'Phyto' means 'plant'
Three types of Phyto-Estrogens
- isoflavones, most common
- lignans, fairly common
- coumestan, not common
isoflavones, "A bad actor"
estrogen binding requires dual oxygen
Estrogen - lipid
Phyto-estrogen - a bad lipid
- lipid disorder
- high LDL cholesterol
Symptoms of Phyto-estrogen
- diabetes
- weight gain
- osteoporosis
- hormone problems
- irregular menstruation
- painful menstrual cycles
- male testosterone deficiency
- lipid imbalance, high cholesterol
- difficult menopause, hormone therapy
- - not well - low energy - infertile - lethargic -
Phyto-estrogen, cancer risk
- breast cancer
- ovarian caner
- cervical cancer
- prostate cancer
- bowel cancer
- brain cancer
- liver cancer
The worst oils
- flax oil
- peanut oil
- sunflower oil
- vegetable oils
- black bean oil
- sesame seed oil
The best oils
- lard
- butter
- Olive oil
- bacon fat
- chicken fat
- ghee - clarified butter
The worst supplements
- black kohosh
- pumpkin seed extract
- soy isoflavones
The worst foods
- flax seeds
- sesame seeds
- soy beans
- soy sauce
- soy
- tofu
- Miso
- humus
- soy veggie burger
- soy protein powder
- protein bar
- textured veggie protein
- multi-grain bread
- plant based protein
- black beans
- mung bean sprouts
- dried apricots
- alfalfa sprouts
- dried dates
- sunflower seeds
- chestnuts
- dried prunes
- rye bread
- walnuts
- almonds
- cashews
- hazel nuts
- green beans
- white beans
- peaches
Better foods
- fish
- meat
- carrots
- cabbage
- avoid seeds
- white rice (not brown rice)
- leaves, stems, bark, tubers
- unbleached white flour, not-fortified (seeds are removed)
- fruit, no seeds please, caution: high sugar content - diabetes, obesity
The key issue is the binding site for human estrogen is identical to plant estrogen. In the comparison image you can see the edge oxygen location, shown in red oxygen. The distance and space orientation to the molecule of the binding dependent oxygen is identical between phyto and human estrogen.
The mess up is that the phyto-estrogen also has oxygen mid way along which counters some of the oil (lipid) effects of carbon. This unexpected oxygen causes irregularities and molecular dysfunction at the binding site. Hormone imbalances occur and the ill effects after fertility are often of cancer cell proliferation near the binding site.
In males the elevated estrogen interferes with testosterone and puts the whole endocrine system in stress with pituitary confusion.
Menstrual irregularities often occur at a young age and later on cause difficult menopause. Many doctors attempt to 'fix' the problem with steroids and hormone therapy. This may work short time but often fails.
Best is to change the diet early and avoid problems later.