Anti-Estrogenic Diet

Having enjoyed the original out-of-the-box ideas in Ori Hofmekler's The Warrior Diet, I got interested when I read the first three sentences from his latest book The Anti-Estrogenic Diet:

• There is too much estrogen in the world today.
• Never before has the human body been exposed to such an overwhelming amount of estrogenic substances.
• Most of our conventional food is estrogenic.

The rest of the book deals with how we can prevent estrogen making us fat and sick.

For example, the following are recommended for anti-estrogenic effects:

• cruciferous vegetables,
• green leafy vegetables,
• other vegatables (onions, garlic, celery, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, beets, etc)
• nuts (almonds, walnuts, pecans, etc),
• seeds (pumpkin, flax, hemp, sesame, etc),
• avocados,
• olives and olive oil,
• berries,
• citrus fruits,
• beans (string beans, hummus etc, except soy products)
• red apples,
• red grapes,
• omega-3 oils (from wild-catch fatty fish or flax/hemp seeds),
• organic dairy (whole milk products from grass-fed cows),
• whole oats/barley, or quinoa
• wheat/rice germ oils,
• raw honey (and other bee products),
• spices (turmeric/curcumin/curry, oregano, thyme, rosemary, sage, etc),
• herbs (green tea, milk thistle, dandelion root, ginger etc),
• eggs,
• and last but not least, exercise.

Stuff to avoid include:

• estrogenic chemicals in various lotions, plasticizers, preservatives, pesticides, weed killers, paints, dyes, lubricants, adhesives etc,
• grains,
• sugar,
• meat from farm animals,
• refined/processed food,
• synthetic vitamins,
• soy,
• excessive alcohol (beer is the worst, due to hops)
• estrogenic herbs (licorice etc).

If you are interested, there is more information in the book. Not that much more though, as the main part of the book contains only 114 pages, followed by nice but not so essential chapters (Recipes, Q&A, Appendix, Glossary, References, Index etc).

This book should be especially useful for obese individuals who are disappointed with other diets. But even healthy and skinny runners would probably benefit from learning a bit more about how to protect themselves against our increasingly estrogenic environment.