Soy isoflavones increase bone health

A new study from China reports that daily doses of soy isoflavones (126 mg/day) improved bone density with no adverse side effects. Treating bone loss could mean preventing osteoporosis, a disease that affects half of all women over the age of 50. In other words, post menopausal women. In addition, studies from the Archives of Internal Medicine (2005, Vol. 165, pp. 1890-1895) indicate that high amounts of soy consumption may decrease bone fractures in women who were menopausal for less than 10 years by as much as 48 percent.

Results showed that women taking the high doses of soy showed an increase of 1.57 percent in their bone mineral density at the top of the hip bone (femoral neck) compared to a decrease of 0.59 percent in the placebo group. In the placebo group, increased urinary levels of Dpd showed that bone thinning was occurring while in the group taking the high doeses of soy, there was a decrease in Dpd levels. No adverse side effects were reported by the test subjects except for a temporary state of thirst at the beginning of the experiment.


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