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Your Health: Borage seed oil nearly eliminates hot flashes in menopausal women

By The Graedons
Dec 6, 2007
Dec 6, 2007

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Q:You recently had a question from a woman suffering hot flashes due to menopause. I am a cancer patient and avoid soy because it acts like estrogen. I have found borage seed oil nearly eliminates my hot flashes. The cancer center checked on it before I began and said it's OK.

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