It seems that, for hot flashes, soy could be the first potential cure, as it effects may be able to get rid of the condition that affects many women during their menopausal time.
Unfortunately, the hot flashes and soy relation is not really the same for the bodies of every woman, but certain particular conditions must apply for this bean to work in the way of alleviating this type of condition most often associated with menopause.
According to Science Daily, there's a new study regarding hot flashes and soy, called "A cross-sectional study of equol producer status and self-reported vasomotor symptoms" and first published in Menopause, a magazine created by The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) and which aims to promote women's health issues for those "in midlife and beyond."
The hot flashes and soy study states that those women who can naturally produce equol, a soy metabolite, can benefit from this bean once they've reached the hot flashes stage in menopause. However, it seems that this includes only a minority of women, from 20 to 30 percent of those in North America and Europe.
According to University Herald, the hot flashes and soy paper came to be after research in the Seattle, Washington area. The researchers responsible for the study surveyed over 350 women, all of them between the ages of 45 and 55 - they were part of the healthcare system in the area, and the investigators found out which of them were going through hormone therapy and also consumed foods with soy, three times a week at a minimum.
The subjects of the study of hot flashes and soy recorded their symptoms, saying how often they had them, how many, how bothersome and the level of intensity of their hot flashes as well as their night sweats. The women in the study also went through measuring of these symptoms in a skin monitor.
As the hot flashes and soy study went on, participants were also asked for urine samples, and the testing of these showed which of the women produced equol, a metabolized version of the soy isoflavone diazden created by bacteria in the gut.
Now that this is known, there could be a new wave of equol supplements for those women who don't naturally produce the compound once they're eating soy.
