Soy Foods for Menopause Hot Flash Symptoms
Soy can be considered a first-line treatment for menopausal hot flash and night sweat symptoms.
If you missed the previous video, see Menopausal Hot Flashes Are Not Inevitable (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/menopausal-hot-flashes-are-not-inevitable).
What about soy and breast cancer? See my video Is Soy Healthy for Breast Cancer Survivors? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-soy-healthy-for-breast-cancer-survivors/).
I recently did a series on vaginal menopause symptoms, including:
• The Best Moisturizers and Lubricants for Vaginal Menopause Symptoms (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-moisturizers-and-lubricants-for-vaginal-menopause-symptoms)
• Hormone Treatment (Estrogen Pills and Creams) for Vaginal Menopause Symptoms (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/hormone-treatment-estrogen-pills-and-creams-for-vaginal-menopause-symptoms)
• Soy Milk for Vaginal Menopause Symptoms (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/soy-milk-for-vaginal-menopause-symptoms)
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foreign [Music] the reason why there isn't even a word for hot flash in Japanese as I explored my last video approximately 80 percent of perimenopausal and post-menopausal women surveyed and choose to try natural means to deal with symptoms and the single most common approach was soy but does it work outside of an Asian context soy milk maybe a greater source of isoflavones than soy foods and that seems already made for randomized trial against dairy milk or another plant milk control 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 as 70 compared to the control group but without a placebo control we're not sure how much of that is the placebo effect to truly blind study subjects soy isoflavones were extracted out and stuffed into capsules to be pinned against identical looking sugar pill Placebo capsules more than a dozen such clinical studies have been performed randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials and indeed the equivalent of about two servings of soy Foods a day worth reduced hot flash symptoms by about 20 more than Placebo and hot flash severity by around 25 percent more than Placebo compared to more like a 30 to 40 net reduction from estrogen hormone therapy soy isoflavones have also been shown to improve other menopausal concerns including vaginal dryness bone loss memory and cognitive functions more generally as well as depression there have been a few trials in which soy was pitted head to head against hormone therapy one found their efficacy comparable in terms of reducing hot flashes muscle and joint pain vaginal dryness in the other hormones work twice as well a 54 reduction in hot flash scores taking the standard estrogen progesterone combination...
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