The history begins in Japan: the apparent immunity of the Japanese women to some menopause disorders.
The Japanese women have a late menopause, without hot flushes, nor cardiac diseases, less osteoporosis, less cancers of the breast, disease influenced by the female hormones.
The scientists wondered whether food did not play a protective part.
Indeed the Japanese women, when they emigrate in the United States, often have the same symptoms as the American women.
Their conclusion: the source of this quality of life would be the soya that Japanese women consume a lot.
Soya contains natural hormones, phyto-strogenes called "isoflavones". Present in certain plants (soya, tea, chick-peas, lentils, alfalfa, clover...), these phytohormones are able to compensate partially for an ovarian failure, and to dam up the increase in cholesterol.
However, the women whose strogens are in full output have neither cardiac problems, nor hot flushes, and a well hydrated and tonic skin.
Whereas the Asian people absorb between 25 and 100 Mg per day, our daily contributions do not exceed 5 Mg.
Thus, these natural hormones are useful at when the first hot flushes appear, often before the end of the periods.
It is also a good solution if one does not want or cannot take hormonal treatment after the menopause, in case of a former cancer of the breast for example...
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