His prostate was enlarged but had no mass in it, and there were no swollen lymph glands. Absolutely no metastases or adenopathy was found. By drinking 38 bottles of a concentrated fermented soybean beverage, a 4th-stage prostate cancer patient had reversed to a stage one condition. The claims department was smart enough to see that a soybean beverage was far less expensive than the medical treatment would have been. According to the report, unfermented soy products don't have the therapeutic clout for cancer patients that fermented soy has.
Fermentation breaks down an enzyme-inhibitor in soybeans that digests protein.
That's an important point for cancer patients because cancer cells have a protein coating that is 15 times thicker than the protein coating on normal cells. To do its cancer-cell killing work, the soybean phytochemicals need to get through that coating. For cancer patients, it means they may dramatically reverse their cancers by drinking a fermented soy beverage every day. But researchers say that only soy supplements provide the required level of therapeutic isoflavones. The most sensible thing, therefore, is to add soy products to our diet for its cholesterol benefits, but to take a soy supplement as an anti cancer safeguard.