estrogen dominance and phytoestrogen

Hello Dr Lam,

I was just woundering what is your experience with adding phytoestrogen(lignans from flax seeds by exemple) in the context of oestrogen dominence?

There suppose to help balance things out by saturating oestrogen receptors and therefore help remove "bad Oestrogen"... but arent they also an additionnal dose of oetrogen and in that particular case, one should avoid it?

I can understand why a perimenopausal women might benefit from it but in the context of oestrogen dominance and adrenal fatigue it just does not make sense to me to add and additionnal dose of oestrogen...

What does your experience and knowledge tells you in that particular topic ? Does the possible benefit of phytoestrogen matches the theory, clinically? Tweet