Raena Morgan: Hello, I’m visiting with Dr. Marian Verbruggen. She is with Frutarum Health. We’re talking about the soybean, aren’t we?
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: Yes, we are.
Raena Morgan: It’s very important, isn’t it?
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: The soybean is very important; it’s a very nutritional bean or food product, actually to look at for many health benefits indeed.
Raena Morgan: Frutarum puts out a SoyLife, is that what it’s called?
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: Yes.
Raena Morgan: Could you tell us about that?
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: It was produced SoyLife and we exclusively produced that from the soy germ so that that little, tiny part from the soybean finally they grew a plant from [it].
Raena Morgan: That’s the most nutritional part?
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: That’s the most nutritional part; that’s where the plant cell concentrates all its healthy nutrients in, more or less. We sell it for the isoflavone portion that’s in the soy germ. If you look at the soybean there’s approximately .3% of isoflavones present and in the soy germ it’s typically 10 times as high. So, that’s why we use it as a natural rich source of isoflavones.
Raena Morgan: So, it’s very potent.
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: It’s very potent, as it is already, as a soy germ, yes.
Raena Morgan: What are some of the benefits of soy?
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: Soy is known to affect, especially, women’s health, especially in aging women. Once women get into menopause they suffer a lot of discomforts like menopausal discomforts as a result also [of] a greater loss of bone. And, the isoflavones in soy and in SoyLife can prevent that bone loss appearing and it can prevent the occurrence of menopausal symptoms like hot flashes.
Raena Morgan: Because it has estrogen properties?
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: Yes, yes. It’s an estrogen mimic, more or less, yes. The structure looks similar as an estrogen so it fits in with the estrogen receptors, thereby doing the same thing as an estrogen but at a lower strength.
Raena Morgan: Than HRT?
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: Yes, yes, exactly.
Raena Morgan: So, it’s a lot safer?
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: A lot safer, yes. It has been used for years now and we didn’t have any reports of adverse effects or whatever.
Raena Morgan: How does it stack up against typical products for bone loss like your Boniva—those sort of products?
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: I’m not aware, really, of Boniva.
Raena Morgan: Fosomax.
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: That’s mostly, probably also hormone products?
Raena Morgan: Well, it’s to prevent bone loss.
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: Yes, yes. We are not marketing SoyLife as really a replacement for medication.
Raena Morgan: Okay.
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: I mean it supports the prevention of bone loss but it’s not a medicine. It can never be as strong as a real estrogen. It’s not a real estrogen but it [helps] to prevent bone loss.
Raena Morgan: It’s a natural product.
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: It’s a natural product without the adverse effects.
Raena Morgan: No side effects.
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: No side effects at least not with unintelligible.
Raena Morgan: Very good. Tell us a little bit about the studies that you’ve done.
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: As with respect to bone loss we’ve done 3 studies now; 2 of them were done in China and they have been done with SoyLife at a dose of approximately 80 milligrams of isoflavones as a daily dose. And, all of them have shown that, although you expect after menopause that’s the bone loss increases…due to the women not producing their own hormones anymore….We actually found that we didn’t find any bone loss actually anymore; it increased even a bit.
Raena Morgan: Oh, it did?
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: So, it was really preventing bone loss from occurring.
Raena Morgan: Well, thank you Dr. Verbruggen.
Dr. Marian Verbruggen: You’re welcome.
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