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Does it have to be soy milk? From: Go Ask Alice

"You may be wondering whether you need to take isoflavone supplements to help with hot flashes, or eat more soy foods. Most experts recommend taking no more than 50 - 100 milligrams of isoflavones a day, if at all. (This is the amount estimated in the average Japanese diet.) The scientific community does not know the long-term effects of large amounts of concentrated dosages of isoflavones in humans. To be on the safe side, it is relatively easy to obtain 50 - 100 mg. of isoflavones a day from food alone.

Here are some examples:
Food Source Isoflavones (in mg.)
� cup tofu 25
1 cup unfortified soy milk 10
1 cup fortified soy milk 43
� cup cooked green soybeans (a.k.a. edamame) 50
� cup soy crumbles 8.5
� cup tempeh 53
� cup soy nuts 78
� cup fortified textured soy protein * 33
(* Some isoflavones may be lost during processing.) "

Maybe you could try a different soy food? Other suggestions, I would try drinking the milk at a different time of day when your tummy isn't so sensitive, or maybe after a safe breakfast? If you are taking a SFS, you could try increasing the dose, or increasing your water intake (maybe try upping your water intake anyway?) You could talk to your doctor to see if there is something safe you can take to help with the C; I know there are a lot of people here who recommend Natural Calm (try a board search and you should get lots of info about it).

Hope this helps! And thanks for asking about this too: I didn't know that soy could help with hot flashes- I'll have to suggest this to my mom

Good luck!

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~*Amber*~

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