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Soy milk and other soy products, including tofu, miso, tempeh, edamame, and the soybeans themselves, are high in such nutrients as fiber, iron, magnesium, potassium, protein, and zinc. Soybeans naturally contain a class of phytoestrogens called isoflavones.
Soy milk has anti-inflammatory effects, lowering C-reactive protein levels, has desirable effects on phosphorus metabolism compared to cow’s milk, significantly reduces free radical DNA damage compared to rice milk or cow’s milk, prevents bone loss in postmenopausal women when put to the test, and can…improve insulin resistance.
What happens if you give soy milk to women in Texas? As you can see at 3:29 in my video , circulating estrogen levels were cut in half. Since increased estrogen levels are “markers for high risk for breast cancer,” the effectiveness of soy in reducing estrogen levels may help explain why Chinese and Japanese women have such low rates of ...
In one study, for example, 90 percent of the breast cancer patients who ate the most soy phytoestrogens after diagnosis were still alive five years later, while half of those who ate little to no soy were dead. Soy consumption has also been shown to benefit our kidneys, which appear to handle plant protein very differently from animal protein ...
Of the two studies comparing soy phytoestrogens against hormones, one determined soy to be fairly comparable with regards to reducing hot flashes, muscle and joint pain, as well as vaginal dryness, compared to placebo, while the other found that soy did better than placebo but the estrogen and progesterone therapy exceeded both in effectiveness.
When you look at the nutrition facts label on soy milk, it says it has the same amount of calcium as cow milk. But is it absorbed as well? “Calcium absorption in…osteopenic [meaning low bone mineral density] post-menopausal women: an acute comparative study of fortified soymilk to cows’ milk.” Pretty self-explanatory.
But, a second study out of China, published the same year, found a significant association between soy milk intake and fibroids. That’s consistent with the three alarming case reports of women with symptomatic fibroids reporting “an unusually high intake of soy milk,” or “regularly consuming excessive amounts of soy,” or “extremely ...
Soy milk consumption has been associated with fewer hot flashes and night sweats, and skim milk with worse menopausal symptoms. But when actually put to the test against each other, there does not appear to be any difference. There have been studies showing that randomizing women to soy milk can reduce hot flashes and vaginal symptoms as much ...
Soy milk was compared to a transdermal progesterone cream. The control group lost significant bone mineral density in their spine over the two-year study period. But, the progesterone group lost significantly less, and the two glasses of soy milk a day group ended up actually better than when they started.
Last year, a group of researchers calculated that girls drinking just, like, two cups of soy milk a week start developing breasts a average of eight months later than those who drank hardly any. Soy failed to have an effect, however, on timing of puberty in boys. Please consider volunteering to help out on the site.