Soy Protein For Menopause: My Accidental Discovery
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Soy Protein for Menopause
Does soy really make a difference when it comes to relieving hot flashes and night sweats?
I came across the answer for my body quite by accident.
Does my story sound like your story?
I was going through terrible hot flashes and night sweats. I couldn’t sleep because I would burn up, break out in sweats, drench my pillow and night shirt and have to get up, change everything, cool down and then I’d go into chills.
And this went on night after night after night. I wake up tired and cranky, unable to focus and get done what I really needed to because I was sleep deprived.
All night, every night, the same routine……. sweats and wishing you could jump into a pile of snow… to teeth chattering chills 3 minutes later. So you cover up… and then the cycle repeats… seemingly in 3-5 minute intervals… I swear that can’t be good on our vital organs!
I often found myself breaking out in hot flashes during the day multiple times which was very embarrassing and inconvenient. Let’s just say I was miserable.
I also had a weight problem and needed to release 40 pounds.
I had ordered the ViSalus Soy Protein Weight Loss Shakes thinking I was ready to release the weight I had piled on over the last couple of years from stress and turning 50 and becoming more sedentary but as it turned out, my mindset was not in the game.
My head told me I needed to loose weight but I didn’t want it bad enough. I loved my mac and cheese and breads, chips and cream soups… and well, you can’t have it both ways. Right?
So what happened was, I had begun to take the ViSalus soy protein weight loss shakes to loose weight but like I said, I wasn’t mentally ready and although I wasn’t hungry, I would reach for breads and pastas as comfort food whenever I felt like it.
However, I had the shake mix and believed that if I just took at least one shake a day, 4-5 times a week, I would be better off than doing nothing and would finish my shake mix off and not reorder. If and when I decided to seriously loose weight, I would reorder at that time.
So I did.
And I ran out.
And within 3-4 days, I was back to miserable days and nights doing the whole night sweats and hot flashes. It dawned on me that I had not had such severe symptoms in a month or two and couldn’t figure out why they would ‘spurt’ like this.
Then it dawned on me again….
The ONLY thing I had changed was the non-consumption of the ViSalus soy protein weight loss shakes! I thought, “could those shakes have been helping my symptoms and I didn’t realize until I ran out?”
Or I ordered a bag of the protein shake mix and began to drink one a day. Within the first 3 days of it being back into my body I noticed my symptoms greatly subsided.
But…. I had to put it to the test. I stopped taking it for a couple days and sure enough the misery returned. I started consuming the shakes and like magic, they diminished to the point where I could sleep through the night for the most part… there were a few nights that I had a flash or two but nothing like what I go through without the soy protein in my system.
And, check this out. When I followed the 2 shakes a day program which I needed to be on for weight loss anyway, the night sweats and day hot flashes completely disappeared. I can climb into bed with the electric blanket and sleep like a baby. During the day, I don’t have embarrassing moments where I feel like I’ve got to put my body in a bucket of ice.
I truly feel like a new woman! With my soy protein for menopause and my continued weight loss through the consumption of the shakes and laying off the junk food, I’m truly getting back to old self again and it feels great.
Does Soy Protein for menopause work for me? YES!
I won’t go a day without my soy protein for menopause. I’m so done with those symptoms and I recommend to any woman who is experiencing the misery of hot flashes and night sweats to at least try a 30 days supply of the ViSalus Protein Weight Loss Shakes. Even if you don’t need to loose weight. They are healthy and jammed pack with nutrition.
Try one a day and see how that goes. If you still have hot flashes, go to two a day. Experiment and see what works for you.
Benefits of Soy Protein for Menopause
Soy has been found to have numerous health benefits for menopausal women including:
…..Weight management
…. Decreased risk of developing heart disease
…. Stronger bones
…. Decreased risk of certain cancers
…. Stabilized appetite
I’ve read studies that show some women have great results when consuming soy protein for menopause and others not so good. If you’re like me, you’ll try anything except drugs. I didn’t want hormone therapies… I wanted good nutrition and a more natural solution. I found it.
And it even gets better. ViSalus has a program where you can refer three of your friends to use the product and you get yours free. FREE! Free is good. I like free.