What are the Effects of the Hops Phytoestrogen in Beer?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2016-07-29

When it comes to breast cancer risk, does the phytoestrogen in beer act more like the animal estrogens in Premarin or the protective phytoestrogens in soy?

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A phytoestrogen in beer? More on the background in the prequel:  The Most Potent Phytoestrogen is in Beer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-most-potent-phytoestrogen-is-in-beer)

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For more on the risks of alcohol in terms of breast cancer risk, see Breast Cancer and Alcohol: How Much is Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-and-alcohol-what-much-is-safe/) and Breast Cancer Risk: Red Wine vs. White Wine (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-risk-red-wine-vs-white-wine/).

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