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Flax Seeds

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An article on web says . anti various cancer, anti Diabetes(reversal). Have nearly every day on my porridge. 🙂
 
Love them for bread making in the machine - different taste but makes good bread.
 
Just grinding some up to help bind the burgers I am making for lunch :D
 
I've only ever used the oil as a medium for my pigments when painting. Maybe I should consider using them internally as well as externally?
 
Always have ground linseed (flaxseed) on my porridge every day as well. It's good stuff but it's not reversed my diabetes yet. 😉

(£1.99 for 250g in Aldi).
 
Matt Cycle said:
Always have ground linseed (flaxseed) on my porridge every day as well. It's good stuff but it's not reversed my diabetes yet. 😉

(£1.99 for 250g in Aldi).
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Yes, I'm still waiting....
 
I've heard contradictory reports that they either increase or decrease oestrogen levels - and the former is quite a bad thing, for men.
 
DeusXM said:
I've heard contradictory reports that they either increase or decrease oestrogen levels - and the former is quite a bad thing, for men.
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Ok, I'm missing something here. I thought you had to have, erm, ovaries to have oestrogen levels? So what else in the body produces oestrogen that could affect men? It's been a long time since I did biology at school...
 
Oestrogen is also produced in body fat and the brain in both genders. One of theorised reasons why obese men suffer many health problems, aside from the basic issues caused by too much fat, is that they produce more oestrogen (because they've more fat), which then accelerates weight gain even further and disrupts their hormonal balance.

'Moobs' are one of the signs of elevated oestrogen in men.

My understanding is that flax seeds contain high levels of plant oestrogens, but I've not been able to find a source to conclusively say whether this is good or bad. Some sources say your body uses plant oestrogens as it would regular oestrogen (thus increasing oestrogen effects overall), while others say your body can't use plant oestrogens but that they bind to the oestrogen receptors, blocking them off and reducing the overal oestrogen impact.
 
They feel like they are good for you ! That's a good thing in my book 🙂🙂🙂. If you read everything that you put in your gob, you would not eat anything 😱
 
Good for the plumbing as well!
 
I've been eating it for quite a while and not noticed any er, bodily changes. :D
 
Do you grind the seeds or eat them whole? Ground ones are better for you and provide plenty of roughage.
 
I buy the already ground ones (£1.99 from Aldi). I read somewhere they can turn rancid fairly quickly once ground so I presume that's why the ground ones are usually in vacuum sealed foil packs. Yes, good for fibre and omega 3 although I already have plenty of fibre in my diet. It's the possible effects of the oestrogen mentioned by Deus I'm more bothered about. :D
 
Moobs can be attractive you know!

Yes the ready milled stuff does go rancid. It's the high fat content and once released from the seed it does have a limited shelf life.

I mill mine in a coffee grinder.

Makes great pancakes when added to beaten eggs.
 
Snap Annette :D
 
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