Folks,

Over the past two months I'd started eating a daily serving of a low carb
breakfast cereal high in soy proteins.  Well, during the past couple weeks I
started hotflashing like crazy, even though I was taking my usual (very low)
dose of estrogen.

Reading some postings here and following up on a study they pointed to, it
struck me that perhaps the soy in the cereal was somehow blocking my
estrogen receptors.  I cut out the cereal this week  while not changing my
estrogen dosing regimen and lo and behold, by last night the hotflashing had
stopped.  My blood sugar is looking a lot better too--when my estrogen drops
my blood sugar rises.

Why should you care?  Because a lot of the new "low carb" products are jam
packed full of soy which may be having subtle effects on your own hormone
receptors.  Both men and women's bodies use estrogen for many functions, not
all of them having to do with female stuff.

So too much soy upsetting natural hormone balances might be another thing
that could, perhaps, contribute to stalls and/or subtle emotional changes.

It's worth a thought, anyway!

--
Jenny  - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c
5.2.
Cut the carbs to respond to my  email address!

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