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so I recently had a question from

someone that wanted to know will

consuming cruciferous increase or

decrease estrogen in my body okay they

were concerned about consuming too much

because they didn’t want to increase the

risk of getting cancer because they

heard that cruciferous was a

phytoestrogen

okay a plant based estrogen there are

different types of estrogen in the body

there are types that increase your risk

for cancer and there are types of

estrogen that do not okay so if your

ratio is very very low in the type of

estrogen that is protective against

cancer and very high in the type of

estrogen that increases your risk for

cancer then you want to consume

cruciferous because there are certain

compounds in cruciferous vegetables that

shift the ratio from the bad to the good

so they lower the bad and they increase

the good estrogen that’s what it does so

you don’t have to worry about it causing

cancer it’ll actually help protect

against cancer now a lot of the research

has been done in animals because it’s

very difficult to do this type of

research on humans simply because

there’s so many variables but we do know

that cruciferous has unique compounds

like indole-3-carbinol for example that

then turn into additional products

called dim I’m not going to give you the

long term for it but dim has the

capacity to create apoptosis which

basically is the killing of cancer cells

DNA protection it decreases the vascular

supply to tumors it will help you

detoxify chemicals in the liver it can

act as an antioxidant to protect the DNA

it also can decrease the spread of

cancer cells and it can even decrease

tumor growth and dim can even be

consumed in a concentrated form as a

supplement one pill of dim is equivalent

to 2 pounds of broccoli and there’s a

tremendous amount of research right now

going on using dim in many different

types of cancer another concern that

people have is consuming cruciferous if

they have a slow thyroid or will the

crucifer

slow their thyroid the benefits of

cruciferous are huge okay so you want to

consume cruciferous if you’re concerned

about cruciferous depleting your iodine

just take some sea kelp

okay one sea kelp tablet in the morning

will give you plenty but the benefit of

having a little bit of cruciferous each

day is huge

that would be broccoli cauliflower kale

cabbage mustard radish bok choy brussel

sprouts

so in summary cruciferous has certain

unique compounds that shift the type of

estrogen that you have to be more

protective against the risk of cancer

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