3,3'-Diindolylmethane

Cruciferous vegetables are broccoli and cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, kale and cabbage, arugula.

They contain a compound called DIM, diionylmethane, which directly pushes estrogen down the safer two pathway.

You need to eat a lot of broccoli, right? And then you start talking to people with thyroid issues and they get really worried about a lot of cruciferous vegetables.

But you would need to eat about two pounds of broccoli a day to get a therapeutic dose of DIM.

So yes, go ahead and incorporate broccoli and all of these, the cauliflowers, Brussels sprouts into your diet.

But know that you might need to add in DIM as well to help push this through faster.

So this is one of the products that are within our line of Healthy Living Simple.

It's one of the staples and we use this for both men and women.

Now, if you do the cruciferous sprouts, like broccoli sprouts, that are very high in sulforaphane, that would be a really big trigger.

You can also do a supplement called DIM, which is a concentrated form of cruciferous, which is a potent stimulator of phase one, phase two detoxification as well.

Now, the other really cool thing, which is, uh, pretty inexpensive, um, is you just do fasting.

Fasting is a potent stimulator of the phase one, phase two detoxification.

So kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts.

All of these produce a good amount of something called indole compounds, and that would be things that become I3C and also DIM.

I'm not going to go into the full names of those.

That's typically how we talk about them with our clients.

That's kind of if you come across supplements, they might be called I3C or DIM, D-I-M, DIM.

And they matter a lot more when it comes to estrogen.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through each of those departments within the family, explain different mechanisms behind how they are impactful, and just go through some, again, cooking tips and cutting tips and things like that as well to help you get the most out of those vegetables.

But just to summarize, these glucosinolates, they break down into sulforaphane, allele isothiocyanate, and I3C and DIM.

As your estrogen levels climb relative to progesterone, then we are in a situation where you can feel more anxious, irritable, a little more angry.

It's important to look at this and say, all right, what do we do here, right? One of my favorite recommendations, if this is you, is to take 200 milligrams of DIM daily.

DIM is dietylmethane.

It's a fantastic methylator for hormones.

It comes out of cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, and it can be a massive hormone improver, especially with those aggressive PMS-type changes.