Kitchen Cure for Hot Flashes: Soy Sauce

Women who suffer from the symptoms of menopause, especially hot flashes and night sweats, may benefit from eating a little soy every day. You may want to skip the tofu and use soy sauce instead. Only about a third of women in the West are able to convert compounds in soy to their most active form, but if you get your soy in fermented form, such as in soy sauce or miso, the conversion has been done for you. The estrogen-like compounds are readily available.