As we age, our bodies gradually lack estrogen hormones. That is why women have symptoms such as dark spots, freckles, dry skin, and shrinking breasts, brittle and messy hair… Estrogen helps maintain femininity, maintain curves, and softness for women’s bodies.
We often hear that soybeans are a food that helps supplement natural estrogen. That is true. However, using soybeans incorrectly can be disadvantageous. Soybeans need to be soaked until they sprout to help remove nutrients inhibiting substances. Moreover, eating a lot of soybeans without balancing with other nutrient groups can be disadvantageous for people with hypothyroidism. Therefore, besides soybeans, you can also refer to some popular and easy-to-use foods below to supplement your own diet:
Sesame seeds
Sesame seeds are a type of seed rich in phytoestrogens similar to soybeans and provide a rich amount of fiber for the body, along with some good fats like omega 3. Sesame seeds can also be used to make roasted sesame salt, sprinkle on cakes, make sesame fillings for cakes… Some experiments have shown that supplementing about 50g of sesame seeds per day can increase hormone activity. You can process sesame seeds by roasting them, grinding them into small pieces, and mixing them with arrowroot powder.
Cabbage soup
This is a common type of vegetable in Vietnamese meals. Therefore, you will find it easy to use them. Cabbage soup is rich in fiber, vitamins, and helps support hormone activity. However, to have good cabbage soup, you should prepare it simply by steaming it rather than frying it with a lot of oil.
Avocado
Avocado is also a natural food that contains many nutrients and substances such as potassium, vitamin B, E, folic acid, beneficial for the body. In addition, avocado also helps stimulate female hormone reproduction, especially estrogen. The beta-carotene in avocado also helps prevent atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases.
Mung beans
Mung beans are a common type of bean, similar to soybeans, and mung beans also have the function of detoxifying and lowering blood pressure. Mung beans are also relatively easy to process, such as making ground mung bean sweet soup, mung beans cooked with pomelo rind, boiled mung beans, sticky rice dishes…
Leafy greens
To support estrogen enhancement in the body, you should pay attention to adding these foods to your meals, of course, not just eating them alone but also balancing them with other types of foods.