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FAQ's
General Uses – Soya
Isoflavones
Isoflavones are Phytoestrogen, compounds of plant
origin that have effects similar to the female hormone
oestrogen, though 400 times less powerful.
If an Isoflavone or one of its metabolites attaches
to an oestrogen receptor, it can block the more
powerful effect of an Isoflavones demonstrate antiangiogenic
effects on tumors. Angiogenesis (new blood vessel
growth) is required for tumors to grow, and genistein
appears to block that process and thus helps maintain
normal good health..
Isoflavones are one of a group of biologically active
compounds termed flavonoids (like pycnogenol from
pine bark & proanthocyanidins from grapes).
Flavonoids are recognized as having anti-inflammatory,
ant allergic, antiviral, ant carcinogenic, anti
neoplastic, antimicrobial, anti helminthic, liver
protective, kidney protective, anti thrombotic and
antihormonal effects. They are potent antioxidants,
free radical scavengers and metal chelators. They
facilitate vitamin C stabilization and enhance vitamin
C absorption.
What nutritional secrets
do ancient soybeans hold for women today?
Many researchers believe their most beneficial components
are a group of nutrients called Isoflavones, related
to the more common flavonoids found universally
in plants. Flavonoids help regulate the growth of
plants and protect them from stress and the damaging
effects of ultraviolet radiation.
Earlier this year, Catherine Rice-Evans, Ph.D.,
of the International Antioxidant Research Centre
at Guy's Hospital, London, reported that genistein,
the most studied isoflavone, had the greatest antioxidant
activity of these compounds. Daidzein was the second
most powerful antioxidant Isoflavone. Antioxidants,
of course, protect the body from cell-damaging molecules
known as free radicals, which accelerate the aging
process, initiate many cancers, and exacerbate diseases
in general.
As an antioxidant, genistein plays multiple roles.
It boosts the body's production of super oxide dismutase
(SOD), another powerful antioxidant. Genistein also
functions a in a similar way to SOD, preventing
cancer-causing mutations to deoxyribonucleic acid
(DNA), according to research conducted at the Mount
Sinai School of Medicine, New York.
But genistein and the other Isoflavones protect
against breast cancer in other ways as well.
"The Isoflavones contained within soy are among
the most versatile biopharmaceuticals known to man,"
Stephen Holt, M.D., of Fairfield, N.J., told Let's
Live. Holt, author of Soya for Health: The Definitive
Medical Guide (Mary Ann Liebert Publishers, 1996),
added, "These are safe foods that have been
used for thousands of years in Asia. Isoflavones
account, in part, for the major differences in disease
between East and West."
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