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(reply to Anonymous)

DIM is a plant indole. In other words, a plant compound with health-promoting properties. You are correct about cabbage. DIM and other plant indoles are found in all cruciferous vegetables. Cruciferous vegetables include cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower. These plants have consumed for centuries for their medicinal properties. In the late 1980's scientists discovered that when broccoli was added to the diets of study animals, it could prevent certain forms of cancer. In more recent scientific studies, this same cancer protection was shown to result from simply adding supplements of DIM or related plant indoles to the animals' diets in place of the broccoli. Recently, regular use of DIM supplements (or any other indole relative) has shown that many of these health-promoting effects arise from a beneficial shift in the balance of the sex hormones, estrogen and testosterone.

In regards to your question about regulating hormonal levels, DIM could not hurt as it stimulates more efficient estrogen metabolism. Supplementing the diet with DIM and eating cruciferous vegetables will probably promote a healthier transition into menopause. However, keep in mind that DIM increases the specific aerobic metabolism for estrogen, multiplying the chance for estrogen to be broken down into its beneficial, or "good" estrogen metabolites. Nothing wrong with that correct? Many of the benefits that are attributed to estrogen, which include its ability to protect the heart and brain with its antioxidant activity, are now known to come from these "good" metabolites. As long as you can promote estrogen presence in your body the better protection you will maintain for your heart, brain, etc. I hope this helps!

November 24, 2008 - 11:59pm

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