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Pro and con of soy estrogen

The estrogen hormones contained within soy products have been the subject of an ongoing scientific debate for years.

Soybean foods such as tempeh, soybeans, soy milk, and miso may be the best foods around for relieving the symptoms of menopause and protecting women against breast cancer. They may also help protect men against prostate cancer.
Some research suggests the isoflavones (genistein and daidzein) a class of plant estrogens contained within soybeans, are beneficial for health.
The soy isoflavone genistein and daidzein are similar to 17 beta-estradiols, but are 100,000 times weaker in estrogenic activity and are therefore weak estrogens.
Although these isoflavones are weak estrogens, people who eat a lot of it can have their blood level of isoflavones as mush as 10,000 times higher than those who do not consume soy.

What are the bad components in soy?

The isoflavones from soy is used in the manufacture of insecticides. This should leave us wondering whether it can be very healthy to the human body when it does the exact opposite to bugs and insects.

Cancer comes from having too much estrogen, a condition medically referred to as estrogen dominance.

Unfortunately clinical trials have been ambiguous, and in some cases extremely contradictory. Opposing studies imply that isoflavones could be harmful and produce negative effects on the human body.

They say that high concentrations of isoflavones in the body can have a significant cumulative estrogenic and toxic effect, especially when they are exposed to organs that have sensitive estrogen receptors sites such as the breast, uterus, and thyroid.

Estrogen dominance is associated to irritability and mood swings, fat gain from the waist down, fibrocystic breast disease and uterine (fibromas).
Pros and cons are continuing to arise over soy products.

With all this controversy, we can only hope the ongoing research of soy estrogen within the medical community will produce encouraging conclusions.

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FACTS ON SOY ESTROGEN:

Soybeans contain isoflavones (daidzein and genistein), which help reduce cholesterol levels, fight cancer, increase bone density, and reduce menopausal symptoms.


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Vitamin C benefits

orangeIt is impossible overestimate Vitamin C benefits.

It works as an antioxidant (unlike antioxidants vitamin E, beta-carotene, and CoEnzyme Q10, which reduce oxidation damage, vitamin C works preemptively, intercepting the oxidants that initiate the free-radical cycle) is needed for the manufacture of neurotransmitters and cell structures, helps preserve the elasticity of the skin and capillaries, protects the lungs by preventing oxygen from converting into peroxides, boosts the immune system, helps wounds heal faster, helps the intestine absorb iron, lowers blood cholesterol, protects the body against the effects of pollutants (particularly the metals lead, mercury, and aluminum) and chemical toxins (such as formaldehyde, organic solvents, and pesticides), protects against bacteria and viruses, protects against heart and blood diseases, protects against heart attacks, reduces anxiety, and aids in restful sleep.

Additionally, vitamin C, a natural antihistamine, increases alertness and mental functioning, may help safeguard against and reduce the symptoms of colds and flu, helps build collagen (the connective tissue in the body), and diminishes the duration and severity of herpes blister outbreaks. It also helps regenerate vitamin E after the latter has done its own job of eliminating free radicals.

With vitamin E, it can counteract the effects of a fatty meal, especially damage done to blood vessels from high cholesterol. According to some studies, students with high vitamin C levels did better on IQ tests than those with lower levels.

Food Sources of Vitamin C: Bean sprouts, berries, cauliflower, citrus fruits, liver, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, green leafy vegetables.

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Why We Need Vitamin K?

Vitamin K is essential for making the blood clots that quickly stop the bleeding whenever you injure yourself. This fat-soluble vitamin actually comes in three different forms.

First, there's Vitamin K1, or phylloquinone. This is the form of Vitamin K found in plant foods. Next, there's Vitamin K2 (you were expecting some other number?), also called menaquinone. This is the form friendly bacteria in your intestines make for you. If you guessed that the last form would be called Vitamin K3, you're absolutely right. This is the artificial form, also called menadione. All our Vitamin K ends up in liver, where it's used to make some of the substances that make our blood clot.

Vitamin K is mostly needed to help you stop bleeding, but it has some other jobs as well. The most important is the role Vitamin K1 plays in building bones. Vitamin K is needed to help hold onto the calcium in our bones and make sure it's getting to the right place.
There's also some important research on Vitamin K and cancer.

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