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Estrogen floating around one's blood stream will not affect any symptoms at all. The hormone ha s to bind and then it has to trigger reactions. There are many estrogens and they act through slightly different latch and key mechanisms on the surface of the cells, known alpha or beta receptors for estrogen . Plant estrogens or Isoflavonoids also called Phytoestrogens have a very unique set of physiology. They are in our diet from soy, grains, fruits, and vegetables. These plant estrogens tend b ind more tightly to the beta receptors (ERβ). This is a very attractive property as this type of estrogen inhibits breast cell growth as well as the stimulatory effects of ERα. Soy in the diet, in the right quantities can help decrease cardiovascular disease, decrease ostoporotic fractures and even lower breast cancer rates. If you want to consume more soy, think about the Asian Diet they get their soybean from Tofu, Tempeh, Miso. The soyfood is not metabolized the same by all of us...

Women have been wondering, how do we eat to control hot flashes. Diet, the composition of that diet, your overall nutritional health, and your hormonal state all factor into whether you are going to have moderate or severe hot flashes. For some women this is merely adjusting her diet to be a bit less bothered; for other women eating right to control hot flashes can be a matter of significant health consequences. The Newest data released in October of 2012 from the Women's Health Initiative gives clues as to how diet affects your hot flashes. The diet can affect how you work with a hot flash that is occurring now, as well as the overall numbers of hot flashes you will have in the future. Gyno's have always recommended cooling water, and generally to be well hydrated when you are having hot flashes. Water to your diet is always good, and that is one way we should feed our hot flashes. Other gynos have recommended adding soy to the diet, but high soy intake has not consistently...

Estrogen treats hot flashes successfully and can reduce hot flashes by 80-90%. Having an alternative to hot flash treatment that is non-hormonal is important to women. There is a growing list of alternatives to hormone therapy that are available to women who either must avoid hormones, or just want to avoid hormone therapy. Black cohosh, red clover, St Johns's Wort are all alternatives to hormone therapy that have in studies been shown to be better than placebo for the treatment of hot flashes, as are the SSRI anti-depressants.The use of antidepressants, and now the use of the medications gabapeptin and pregabalin also can help relieve hot flashes. Let's compare and contrast some of these therapies. As a rule of thumb even placebo treatments work 25% of the time, and these estrogen alternatives work about 60% of the time. The number one prescribed estrogen, one that has been around for many decades is Premarin. Patients will tell me that they are on "the estrogen...

As the number one gynecologic deadly cancer ovarian cancer is a very serious disease. Treatments are more successful than they used to be but it is sill, best to avoid, if this would be possible. All the standard anti-cancer strategies are important: don't smoke for starters. Specific advices to avoid ovarian cancer by: taking birth control pills, having babies, breast feeding your babies, normalizing your weight, having the right genetics, or even have your ovaries removed. None of these strategies is perfect, but many cases can be avoided all together. Now there's another possible protective factor: some soy consumption. There is some reason to believe this is more than just a quirk of a type of diet studied.New studies tells us that there is basis for believing soy foods can protect as against ovarian cancer.

I like to think of this as a "pulse" a day, since soy beans are supposed to be pulses!Tofu is made from soy much like we make cheese from milk. Tofu is essentially the coagulation of soy milk. Since it takes some treatment to get the right consistency it actually often continues fairly high levels of calcium and magnesium to it’s already high content of protein and significant amounts of iron. I used to profess that a pulse a day would keep the doctor away. However, what it isn’t is a pulse, as this term is reserved for beans used in their dried form, although soybeans are legumes, they are primarily harvested for oil, so the pulse term isn’t really correct.