17 Oct women’s health – the nutrient diindolylmethane (DIM)

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what is di-indolylmethane (DIM)?

DIM is clinically promising for people suffering from hormone imbalances and poor breast and uterine health. DIM is photochemical this occurs naturally as I3C in cruciferous vegetables such as:

  • broccoli
  • brussel sprouts
  • cabbage
  • cauliflower

DIM encourages estrogen’s in the body to select specific enzymatic pathways that result in the breakdown products that are balancing for hormonal health. As a result, they are cardio-protective and cancer protective for particular tissues in the body including those found in the breast and uterus.

menopausal women

Hormone replacement therapy, especially when taken in a natural form, can enhance health and quality of life for many women. The variety of life benefits includes an increased sense of vitality and well-being, improved sexual function, and a decrease in hot flashes, insomnia, mood changes, and urinary incontinence. The body’s ability to obtain the health benefits of oestrogen, when supplemented, depends upon its ability to break oestrogen down in a healthful fashion. Even women that choose not to pursue hormone replacement therapy have much to gain from the use of di-indolylmethane. It will help metabolise the limited oestrogen that your body makes on its own into breakdown products that are cancer- and cardio-protective. It will also increase your production of progesterone. Increase the levels of progesterone which will further balance hormones, resolving mood changes, headaches, insomnia, and breast pain. Additionally, progesterone is an important hormone for maintaining healthy bones.

women of child-bearing age

Many women are unable to metabolise oestrogen in a balanced fashion. Taking the birth control pill can further complicate the unhealthy breakdown of oestrogen which is associated with cervical dysplasia.

A woman who demonstrate symptoms such as heavy bleeding, cramping, PMS, fibrocystic breast changes, uterine fibroids, endometriosis or ovarian cyst formation are all assorted with hormonal imbalances. DIM also supports the body in its production of normal progesterone levels. The

long-term health benefits of hormonal balance, the healthful breakdown of estrogen’s, and proper levels of progesterone are preventative for oestrogen related cancers in breast and uterine tissues, cardiovascular disease, and bone density losses.

Benefits may include:

• Provides natural support for the body to maintain healthy hormonal balance during the menstrual cycle.

• DIM supports the liver in the clearance of excess or less desirable forms of oestrogens.

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