What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ Having congratulated myself on sailing through the menopause with no hot flushes, I now find myself struck down with vaginal atrophy.
Menopause is not a disease or a state of oestrogen deficiency. It is an age-appropriate, natural decline in oestrogen levels. Even though alternative therapists accept this, they are still passing out ‘prescriptions’ for natural oestrogen and...
What’s a girl to do? Five recent studies have shown that soy is worthless for treating the symptoms of menopause.
Research from Australia shows that diet can play a crucial role in lowering women's risk of developing breast cancer. ...
New evidence suggests that eating lots of soya products while pregnant may increase the risk of breast cancer in female offspring. ...
Touted as the 'natural cure' for menopause, the high dose plant supplements may have strong oestrogenic effects on the body, with all the dangers of large doses of ordinary oestrogens. ...
* Eat the right foods. Eating foods rich in phytoestrogens can allieviate menopausal symptoms. All pulses, tofu and whole soy products (avoid soy protein isolates), nuts, flaxseed and other seeds, grains (rice, oats, wheat, barley, rye),
A reader wanted to know of any health risks associated with soya and phytoestrogens. It's a subject we've covered before, but it's worth a revisit. One reader has heard that the fermented forms of soy, such as miso, natto and tempeh, are the most...
SOYA: Why you might need to think again
In their clamour to promote HRT as a "natural" and therefore "healthy" hormone, the drug companies and the medical profession have conveniently overlooked that there are natural sources of estroge ...
