Word: phytoestrogens
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...older alternatives include a long list of natural remedies--vitamins, minerals, herbs and various supplements containing phytoestrogens (plant estrogens that seem to have estrogen-like effects in humans). Lately, phytoestrogens have become popular alternatives to standard HRT. Sales of supplements that contain soy isoflavones, a form of phytoestrogen, tripled from 1998 to 1999. Some women also take vitamin E for hot flashes, while others are turning to remedies based on such exotics as black cohosh, flaxseed, red clover, dong quai and wild...
...phytoestrogens offer boomers a better bargain? Many women clearly think so. "Close to a natural wonder drug," says UCLA breast-cancer surgeon Dr. Susan Love in her recently published Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book (Random House, $25). At 49, Love, a vocal and controversial critic of hormone-replacement therapy, has entered perimenopause. To cope, she exercises daily, adds phytoestrogen-rich foods like soybeans and flaxseed to her diet and doses herself with black cohosh, an herbal source of phytoestrogens that comes in liquid or tablet form...
...still there," said Art Hancock, Executive Vice President of Jack Daniel Distillery, theTennessee sour-mash whisky maker. "In the past two years, we have had so much adverse publicity about the effects of hard liquor, it is almost like having Prohibition back." His worry is premature. According to Gavaler, phytoestrogen is also prevalent in wheat, rice and hops, as well as peanut, soybean and olive...
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