Sex hormone response to alcohol

Lifestyle factors and serum androgens among 636 middle aged men from seven countries in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

“…Alcohol consumption was not associated with serum T concentration, which is consistent with a previous study [53], although others have reported an inverse association [54,55]. The positive association of alcohol intake with FT appeared to be most likely a result of the small decrease in SHBG, which again is consistent with some [17,36,56] but not all studies [19].…”

The association of lifetime alcohol use with measures of abdominal and general adiposity in a large-scale European cohort

“…Androgen hormone status was shown to be related to fat distribution, whereas men with lower levels and women with higher levels of androgen sex hormones were at higher risk of abdominal fat accumulation (Khaw and Barrett-Connor, 1992;Blouin et al, 2008). Alcohol use in other studies was associated with higher levels of androgen hormones in women and lower levels in men (Eriksson et al, 1994;Sarkola et al, 2000).…”

The Role of Alcohol and Steroid Hormones in Human Aggression

“…Thus, Eriksson et al, (1994) and Sarkola et al, (2000) reported acute elevations in the testosterone concentrations in premenopausal women in the midphase of the menstrual cycle and in women using oral contraceptives during the whole cycle. Little effects of alcohol on DHT have been found (Sarkola et al, 1999).…”