N-Acetyl Cysteine and Increased Serum Testosterone Level

• Meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of L-carnitine and N-acetylcysteine monotherapy for male idiopathic infertility.

  • 2025
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Revista internacional de andrologia 23(1)
  • • Xiaohong Ma
    • Yingying Yang
    • Shiguo Liu
    • Yuanshan Cui
    • Jitao Wu

  • PubMed: 40350672
  • DOI: 10.22514/j.androl.2025.004

  6 Insights on

  • Increased Serum Testosterone Level

  • High evidence

  Both LC and NAC can improve sperm motility, sperm concentration, and normal morphology, and increase serum testosterone concentration, but have no significant effect on other serum hormones.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No