Phytonutrition With Diindolylmethane (DIM)
Phytonutrients are natural plant compounds that can have a powerful effect on your health. Brightly coloured fruits and vegetables are a particularly rich source of phytonutrients.
The health benefits of vegetables such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale and cauliflower have leading importance. These cruciferous vegetables as they are known offer significant health protection as they supply an array of beneficial compounds. In recent times scientists have pinpointed the health promoting qualities of specific phytonutrients called indoles, unique to this family of vegetables.
What Are Indoles?
Cruciferous vegetables are an abundant source of indoles. A wealth of research demonstrates that these specialised nutrients may have potent effects on hormone health. Chief among them is 3,3'-diindolylmethane (DIM). DIM is considered the most biologically active dietary indole, with concentrations rising with cooking.
Indolplex® Leads The Way in Natural Hormone Balance
Indolplex® features pure, micro-encapsulated DIM. This ground breaking health supplement features highly concentrated and absorption enhanced DIM to assist hormone health in both women and men. Indolplex® is the unique and patented DIM formula developed by researchers at BioResponse® Nutrients, USA. Indolplex® is now regarded as a remarkable aid to natural hormone balance with scientific investigation demonstrating that this phytonutrient formula may have significant effects on healthy oestrogen activity and detoxification.
The Benefits Of Healthy Oestrogen Balance
Oestrogens are the main female hormones, although they are also found in smaller quantities in men with levels increasing with ageing. Oestrogens is the collective term for oestradiol (E2), oestrone (E1) and oestriol (E3). A higher activity of oestrogens, often referred to as ‘oestrogen dominance’ is an increasingly serious problem for both women and men.
Oestrogen activity can be raised by external influences, such as use of the oral contraceptive pill, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), fertility drugs, obesity, stress and oestrogen mimicking environmental chemicals.
The way oestrogens are cleared from your body is critical to reducing oestrogen dominance. Oestrogens are modified and eliminated down three major clearance pathways. This leads to the formation of break down compounds with dramatically different biological activities. An over load of oestrogens in the form of highly active metabolites is responsible for a vast number of today's hormone health conditions.
In women, unhealthy oestrogen metabolites can be responsible for many unfavourable effects, including weight gain, breast disorders and reproductive health issues. In men, these oestrogen metabolites contribute to weight gain and prostate problems.
Emerging evidence demonstrates that Indolplex® may be beneficial in detoxifying oestrogens down the protective pathway. The healthy oestrogen compounds that are formed are termed ‘good’ oestrogen metabolites. These metabolites help safeguard the body from the negative effects of too much oestrogen. When Indolplex® increases the desirable oestrogen metabolites there is a simultaneous reduction in the levels of unhealthy, or so called ‘bad’ oestrogen metabolites.
Indolplex® may assist effective oestrogen metabolism towards the production of protective oestrogen metabolites along with a simultaneous reduction in the levels of undesirable forms to assist hormone health.
Ongoing scientific research supports the proposal that favourable clearance of oestrogens is fundamental to maintaining breast, uterine, cervical and prostate health.
Indolplex® Assists Oestrogen Dominance
Indolplex® is not considered a plant oestrogen. That is, it does not exert a phyto-oestrogenic effect. Nor does Indolplex® increase oestrogen clearance. Indolplex® can help modify oestrogen activity and detoxification down the safer metabolic pathway. Supplemental use of Indolplex® allows both men and women to promote healthy metabolism of oestrogens and the formation of oestrogen metabolites that can help reduce oestrogen dominance.
What about Indole-3-carbinol (I3C)?
Some supplements contain indole-3-carbinol (I3C), a precursor to DIM. However, I3C is unstable and reacts in the stomach converting to DIM and unfavourable non-DIM compounds. This means I3C must be taken at much higher amounts and can undergo unpredictable chemical reactions. This makes DIM by far the preferred supplement. Look for pure, bioavailable DIM featured in the Indolplex® product range. This micro-encapsulated DIM complex ensures safety and effectiveness. Ongoing research now focuses on bioavailable DIM to naturally assist hormone health.
How Natural Medicine Can Help
Your health practitioner can guide you on real solutions to help restore natural hormone health. In addition to increasing cruciferous vegetable intake, Indolplex® and targeted nutrients may promote healthy hormone balance to help you get the most out of life.
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