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Why too much of these nine super foods may lead to health problems.

All right, let's start with health problem number one from cruciferous vegetables.

Now, don't get me wrong, cruciferous vegetables are phenomenal for you in so many ways. They're sulfur containing vegetables and

sulfur is really one of the best things that we can get into our diet. But I see

people who eat cruciferous vegetables several times a day.

They have cauliflower rice, they have cauliflower mashed potatoes,

they have broccoli, they have bachchoy, they have kale, they have Swiss chard.

And I see gradually over the passage of a few months,

their thyroid becomes suppressed.

And it's such that when we back them off on their cruciferous

vegetables, their thyroid function returns to normal, so we know that in fact it was too many cruciferous vegetables and I see

this more and more because people have been told that this is a super food and you have to

eat it every day several times a day. Too much will

suppress your thyroid. And again I see patients six days a week I look at their

blood work every three months, so I can see when someone has changed what they're doing.

And I became very impressed about 10 years ago when people went on cruciferous vegetable kicks and their thyroid

got suppressed and when we removed those low and bald their thyroid

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