Blood Sugar Solution Challenge, Day 22: Flax Offers Three-for-One Metabolic Power

Flax is a super food. It gives you a three-for-one metabolism boost. Learn why flax is so powerful and some simple ways to add it to your diet in Dr. Hyman's video for today.

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Comments

[GiannaKali]

04:07 PM on 03/20/2012

what is your opinion about the phytic acid in flax? the nutritional world is split on this issue some people saying it's a powerful anti-nutrient that inhibits the absorption of important dietary minerals...like magnesium, zinc, iron etc...

[Sayer Ji]

03:27 PM on 03/20/2012

Great information again Dr. Hyman! As far as the estrogen connection with flaxseed, not only does it shunt estradiol metabolism towards the beneficial 2-hydroxylestrone and away from the potentially carcinogenic 16-hydroxylestrone, but it was proven to regress human breast cancer tumors in a 2005 clinical study published in the Journal Clinical Cancer Research http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/confirmed-flaxseed-contains-estrogens-regress-cancer