Revival
Dear Kaayla,
I love Christiane Northrup’s books and she says wonderful things about a product named Revival. I checked their website and learned that the problems you attribute to soy are irrelevant with Revival because of the care with which they manufacture the product. Can you comment?
DF
Dear DF,
It may be true that Revival’s manufacturing process involves lower and less caustic alkaline levels than other commercial processing methods. If so, this would result in lower levels of a toxin known as lysinoalanine. That’s to the good. However, Revival boasts that it contains 160 mg isoflavones per serving. That is more than four times that the amount that caused thyroid damage in a clinical trial using healthy Japanese men and women. It is almost four times the amount that has disturbed the menstrual cycles of healthy women. I could go on about the dangers of isoflavones — and do in The Whole Soy Story. I hear more complaints about Revival than any other product on the market. Dr. Northrup herself admits to having been recently diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Why take the risk?