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Phytoestrogen therapy for menopausal symptoms?

BMJ 2001; 323 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.323.7309.354 (Published 18 August 2001) Cite this as: BMJ 2001;323:354

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Single Focus Intervention Is Often Too Narrow

This is welcome science and the carelessness of popular marketing and
assumptions are usually a important to unmask. Clinically however this
really isn't news. Assisting the menopausal woman to greater comfort isn't
merely one thing as the author alludes to in her closing remarks.
Supporting and easing hormonal transitions is however, in my opinion,
worthy of better interventions than HRT. Appropiately unmasking the
silliness of the one to one phytoestrogen story vs. pharmacological
estrogen influence does not itself support the latter as the best choice
whatsoever looking more broadly again from a clinical view.

Competing interests: No competing interests

19 August 2001
Ned Hoke
private practice
Western US