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Soy Milk and Hot Flashes

By LETICIA | 41 posts, last post
Sasa Milosevic, MD answered this Side Effects Of Soy Milk Intake
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Betty

I have been drinking soy milk for a few years due to an intolerance to dairy products. I recently switched from regular vanilla flavored soy milk to a light version containing strevia and noticed an increase in intensity and frequency of my hot flashes. It looks as though different women can be affected differently. I am considering changing from soy milk to another non-dairy alternative such as almond milk and see if that has an effect on my hot flashes. The hot flashes and perimenopause started a few years ago but I never thought they might be associated with the soy milk until lately. When I discontinued using the strevia, I noticed an almost immediate change in my hot flashes.
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Guest

I experience the same thing except it was not vanilla flavored soy milk but regular. Recently I started taking vitamins and the hot flashes began with a vengeance. I checked the label and sure enough, they contain soy too. I suspect possibly a relation between soy and thyroid function?
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nad

Soy Milk causes hot flashes for me too. Switched to Almond Milk. No problem now.
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susanohhunny

I have changed to unsweetened Almond milk and the hot flashes have dropped tremendously, BUT you also have to check out the vegetable oil, it is soy. So I have changed that also. You just need to start reading the darn labels a little closer as I have had to do and talk to your pharmacist about your prescriptions. I really hate labels! Good luck to all that are having these problems.
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Betty

I've switched to almond milk and watch out for stevia. I still have hot flashes, but they are more tolerable. I also switched to canola mayonnaise instead to avoid the soy in the vegetable oil. It is so difficult to avoid soy; it's in everything! Thanks to all for your suggestions. I'm determined to not take any hormone replacement. I'm hoping that if I just wait it out a couple more years they might go away on their own. I've heard that can happen.
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Guest

Be careful, Almond milk causes it also. For two months now I have been drinking Almond milk and having alwful hot flashes that I have not had in 3 years. I had a total hyst in 2008 and tried to go cold turkey, without any hormone replacement. After two months I tried the Estroven and after 4 months of that and no relief I gave in and started on Premarin. But sometime after Christmas I started to have flashes again and thought maybe got a bad batch of Premarin. I was still having the flashes and they were geting worse. I started thinking about what changed around the time  the flashes came back and realised that I added the Almond milk. I stopped drinking the Almond milk and went back to cow's milk and now a little over a week later the flashes are almost gone. So be careful, the Almond milk can cause the flashes also.
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Pissenlit

I'm a man, and I recently realised that unfermented soya had been causing me hot flushes for a number of years. I used to eat a lot of tofu and drank soya milk. I find than none of the other plant milks do this.

Tamari, miso, tempeh and fermented tofu (...) are fine.

I assume that the phytodiddledah (sorry, poor memory) reacts with other components produced during fermentation, rendering it inactive.
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Nola

Soya does cause hot flashes and can cause other symptoms of estrogen dominance and even adrenal exhaustion symptoms. I recently had a big reaction to soya milk and these are the symptoms I had; it also messed up my menstrual cycles and caused itchy hives. I stopped drinking the soya immediately but at first the symptoms got worse (soya withdrawal). They went down withint a month but it took another 2 or 3 months for me to go back to normal. I think if anyone has any of these symptoms from soya it is best to stop having it immediately as they could have a soya intolerance. I went on drinking it for about a month and so that is why the symptoms got a lot worse for a while.
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Caroline


I thought that the soy milk would help my hot flashes! Just the opposite happened. They got much much worse and increased to about 30 a day including night sweats. I stopped drinking soy milk last week and now I am only getting 2-3 a day and only waking up 1 time during the night . I am only 45 years old but going through early menopause symptoms. I think I will drink almond milk from now on!

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Guest

I don't use soy often but when I do now I notice night sweats.  I make a pumpkin pie that use 1 1/2 cups of plain soy milk. this caused night sweats each day I ate it. Going to use coconut milk next time.

i am well into menopause and rarely get night sweats. So the soy connection here was easy to see.

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Guest


Reply to Leticia about soy milk causing hot flashes. Yes, yes, yes, I have been experiencing the vicious return of hot flashes which had practically stopped before I started drinking soy milk. Am going to switch to almond milk and see what happens.
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Guest

I got into eating Edamame 4-5 days a week for a couple of weeks about a year ago and started getting bad flashes.  Stopped that and they went away.  Recently I started getting bad flashes and not sleeping well.  I realized this morning I had been eating Protien rich Cherrios.

When I looked at the label, saw that Soy Prtein and Soy flour were in the first 5 ingredients.  Think this may be the culprit.  No more of this cereal for me. Hope that is the answer.

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Guest

I thought I was crazy because soy is supposed to help with hot flashes, but I swear they tripled for me when I started drinking soy milk! Thanks to evveryone for these posts..

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Patricia

I have been on a whole food plant based diet for six weeks and have lost 14 pounds. I introduced tofu in a few of my receipes this past week and noticed I started having mild hot flashes, which I thought I was over the more intense episodes for good. From what I have found out, it appears soy based products are not for me.

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Guest


i am 63 and menopause is long time come and gone but find recently i have been having hot flashes only in the morning when i first get up- checked with the MD and found my thyroid is fine. then it occurred to me that i do drink more than a half gallon of Soy vanilla milk a week.. and wonder if that could be the culprit. i am going to restrain from the soy milk for the next month and see what happens..or better yet- what hopefully doesn't happen.
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