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ISOFLAVONES Plant estrogens--soy foods are a particularly rich source--seem to have some of the same effects as estrogen. Benefits may include...
Meanwhile, lab studies on rats have alternately suggested that isoflavones inhibit and stimulate breast-cancer tumor growth. Recent studies showing that estrogen in hormone replacement therapy actually increases the risk of breast cancer and heart disease in postmenopausal women have scared some women...
...really as beneficial as people think? Researchers have focused on one particular group of compounds in soy: the isoflavones, which are also found in lower concentrations in other legumes. Isoflavones are phytoestrogens, or plant estrogens, that weakly imitate the body's estrogen--sometimes they have an estrogenic effect, other times anti-estrogenic. They are thought to help stave off breast cancer, lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease, among other things. Just last month a study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggested that isoflavones may also reduce the risk of endometrial cancer...
These words were my introduction to my summer internship at The Hill, a congressional newspaper. I had just walked into the newsroom and met the only other female intern there. I did not realize it then, but I soon learned that there is a striking absence of estrogen among the nation’s media elite...
Intriguingly, the parts of the Women's Health Initiative that look at the possible long-term health benefits of taking estrogen alone--without progestin--are continuing. That suggests that estrogen alone may yet prove beneficial. (Only women who have undergone a hysterectomy can safely take estrogen alone; estrogen without progestin increases the risk of uterine cancer...