| Diindolylmethane, or DIM, is a powerful nutrient that | | | | they had the hormonal balance of younger individuals, |
| comes from cruciferous vegetables. Cruciferous | | | | which in turn cut their chances of developing these |
| vegetables include vegetables such as broccoli, | | | | cancers in half. |
| cabbage, turnip greens, kale, and many, many more. | | | | After making this discovery they went a little further |
| When you chew these vegetables it releases this | | | | and tested the nutrient on a specimen with cancer, |
| enzyme, that then mixes with your stomach acid, | | | | and it in fact destroyed the human cancer cell! This |
| and creates this wonderful nutrient known as DIM. | | | | destruction of the human cancer cell of course |
| When scientists started researching the role of diet in | | | | prompted several more tests and much more |
| the development of cancer they noticed an | | | | research, but all of them had a similar ending. In |
| undeniable trend, countries that grow and eat a diet | | | | every single test performed the nutrient DIM |
| high in these cruciferous vegetables have a very low | | | | balanced the hormonal levels to prevent these types |
| incidence of breast and prostate cancers. This of | | | | of cancers, and when it came in contact with a |
| course prompted them to start researching the | | | | cancer cell it destroyed it before it had a chance to |
| overwhelming coincidence! | | | | mutate. However, DIM not only helps prevent breast |
| After noticing that other countries, and individuals | | | | cancer, it has also been linked to the prevention of |
| such as vegetarians, with a diet high in these | | | | prostate cancer! |
| particular vegetables had a much lower incidence of | | | | One pub-med study stated that "Our results indicate |
| these two types of cancers, it was obvious to the | | | | that DIM exhibits potent antiproliferative and |
| scientist that there was something in the food that | | | | antiandrogenic properties in androgen-dependent |
| prevented it! After much testing they discovered the | | | | human prostate cancer cells". This basically means |
| nutrient DIM. It was during this time that the started | | | | that DIM may help to prevent the growth of the |
| researching the differences inside the body, and what | | | | human prostate cancer cells. Believe me, there is no |
| they found was amazing! | | | | shortage of studies to back up these claims, cancer |
| It is not a newly discovered fact that hormones | | | | is serious stuff and anything that shows promising |
| change as we grow older and play a key role in the | | | | results in the area of prevention is tested, re-tested, |
| development of breast cancer. Women who develop | | | | and tested again just to be sure! |
| breast, uterine, or cervical cancer generally have a | | | | Did you realize that 1 in every 8 women will develop |
| deficiency of the good metabolite oestrogen | | | | breast cancer at sometime during her life, and 1 in |
| (2-hydroxy) and too much of the bad (16-hydroxy), | | | | every 6 men will develop prostate cancer in his |
| this in turn results in a mutation or growth...cancer. | | | | lifetime. DIM is an amazing nutrient that has been |
| Scientists began to test the hormonal levels of | | | | proven to prevent these two devastating types of |
| women, and men who ate an abundance of these | | | | cancers. How about we all help ourselves out and |
| DIM containing vegetables and noticed a promising | | | | lower these numbers dramatically by taking a DIM |
| lead. People who consume high amounts of DIM did | | | | supplement! |
| not have this "normal" aging hormonal fluctuation; | | | | |