05-07-2012, 06:28 PM
Hi lostacres6,
Cosupplementation of hops, soy, and flax only improves the odds that you already have the bacteria for at least one of them. Barley grass, alfalfa, and oat tops are in Eve's program for other reasons.
I looked further into mochaccino's question:
The use of a probiotic to make equol from daidzein was demonstrated by the group who developed Menohop:
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/136/4/946.short
In this patent:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP1869200.html
there is a reference to an older journal publication:
"Decroos et al. (2005) Arch. Microbiol. 183, 45-55, recently isolated a microbial consortium capable of transforming the soy phytoestrogen daidzein into equol"
In that journal publication:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/14arrw81w6ukub7k/
the strain that makes equol from daidzein "was tentatively identified as Veillonella sp strain EP".
Later, other strains were found:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bbb...9/_article
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bbb...8/_article
http://www.springerlink.com/content/8181383q7t752515/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...6410000284
but Eubacterium Limosum is not one of them.
Since 2009, there has been a lot of patenting activity in bacteria that produce equol from daidzein. I'm sure a probiotic will be for sale soon.
Cosupplementation of hops, soy, and flax only improves the odds that you already have the bacteria for at least one of them. Barley grass, alfalfa, and oat tops are in Eve's program for other reasons.
I looked further into mochaccino's question:
The use of a probiotic to make equol from daidzein was demonstrated by the group who developed Menohop:
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/136/4/946.short
In this patent:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP1869200.html
there is a reference to an older journal publication:
"Decroos et al. (2005) Arch. Microbiol. 183, 45-55, recently isolated a microbial consortium capable of transforming the soy phytoestrogen daidzein into equol"
In that journal publication:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/14arrw81w6ukub7k/
the strain that makes equol from daidzein "was tentatively identified as Veillonella sp strain EP".
Later, other strains were found:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bbb...9/_article
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bbb...8/_article
http://www.springerlink.com/content/8181383q7t752515/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...6410000284
but Eubacterium Limosum is not one of them.
Since 2009, there has been a lot of patenting activity in bacteria that produce equol from daidzein. I'm sure a probiotic will be for sale soon.