17-07-2011, 10:23
Hi Soonenough,
That's a good question. The quick answer would be no. Unpasteurised yoghurt speeds up the uptake of nutritients by the liver, rather than slow it down:
http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=2006/ES/ES0605.xml;ES2006001043
But the real answer depends on how PM works. PM needs processing by the liver to work well:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-879X2009007500026&script=sci_arttext&tlng=pt
I guess that's the reason why vendors advise to take it with milk, hot milk, etc.
The same research group have also made a start in safety studies, for mutagenic risk (cancer):
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-879X2009000900008&script=sci_arttext&tlng=es
This article confirms that the extract is estrogenic, when taken orally:
http://www.academicjournals.org/jmpr/PDF/pdf2010/4May/Siangcham%20et%20al.pdf
The paper also describes the extraction procedure, with exact amounts of powder: 0.1 and 0.2 mg/ml for 10 hours in hot water. So the alcohol is not necessary for PM. They used soxhlet extractors: that's not easy to do in the kitchen, unless you have a coffee percolator. Leaving it in a closed bottle in a warm, dark place will take longer, like two weeks. Then filter through a coffee filter.
An injected extract is only weakly estrogenic:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367326X10000365
This means that leaving the extract under your tongue to soak into your blood stream will not be effective for PM.
So I changed my mind, and apolpogize for the above posts
Your answer is yes: PM will work best with unpasteurised yoghurt, gulped down at least 20 minutes before, or 2 hours after a meal.
That's a good question. The quick answer would be no. Unpasteurised yoghurt speeds up the uptake of nutritients by the liver, rather than slow it down:
http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=2006/ES/ES0605.xml;ES2006001043
But the real answer depends on how PM works. PM needs processing by the liver to work well:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-879X2009007500026&script=sci_arttext&tlng=pt
I guess that's the reason why vendors advise to take it with milk, hot milk, etc.
The same research group have also made a start in safety studies, for mutagenic risk (cancer):
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-879X2009000900008&script=sci_arttext&tlng=es
This article confirms that the extract is estrogenic, when taken orally:
http://www.academicjournals.org/jmpr/PDF/pdf2010/4May/Siangcham%20et%20al.pdf
The paper also describes the extraction procedure, with exact amounts of powder: 0.1 and 0.2 mg/ml for 10 hours in hot water. So the alcohol is not necessary for PM. They used soxhlet extractors: that's not easy to do in the kitchen, unless you have a coffee percolator. Leaving it in a closed bottle in a warm, dark place will take longer, like two weeks. Then filter through a coffee filter.
An injected extract is only weakly estrogenic:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367326X10000365
This means that leaving the extract under your tongue to soak into your blood stream will not be effective for PM.
So I changed my mind, and apolpogize for the above posts
Your answer is yes: PM will work best with unpasteurised yoghurt, gulped down at least 20 minutes before, or 2 hours after a meal.