Combining plant-based diet and healthy microbiome may protect against multiple sclerosis

A new study shows that a diet rich in isoflavone, a phytoestrogen or plant-based compound that resembles estrogen, protects against multiple sclerosis-like symptoms in a mouse model of the disease. Importantly, the isoflavone diet was only protective when the mice had gut microbes capable of breaking down the isoflavones.

source https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210713110811.htm