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Hormone
Replacement Therapy (HRT)
Hormones and women's sexuality
The journal Menopause* reports that the adding of
soy proteins to the diet provides many of the benefits of HRT without all
of the risks. Researchers revealed that giving women subjects 20 grams of
soy protein containing the vital ingredient isoflavones daily, lowered
their blood pressure (helping to prevent heart disease,) and showed
significant improvement in the severity, but not the frequency of hot
flashes, plus alleviated other female symptoms of low estrogen.
And we add, the isoflavones in soy decrease
cancer risk, whereas HRT increases it.
*Spring l999; vol. 6, pgs. 7-13, by Washburn et al.
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