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RE: Food Supplements #4: Soy isoflavones - A natural saviour for menopausal women?
Hello @sco,
Thank you for delivering all this info in a most comprehensive, straight-forward way. This post is such an eye opener for me.
Most importantly from their point of view, isoflavones are natural food constituents, and thus, they are not at all regulated by law.
I did not know about this.
the average Western woman that doesn’t eat soy for 50 years and then starts to take high doses of isoflavones
I better call my mother NOW!
Although, I suppose the most surprising thing for me it was learning about how supplementarion can actually increase the risk of cancer, when we resort to it to obtain precisely the oposite effect.
All the best to you 🌷
Hey Abigail, thanks a lot for your feedback, it's always important to me to see the reaction of non-molecular-biologist-people to my posts!
Maybe I have to better describe "not regulated at all" a bit more specific... of course they also have to abide to some laws: They are not to allowed produce supplements with ingredients that are proven toxins in the supplied concentrations.
What I meant is that in opposite to producers of pharmaceuticals, they do not have to prove that their products are safe. And it's a huge difference between having to prove your product is safe in order to sell it and being able to wait until someone else can prove it is not safe and only then being forced to withdraw the product.
What also happens quite frequently is that when indeed the harmfulness of a supplement or cosmetic (the same rules apply) is proven, manufactorers withdraw the product, change the formula just slightly, and bring it back onto the market. Then the whole game starts all over again, until years later, science catches up with that product as well. Then they again change the formula a little, ...