Free Diet advice by Narkissos & Novastepp: Intro to Performance Nutrition 101

[C_Bino]

Nova you are eating a lot of raw broccoli and cauliflower. Be careful, this will actually slow your metabolism. I would always steam these, they contain goitrogens which actually bind to the iodine receptor on your thryoid...why are they called goitrogens? Cuz honest to god they are so good at blocking mimicing iodine and binding to the thyroid that you can actually get a goiter as your thyroid swells to try to compensate.

Steam em and deactivate the goitrogens in all cases imo.

[novastepp]

Nova you are eating a lot of raw broccoli and cauliflower. Be careful, this will actually slow your metabolism. I would always steam these, they contain goitrogens which actually bind to the iodine receptor on your thryoid...why are they called goitrogens? Cuz honest to god they are so good at blocking mimicing iodine and binding to the thyroid that you can actually get a goiter as your thyroid swells to try to compensate.

Steam em and deactivate the goitrogens in all cases imo.

good call on that man; never heard that before. Any ideas on best steaming practices without a steamer? Maybe I should just buy one, I do eat veggies quite often. In any case, any way to do it without one?

[novastepp]

Nova you are eating a lot of raw broccoli and cauliflower. Be careful, this will actually slow your metabolism. I would always steam these, they contain goitrogens which actually bind to the iodine receptor on your thryoid...why are they called goitrogens? Cuz honest to god they are so good at blocking mimicing iodine and binding to the thyroid that you can actually get a goiter as your thyroid swells to try to compensate.

Steam em and deactivate the goitrogens in all cases imo.

p.s. that was tunedx's diet... but I still do eat a lot of raw broccoli, funny how I figured I had posted a diet or something.

[C_Bino]

p.s. that was tunedx's diet... but I still do eat a lot of raw broccoli, funny how I figured I had posted a diet or something.

LOL sorry man thought it was yours but ya the whole raw broccoli thing was something new to me up to a few months ago until I learned it in my food biochemistry class lol.

But ya no real great way to steam without a steamer. Definitely dont use saran wrap in the microwave as someone else suggested. Thats gonna cause more probs than the broccoli lol.

I would sometimes put a bowl of water in the microwave and wrap the broccoli in paper towel and do it for like 30 seconds. But real steaming is the best, I have a rice cooker that doubles as a steamer so I kinda got lucky there brotha.

[xlxBigSexyxlx]

Speaking of steamers. I got a bamboo steamer.
Just place it over hot pot of water, for how ever long you want to steam them.
My personal favorite is asparagus, but it makes urine smell funky lol