Menopausal hot flashes: what the evidence supports and Soy Isoflavones

Each entry’s own grades, side by side. A grade says how strong the evidence is for one outcome — it does not rank one entry over the other.

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Menopausal hot flashes: what the evidence supports

3 graded interventions for menopausal hot flashes, ranked by strength of evidence.

Grade B3 graded outcomesrevised Jul 10, 2026

Assembled by the app from other entries in this library. It adds no evidence of its own — follow the links to the entries it draws on.

Compound or practice

Soy Isoflavones

Phytoestrogens with real, modest evidence for menopausal hot flashes — and no, they don't feminize men.

Grade B2 graded outcomesrevised Jul 10, 2026

A structured monograph in Prometheus's bundled library. Its grades are the monograph's own reading of the evidence, not a peer-reviewed review.

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Outcomes are matched by name. Two entries can describe the same outcome in different words, so one listed further down may still be graded in the other.

No outcome has the same name in both entries. They may still overlap under different wording — read the two lists below.

Graded only in Menopausal hot flashes: what the evidence supports

  • Soy Isoflavones Small effectEvidence grade B
  • Black Cohosh Small effectEvidence grade C
  • Red Clover Small effectEvidence grade C

Graded only in Soy Isoflavones

  • Menopausal hot flashes Small effectEvidence grade B
  • Male testosterone Trivial effectEvidence grade D

Conditions

Only in Menopausal hot flashes: what the evidence supports

None.

Only in Soy Isoflavones

What each entry says about the other

  • Menopausal hot flashes: what the evidence supports’s entry · Goes with: Grade B

Both columns are read from the entries as they stand in this library. A comparison is not advice to take either one, and it is no substitute for a clinician who knows the person.