Soy Protein and Reduced Interleukin-6 Levels

• Effects of whey and soy protein supplementation on inflammatory cytokines in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2022-06-16
  • Meta-Analysis
  • The British journal of nutrition 129(5)
  • • Konstantinos Prokopidis
    • Mohsen Mazidi
    • Rajiv Sankaranarayanan
    • Behnam Tajik
    • Anne McArdle
    • Masoud Isanejad

  • PubMed: 35706399
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0007114522001787

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Interleukin-6 Levels

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  The significant reduction was only observed for IL-6 with whey protein and TNF-α with soy protein; soy protein did not significantly reduce IL-6.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No