This essay sheds light on the dangers of consuming cruciferous vegetables, elucidates how consuming cruciferous vegetables can cause hypothyoidism, explicates how to minimize goitrogen intake when eating cruciferous vegetables, demystifies the goitrogen rich foods that you should avoid eating, reveals how to optimize thyroid health, and delineates how to optimize your overall health.. Moreover, the myriad of simple to prepare and palatable healthy food recipes for longevity are demystified and the plethora of deadly disease causing foods that you should always desist from ever considering devouring are revealed in this essay. Furthermore, how to substantially mitigate risks for succumbing to contracting lethal chronic diseases by embracing a salubrious, wholesome, heart healthy, brain healthy, kidney healthy, anticancer, antidiabetic, nutrient dense, alkaline, antioxidant rich, anti-inflammatory, raw fruitarian diet is expounded upon in this essay. The dangers of profusely consuming cruciferous vegetables are often grossly overlooked. Cruciferous vegetables are replete with goitrogens which can severely undermine thyroid health and elicit a host of deleterious health issues. Having an underactive thyroid can be devastating to the individual's overall health. Cruciferous vegetables include "arugula, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, radish and turnips". Cruciferous vegetables are often erroneously touted as superfoods even though they can induce hypothyroidism if consumed in large quantities due to being rich in goitrogens. Hypothyroidism can undermine every facet of your health, adversely impact your ability to function, and can even induce a Myxedema coma. Much to the chagrin of the health conscious individual, goitrogens can be in the form of goitrins, flavonoids, and thiocyanates. Additionally, cruciferous vegetables, starchy vegetables, and even soy based food products can be replete with goitrogens. Profusely consuming goitrogenic foods can undermine thyroid function and subsequently elicit a host of health issues. In other words, the dangers of profusely consuming foods that are high in goitrogens can even extend to eliciting hypothyroidism. "Goitrogens can reduce the thyroid's ability to produce the hormones your body needs to function normally. They are more likely to even more adversely impact people who already have poor thyroid function". Health conscious individual who are keen on optimizing their thyroid health will outright avoid the consumption of foods that are high in goitrogens Goitrogen can undermine thyroid health in a multitude of disparate ways. "Foods that contain goitrogens are able to disrupt thyroid function by inhibiting your body's ability to use iodine. More specifically, goitrogens can block the process by which iodine is incorporated into the key thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). They also inhibit the actual release of thyroid hormone by your thyroid gland and disrupt the peripheral conversion of the thyroid storage hormone T4 into the active thyroid hormone T3. In very large quantities, goitrogens can cause a goiter or an enlarged thyroid". Goiters can create a feeling of tightness in your throat, coughing, hoarseness and may make breathing and swallowing more challenging. The adverse effects of consuming g foods that are high in goitrogens are not limited to the aforementioned adversities. "Goitrogens may interfere with thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), which helps the thyroid gland produce hormones. When the thyroid's function is disrupted, it has trouble producing the hormones that regulate your metabolism. This can lead to problems controlling body temperature, heart rate, protein production, calcium levels in the blood, and how your body utilizes fats and carbohydrates". In other words, nothing salubrious can ensue from having an underactive thyroid. Foods that are high in goitrogens are notorious for undermining thyroid health.