Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Detox with Cruciferous Veggies! | The Hidden Hormone Saboteur in Your Gut

16 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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Short video segment by Aaron Hartman, MD advising dietary strategies to support hormone detoxification. He recommends eating cruciferous vegetables (examples given: broccoli, cauliflower, sauerkraut, Brussels sprouts, arugula) because they contain sulfur-based compounds that support detoxification—particularly of hormones—and notes this becomes more important approaching perimenopause.

You can also eat certain foods that actually help you detoxify. These are your cruciferous vegetables. These are things like broccoli, cauliflower, sauerkraut, Brussels sprouts. Arugula is actually one of them. The favorite at our house for eating that. They have certain types of sulfur based chemicals that are super important for detoxification, especially hormones. These are all things you can do that can help improve hormone function. And the older you get, the closer you get to perimenopause, the bigger deal it is to keep these levels more controlled.