HOW TO LOSE BODY FAT ON THE LEGS, Part I: The Role Of Estrogen Metabolism
Phthalates and Estrogen Toxicity
Plastics have only been around for the last 100 years or so – not enough time for evolution to catch up. We have no efficient detoxification pathway for plastics, which outgas a group of chemicals known as phthalates.
Phthalates leech into our drinking water, air, food, and skin from the plastics in our environment. They are potent estrogen and testosterone disrupters. They stockpile in the body in the fatty tissues, which are the body's storage bin for all toxins.
The presence of those toxins creates more 16 alpha-hydroxyestrone pathways, thus increasing the risk of many types of cancer, and the need to create more storage receptacles – more fat – in the legs.
Getting Healthy Again: Detoxifying Environmental Estrogens
Fortunately for us, there is a way to help our bodies get rid of bad estrogens through nutritional supplementation. Use of the following two substances is a great way to pull harmful estrogens out of the body:
- Flaxseeds
- DIM (diindolmethane)
Flaxseed for Females
Flaxseed is a phytoestrogen, or plant estrogen. In women, it improves health in two ways.
When there is plenty of estrogen, as in a normal pre-menopausal female, it competes with the human estrogen for the same receptor sites. This action prevents high amounts of human estrogen metabolism to occur, which has an inhibitory effect on cancers that depend on estrogen for development.
In cases where there is not adequate estrogen in supply (say peri- or post-menopausal women), phytoestrogens act as weak estrogens. In both cases, a more anabolic environment is achieved, which leads to increased fat burning.
