Unlocking the heart-protective benefits of soy

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) A product of digesting a micronutrient found in soy may hold the key to why some people seem to derive a heart-protective benefit from eating soy foods, while others do not.Japanese men who are able to produce equol -- a substance made by some types of " good " gut bacteria when they metabolize isoflavones (micronutrients found in dietary soy) -- have lower levels of a risk factor for heart disease than their counterparts who cannot produce it.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news