Korean Soy Milk Noodles Recipe

The AHA! Team — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 05:44:24 +0000

Recipe by: Christina Ng- East Meets Kitchen via Nutrition Facts – Korean Soy Milk Noodles Recipe “Kongguksu,” Korean Soy Milk Noodles, combines a homemade soy broth with whole-grain buckwheat noodles and vegetables. The broth is usually served cold but can be enjoyed warm if desired. Feel free to top the dish with any additional vegetables of choice. Soybeans are high in fiber, iron, magnesium, potassium, protein, and zinc. Certain gut bacteria can supercharge the benefits of soy foods, resulting in even more bone protection, even better control of menopausal symptoms, and even lower prostate cancer risk. How can we foster the growth of these good bacteria? Watch our video “How to Convert Into an Equol Producer” to find out. COURSE: Main Course SERVINGS: 2 Ingredients ▢ ½ cup dried soybeans, soaked overnight ▢ 2 tablespoons raw sesame seeds ▢ 2 tablespoons raw pine nuts ▢ 1 teaspoon miso paste, or to taste ▢ 4 ounces buckwheat noodles, cooked ▢ 8-10 cherry tomatoes, halved ▢ ½ cucumber, cut into thin strips Instructions In a pot, boil the soybeans in two cups of water (0.5 liters) for 20 to 30 minutes, then drain. In a blender, combine the soybeans, sesame seeds, pine nuts, and miso paste with two cups of water and blend until smooth. Chill the broth, serve at room temperature, or heat it in a saucepan, as desired. Ladle the broth on top of prepared buckwheat noodles and top with the cherry tomatoes and cucumber strips. To read the original article click here.

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What Does Drinking Soy Milk Do to Hormone Levels?

AHA Publisher — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 07:00:40 +0000

Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via Nutrition Facts – The vast majority of breast cancers start out hormone-dependent, where estradiol, the primary human estrogen, “plays a crucial role in their breast cancer development and progression.” That’s one of the reasons why soy food consumption appears so protective against breast cancer: Soy phytoestrogens, like genistein, act as estrogen-blockers and block the binding of estrogens, such as estradiol, to breast cancer cells, as you can see at 0:24 in my video How to Block Breast Cancer’s Estrogen-Producing Enzymes. Wait a second. The majority of breast cancers occur after menopause when the ovaries have stopped producing estrogen. What’s the point of eating estrogen-blockers if there’s no estrogen to block? It turns out that breast cancer tumors produce their own estrogen from scratch to fuel their own growth. As you can see at 1:03 in my video, “estrogens may be formed in breast tumors by two pathways, namely the aromatase pathway and sulfatase pathway.” The breast cancer takes cholesterol and produces its own estrogen using either the aromatase enzyme or two hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase enzymes. So, there are two ways to stop breast cancer. One is to use anti-estrogens—that is, estrogen-blockers—like the soy phytoestrogens or the anti-estrogen drug tamoxifen. “However, another way to block estradiol is by using anti-enzymes” to prevent the breast cancer from making all the estrogen in the first place. And, indeed, there are a variety of anti-aromatase drugs in current use. In fact, inhibiting the estrogen production has been shown to be more effective than just trying to block the effects of the estrogen, “suggesting that the inhibition of estrogen synthesis is clinically very important for the treatment of estrogen-dependent breast cancer.” It turns out that soy phytoestrogens can do both. Using ovary cells taken from women undergoing in vitro fertilization, soy phytoestrogens were found to reduce the expression of the aromatase enzyme. What about in breast cancer cells, though? This occurred in breast cancer cells, too, and not only was aromatase activity suppressed, but that of the other estrogen-producing enzyme, as well. But this was in a petri dish. Does soy also suppress estrogen production in people? Well, as you can see at 2:34 in my video, circulating estrogen levels appear significantly lower in Japanese women than Caucasian American women, and Japan does have the highest per-capita soy food consumption, but you can’t know it’s the soy until you put it to the test. Japanese women were randomized to add soy milk to their diet or not for a few months. Estrogen levels successfully dropped about a quarter in the soy milk supplemented group. Interestingly, as you can see at 3:04 in my video, when the researchers tried the same experiment in men, they got similar results: a significant drop in female hormone levels, with no change in testosterone levels. These results, though, are in Japanese men and women who were already consuming soy in their baseline diet. So, the study was really just looking at higher versus lower soy intake. What happens if you give soy milk to women in Texas? As you can see at 3:29 in my video, circulating estrogen levels were cut in half. Since increased estrogen levels are “markers for high risk for breast cancer,” the effectiveness of soy in reducing estrogen levels may help explain why Chinese and Japanese women have such low rates of breast cancer. What’s truly remarkable is that estrogen levels stayed down for a month or two even after the subjects stopped drinking soy milk, which suggests you don’t have to consume soy every day to have the cancer protective benefit. Wait, soy protects against breast cancer? Yes, in study after study after study—and even in women at high risk. Watch my video BRCA Breast Cancer Genes and Soy for the full story. What about if you already have breast cancer? In that case, see Is Soy Healthy for Breast Cancer Survivors? And what about GMO soy? Get the facts in GMO Soy and Breast Cancer. Okay, then, Who Shouldn’t Eat Soy? Watch my video and find out. To read the original article click here. For more article from Dr. Greger click here.

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Korean Soy Milk Noodles Recipe

What Does Drinking Soy Milk Do to Hormone Levels?