| Body Fat Obesity & Cancer | | | | While the correct balance of hormones is |
| Men's body fat and women's body fat are | | | | important, endocrine specialists have been looking |
| different; it always seems easier for a man to | | | | at achieving a hormonal balance naturally. |
| shed weight than a woman. He has to stop | | | | Diindolyimethane is an anti cancerous nutrient |
| drinking beer for a month, go out for a few walks | | | | founds in the cruciferous family of vegetables |
| after dinner and do a few hours a week on a | | | | which are broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage |
| cross trainer or rowing machine. Some women | | | | amongst others. Edible plants in the Cruciferae |
| virtually starve themselves and eat just what | | | | family are Cruciferous vegetables. They are all |
| their body needs to lose weight and they hang | | | | high in vitamin C and soluble fiber and contain |
| onto that fat for dear life. | | | | multiple nutrients with anti cancer properties which |
| The difference is estrogen dominance, which | | | | include diindolylmethane, sulforaphane and selenium. |
| means either the body produces too much of the | | | | Unfortunately, it is not a simple matter or just |
| estrogen hormones or not enough progesterone | | | | eating more cruciferous vegetables, although |
| to balance it. Even women with exceptionally low | | | | diindolylmethane is released when the plants are |
| estrogen levels can have estrogen dominant | | | | chewed. Medical research had illustrated that it |
| symptoms if her body does not manufacture | | | | would be necessary to eat a kilo of vegetables in |
| progesterone. This estrogen dominance leads to | | | | the cruciferous family each day to get the benefit |
| weight gain and obesity especially around the | | | | of diindolylmethane. For many people this is an |
| abdomen. Weight gain and estrogen dominance | | | | unrealistic amount, although it does attest to the |
| has been linked directly to ovarian and breast | | | | fact that at least ten portions of fresh fruit and |
| cancer and it can lead to cervical dysplasia which | | | | vegetables are required every day to get the |
| causes the cells in the cervix to change. | | | | amount of required diindolylmethane |
| In the past all of these hormonal imbalances were | | | | Many people find the diindolylmethane or DIM |
| treated by stuffing more hormones into the body. | | | | supplements are a better way of ingesting the |
| However recently it has been apparent that | | | | nutrients of the cruciferous family. A stable form |
| women have an individual and unique hormonal | | | | of DI M supplements has been developed, that |
| pattern. One of the quirks of our body is that if | | | | has special absorption properties so that is can be |
| we treat estrogen imbalance with progesterone | | | | absorbed by the body to help to restore |
| and the body gets too much progesterone it can | | | | hormonal balance naturally. Once this has been |
| be metabolized into estrogen, thus exacerbating | | | | achieved then the symptoms of hormonal |
| the very problems that it is designed to cure. | | | | estrogens dominance has gone. |