the excess estrogen can block the action of testosterone receptor sites. This is roughly like driving home from work and finding that another car parked in your driveway: The testosterone that could be helping to boost your sex drive and improve your athletic performance has got no place to go. Worse, the levels of estrogen in men in their fifties can approach the estrogen level of women in their sixties, with predictably bad results. This constitutes a hormonal “double whammy” for men.
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