Study supports soy cholesterol benefits for some

Despite past evidence suggesting that eating soy might only lower cholesterol in those whose bodies are able to convert it to an estrogen-like compound called equol, a new study hints that soy might benefit a wider range of people.


Canadian researchers found that a diet high in soy isoflavones lowered so-called “bad” cholesterol, or LDL, about equally in people who were considered “equol producers” and in those who weren’t. The equol producers, however, maintained their previous levels of “good” HDL cholesterol, while the non-producers’ HDL dropped as well.


Cyril Kendall, a nutrition researcher at the University of Toronto in Canada, and his colleagues used three previous studies to test whether the ability to produce equol from soy products was linked to changes in cholesterol.

Source: http://www.health.am/cholesterol/more/soy-cholesterol-benefits/

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