Soy Phytoestrogens for Menopause Hot Flashes

Does soy food consumption explain why Japanese women appear so protected from hot flush symptoms?

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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[Cookie]

During perimenopause I drank 2 soy milk smoothies every day to alleviate hot flashes. It worked really well.

[cityzenjane]

My symptoms were TERRIBLE until I added soy milk to my smoothies....it worked SO well.

[JanetLouise]

When I started having hot flashes, I started eating tofu and using plain soy milk with no additives (found it at Trader Joe's) and my hot flashes went away.  When I would decrease the tofu, the hot flashes came back.  Eating soy worked for me!  Now 14 years later, I still eating and drink it regularly and so far no cancer, heart disease, etc.

[dimyssg]

True! Plant based diet helped me with symptoms related to menopause. I have increased soy products in the past two years and it really does work:)👍🏼

[jeanc]

Thank you, Doctor <3 It sucks there is so much ignorance and misinformation/understanding about soy !!

[sherryament]

I am 51, I eat a vegan whole food diet and still had CRAZY bad hot flashes until adding additional soy milk now they are really gone. My question is does the benefits change when soy milk is heated?

[Albopepper]

Soy to the rescue! Thanks Dr Greger. :-D

[Falafelzebub]

Menopause is perfectly natural. But what do most women do? Run straight to the doctor for a prescription for horse pee, double their cow milk consumption, and spread negative propaganda about the humble soy bean. Sally Fallon must be very proud.

[GaryMcKinnonUFO]

Flashes, flushes it's horrible apparently. Gonna get ma girl on the beans!

[goodtasteandgrace]

Greatly reducing caffeine stopped my hot flashes. 😊

[WeCelebrateEatingPlants]

This is really important information, thank you 🥦❤ everyone should know these things

[madametrafficjam]

I want "Put it to the test!" on a mug.

[EliasAlucard]

I'm male, and I'm a big believer in soy phytoestrogens, in fact, even my multivitamin supplement contains 40 mg soy isoflavones, great stuff!

[VeganWalk]

I wonder if telling people they're going to get diseases from eating animals has a placebo effect, I've been trying...

[Mh]

Could you do a video on tahini (sesame seeds) and phytoestrogens for women under 50? Also maybe look into the factor of Asian food culture and their use of phytoestrogen rich foods vs their health (more specifically women under 50)?

[lizzieclay]

Dr Greger, are you saying it’s better to take or eat the soy than to take progesterone?

[katja]

OMG I was just wondering about this the other day

[は私です彼の名前]

Thank you Dr. Greger for all of your hard work, and thank you Most High for making such wonderful things for us...And also...why aren’t we studying the power of placebos?

[kathyfausett]

So, placebo 20% and soy 40%.  Isn't half of that 40% also placebo?  Nobody mentions the fact that even if you're getting the "real" pill, it is also having a placebo effect.  I never understood why placebos were used in the first place, since they're not really inert,  Why not just compare the soy group to a non-soy group? That way you avoid any complications.

[laurasand]

Hey. I’m only 19 and I suffer from really really bad hot flashes. It started after I started taking ADD and anti depressants medicine. Do you think that eating more soy could help on this? I’m already eating a plant based diet. I have asked my doctor and psychiatrist, but they said that all there was to do is chance medicine, but this is the first medicine that has worked, and I don’t want a relapse.