Better Estrogen Levels for Men and Women

- Roger Mason

     

Recently this column was devoted to a new supplement I3C (indole-3-carbinol) and it's metabolite DIM (di-indolyl methane). I warned you that both I3C and DIM were very overpriced.

Seriously folks I want all of you over 40, male or female to take this supplement for a lot of good reasons which I'll explain right now.

It is a myth that Western women are deficient in estrogen and need to take horse estrogen (Premarin from PREgnant MARes urINe) to raise their levels especially after menopause. Western women are up to their ears in estrogen gobbling down endless amounts of saturated fat, drinking alcohol, not getting any exercise and being overweight. Why do you think American women get 1 in 8 cases of breast cancer? One in eight women you know will end up with breast cancer which is the direct result of excess estradiol and estrone (the two most powerful human estrogens). Not to mention all the other cancers, diseases and conditions that excess estrogen causes. So what does estrogen have to do with men? Men over 50 have literally higher estrogen levels than their wives. Frightening, huh? That' s a big reason men get fat, grow breasts, get prostate disease and lose their hair. The same reasons apply for this excess load of estrogen- gobbling down animal fats, drinking, laying on your dead butts watching TV and being overweight. All American men will end up with prostate cancer if they live long enough. Fact.

It is almost impossible to lower estrogen levels except by big changes in diet and lifestyle. Most people simply are not willing to do this. Can't medical science do anything? Yes, give you dangerous, toxic, expensive "anti-aromatase" drugs. Bad choice there.

You have another choice to change your estrogen metabolism and lower your levels. Eat a half head of cabbage a day or a pound of broccoli or cauliflower. Don't like that choice, huh? Then take 400 mg of I3C which is overpriced. Or take 200 mg of the direct metabolite DIM or di-indolyl methane.

When I read the Journal of the National Cancer Institute from 1990 (vol. 82, p. 947-9) I just couldn't believe what I had been missing for 11 years. Real live humans were given I3C and lowered their estradiol (the most powerful and carcinogenic) levels 18% in a week! It also improved the entire metabolism of estrogens. DIM will do the same thing with only half the amount for less money since it is the direct digestive metabolite of I3C. The authors of this study concluded, "These results indicate that indole-3-carbinol strongly influences estradiol metabolism in humans and may provide a new chemopreventative agent."