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Fava Beans: Great For Hormone Replacement With Anti-Cancer Potential
Monday, January 07, 2008 by: Kal Sellers
Key concepts: hormone replacement, hormones and anti-cancer foods.
(NewsTarget) Two years ago this month a good friend of ours joined us
for a humble beginning of our natural nutrition and whole food
preparation classes. She was one of those students who just took
everything and ran with it. She lost about 15 pounds, her bowels started
moving better and she looked ten years younger.
For all of this, she complained that she was being driven crazy with hot
flashes and did not want to go on hormone therapy. She decided to come
see me professionally.
I spoke with her and quizzed her about her diet. She had been following
our health program exactly. I figured that she just needed an infusion
of plant based hormones.
I explained to her that plant hormones are the best protection in the
world. They are large, weak structures that will fill up all the hormone
binding sites and keep them satisfied as needed without ever reaching
toxic strength. When your body releases hormones erratically (as happens
during many times of life but especially during menopause) those
hormones can be absent or can be at toxic levels. With plant hormones
binding up the receptor sites all the time, you never even know that the
levels are up or down and the potential toxic levels (which can cause
estrogen-dependent cancer) are never reached.
The best part of all this, I told her, is that your body will stop
working so hard at meeting hormonal needs and will get to rest and
re-set itself to a new level of health.
I explained that if we all ate natural diets all the time, that we could
not avoid huge amounts of plant hormones every day and that our bodies
really are designed to get most of their hormone needs from the diet.
She, of course, wanted to know what to do.
I told her about fava beans. These are the most estrogen-dense food
known. When sprouted, they become far more so, 3-30 times more.
I had her sprout dry fava beans (which took one afternoon in a bowl of
water) and then low-heat them. Low heating is a technique perfected in
Traci's
Transformational Kitchen Cookbook and Traci's Transformational Health
Principles, which allows the bean to stay alive (in fact it will grow
during the process and in the fridge thereafter) while softening the
hard exterior.
She was then to blend them with a little extra virgin olive oil and
seasonings to make a smooth savory "soup". She was to eat at least 1/4
cup every day.
She actually blended them with tomatoes and onions when she did it for
real. She had it for dinner and then that night she got sick. I have
never seen this before or since. She stayed sick for that night and was
a little queasy the next day. After that she stopped having hot flashes.
She went a whole year without having hot flashes and then, when they
began again, she began eating 1/2 cup of edamame three or four times per
week. She has been hot-flash free since that time.
Often today I read articles that are leading the readers to believe that
soy is the premier source of phyto-estrogens. Not so at all. Further,
many people are reacting to soy as a food reaction and their health gets
damaged by it. Besides this, soy protein (which is what many people are
using) is a by-product of making soybean oil and is very chemical rich.
Edamame, a green soybean, has none of the drawbacks and most people will
not react to it even if they are allergic to dry soybeans and soy
products.
Still, fava beans are the best source. They are usually experienced as
tasty and are easy to digest. When sprouted, they become the best
phyto-estrogen supplement known.
I have given fava beans to many people having hormone problems and I
find them reliable relief. As with all sources of phyto-estrogens, fava
beans are also somewhat anti-inflammatory.
Herbally (after all, this is an herbal medicine column), we use blessed
thistle, black cohosh, kudzu root, wild yam, sarsaparilla, wheatgrass,
red clover blossoms, alfalfa, vitex, dong quai and many others for
herbal hormone foods. Most of these contain phyto-estrogens, wild yam
and sarsaparilla contain steroidal saponins which are hormone building
blocks.
I no longer reach first for the herbal aids, however, but recommend
sprouted, low-heated fava bean soup.
About the author
Kal Sellers, MH is a lifelong student and practitioner of the natural
healing arts.
Kal is a Master Herbalist, a Massage Therapist, Technician of the Rolf
Method of Structural Integration, Iridologist, Mind-Body Medicine
Practitioner, Mental Re-programmer, Life Coach, Natural Nutritionist,
Reflexologist and more.
Kal is currently attending Life University in preparation for
chiropractic school.
Kal currently operates and maintains www.KalsSchool.com, an on-line
school for natural healing and herbal medicine.
Kal also maintains www.BestFoodist.com as the website for the
distribution of his and his wife's books on natural nutrition and
companion recipe book (Traci's Transformational Kitchen Cookbook and
Traci's Transformational Health Principles).
Kal and Traci have five children, the last three of which were delivered
at home, the last by Kal. They live now in Powder Springs, GA where they
maintain live classes on food and medicine for anyone choosing to master
medical independence and life-long optimal health!
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