Soy for Hot Flashes
Italian researchers at the University of Bologna - don’t let the name influence you - report that women in a study who received soy supplements had 45% fewer hot flashes.
Apparently it’s the phytoestrogens in soy that cool the hot flashes. Italian researchers say soy supplements could be used in place of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
Read the article at Third Age
[…] with night sweats and hot flashes, wondering if they signaled the beginning of menopause. “Try soy supplements”, I told her confidently, having read and written about research that indicates soy phytoestrogens […]
By Fifty-Something Women » Lean Into the Learning Curve on February 19th, 2007 at 2:59 pm