Apart from the beneficial health effects of soy isoflavones related to various hormone-related health conditions in both men and women, there are also some concerns regarding the safety of soyfoods and soy isoflavones. There has been some specific concern whether consumption of isoflavones might result in adverse effects on men’s fertility, such as modified testosterone [...]
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Safety of Frutarom`s daidzein rich SoyLife products
To ensure the safety of Frutarom`s SoyLife products several tests were performed. No Observed Adverse Effect Level with respect to growth, behaviour, food & water intake, and organ weights and structure were reported. It is concluded that SoyLife is not mutagenic in the Salmonella typhimurium reverse mutation assay (a biological assay to assess the mutagenic [...]
SoyLife Overview
Download the SoyLife Brochure PDF What is this? SoyLife is a unique soy isoflavone ingredient manufactured exclusively from soy germ. Soy germ (rather than either whole bean or the fermented bi-products of ex- traction) contains the highest natural level of isoflavones combined with more than 40 other phytonutrients. SoyLife provides you with a powerful and [...]
Soylife, Calcium and Vit D in the prevention of osteoporosis – OPUS study 2004–2007
More than 45% of women and 30% of men over 50 years old are known to potentially suffer from a limb fracture. This 2 year study with 400 post menopausal women in 3 centres in the US was designed to evaluate the combination of SoyLife (0 mg, 80 mg and 120 mg per day) in [...]
SoyLife® Extra
What is this? SoyLife EXTRA is a soy germ concentrate standardized to 10% isoflavones. Specially selected high-quality soy germs are the starting material for SoyLife EXTRA production. This is different from many isoflavone extracts, which are concentrated from soy molasses, or other materials that result from extensive fractionations. Because SoyLife EXTRA has been produced from [...]
Soy isoflavone supplementation enhances spatial working memory in Men
By Thorp et al, B. J. Nutr. 102(9) (2009), 1348-54 Females perform better in certain memory-related tasks than males. Sex differences in cognitive performance may be attributable to differences in circulating oestrogen acting on oestrogen beta receptors (ERbeta) which are prevalent in brain regions such as the hippocampus, frontal lobe and cortex that mediate cognitive [...]
Safety evaluation of SoyLife
By NOTOX, The Netherlands, 2000 and 2001. Genetic toxicology focuses on the process of mutagenesis, that includes the induction of DNA damage and all kinds of genetic changes, ranging from alterations in one or a few DNA base pairs (gene mutations) to gross changes in chromosome structure (chromosome aberrations) or chromosome number. Mutagens are of [...]
Various doses of soy isoflavones do not modify mammographic density in postmenopausal women
By Maskarinec et al. J. Nutr. 139: 98, 1–986, 2009 High mammographic densities confer a higher risk to develop breast cancer. Several studies have indicated that dietary and hormonal factors may modify breast density. Discussion exists sometimes if soy isoflavones may protect against breast cancer as a result of their antiestrogenic activity or could be [...]
Soy isoflavone supplementation elevates erythrocyte superoxide dismutase, but not plasma ceruloplasmin in postmenopausal breast cancer survivors
By DiSilvestro RA, Goodman J., Dy E., LaValle G. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 89 (2005): 251–255. Soy isoflavones have been given considerable attention in regard to breast cancer, both for prevention and for increasing risk. Soy isoflavone antioxidant effects may help prevent breast cancer re-occurrence, but isoflavone estrogen-like actions may increase breast cancer risk. [...]
Estrogenic activity of glycitein, a soy isoflavone
Tong T. Song, S. Hendrich and P.A. Murphy, J.Agric. Food Chem., 47,1607–1610, 1999. In most soy foods, genistein and daidzein account for about 80 – 90% of total isoflavones. In soy germ, the major isoflavones present are daidzein (45-60%) and glycitein (35-45%). In studies, the estrogenic activities of genistein and daidzein were reported to be [...]
