OH SOY!

[macabre-grrl.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think that soy can bring on a period. I know that menopausal women are sometimes advised to eat soy because of the estrogens in it. And the last time I had my period it lasted a whole extra day. I realized that I had eaten tons of tofu and soy milk that same week. On top of that, a friend of mine is an animal science major, meaning she does a lot of biology. She claims that one possible reason for earlier menarche is the excess soy in some diets (I'd thought that veggie girls had later menarche. meh.)

Lastly, i'd read in a medical journal about a woman who added tons of yams and soy to her daily diet (in search of vitamin A or something) and found herself spotting off schedule. Again, yams have estrogens and menopausal women sometimes use yam based creams for easing symptoms.

Could this be a new way for us to bring on periods? Parseley tea gets competition.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_last_serenade_/]

oooh. interesting. *looks at her carton of silk* hmmm.

i'll have to start making a note of the soy in my diet and period times...see if there's any correlation (although i dunno, since i'm on the pill). thanks for sharing!

[macabre-grrl.livejournal.com]

actually i'm also on the pill. it surprised me because of that.

[sashajohnston.livejournal.com]

Holy crap!
Thank you so much for posting that.

I stopped eating dairy foods at few weeks ago and have been substituting them for soy products and I've for the last week or so have noticed some light spotting going on (I'm mid-cycle) and that seems to be a likely cause.

Thanks again...

[tyrsalvia.livejournal.com]

Soy really helps with my cramps.

[lizdefiance.livejournal.com]

veggie girls DO have later menarche, but that could be completely due to the fact that animals are injected with so many growth hormones, bringing on periods earlier for animal eaters. if that didn't happen, maybe veggie girls WOULD be having their periods earlier. who knows?

one thing i think is interesting is that japanese culture has no word for "heat flashes," like what happens to american women during menopause. that's because they eat so much soy all through their lives that heat flashes just don't happen!