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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Cruciferous Vegetables Can Help Thyroid Function, Not Kill It!: Dr. Berg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I explain why your thyroid will be helped, not harmed, when you consume cruciferous vegetables. There’s a lot of misinformation out there stating that cruciferous veggies are harmful to your thyroid or even your entire endocrine system.


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0:00.0

So let's answer another question related to cruciferous, someone wanted to know if it's

0:27.0

okay to consume cruciferous because they're concerned about the thyroid and the

0:32.5

endocrine system is going to create problems with the thyroid. So it is true

0:38.4

there is a chemical called theocyanate in cruciferous vegetables not all of

0:44.9

them some of them and this chemical has the capacity to compete for iodine. So

0:51.9

since the thyroid needs iodine as its mineral the last thing we're going to do

0:56.5

is have this chemical compete for iodine and end up with a hypothyroid condition, right?

1:02.6

But here's the thing it's not going to happen unless you are iodine deficient in the first place

1:09.2

but if you're doing healthy keto if you're taking trace minerals or seek help and you even consume

1:15.2

a good amount of cruciferous you're not going to have a problem and one study 15 grams of cruciferous

1:21.7

per day were consumed that's five ounces of cooked brussel sprouts okay for four weeks absolutely

1:28.6

no adverse effects whatsoever and one more point about that when I recommend consuming

1:34.5

seven to ten cups of vegetable per day I'm not talking about seven to ten cups of cruciferous

1:41.6

vegetables per day that might have been a confusion for some people I couldn't consume that much

1:47.6

brussel sprout or broccoli or whatever I'm talking about like leafy green salads not even spinach

1:54.8

but just leafy green romaine lettuce or some other lettuce mixture a couple cups of cruciferous

1:59.7

per day would be more in line what I would recommend and for a lot of them you want to steam

2:04.4

or saute them or stir fry them but the benefits of cruciferous are huge anti-tumor anti-cancer

2:14.1

anti-angio genesis it's basically a situation where the tumor has these blood vessels supplying

2:20.4

its nutrients and cruciferous has the capacity of shutting off the growth of these blood vessels

2:27.0

to the tumor starving them of nutrients there's nutrient benefits full late high vitamin C high

2:34.4

vitamin K1 potassium salinein calcium tons of phytonutrients lots of chlorophyll very very healthy for

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