Femarelle Review at a Glance
Short on time? Here’s a quick summary of our Femarelle Recharge review, after which you can read our team’s complete and in-depth report.
Pros
- Natural, non-hormonal menopause support
- Contains a full month’s supply
- 1 capsule twice per day
- Decent price – $34.90 on the official website and Amazon
- Contains Tofu extract which may help reduce hot flashes
Cons
- Contains only 3 ingredients
- Flaxseeds are good but underdosed – 108 mg is far below the minimum effective dose of 30 g (that’s grams) per day
- Missing core female vitality herbs and vitamins for mood & energy
Femarelle Recharge – How Does it Work?
Femarelle is claimed to contain ingredients that help bring your body back into Equilibrium.
With 56 capsules per bottle, it claims to help you:
- Help balance estrogen levels
- Reduce hot flashes, night sweats and other menopausal symptoms
- Improve mood & well-being
Femarelle dosage instructions are to take 1 capsule, two times per day with water. You can also take it with your meals if you prefer!
You’ll find Femarelle on numerous places, including Amazon and eBay as well as physical stores like Walmart. Depending on where you buy it, it costs around $29 per bottle (1 month supply).
On Amazon, Femarelle has about 70 reviews with an average score of 3.9/5.
While the customer reviews aren’t looking that glamurous, what does the science say about its ingredients?
That’s what we’re about to find out!
Ingredients – What’s Inside?
In each capsule of Femarelle Recharge you’ll find the following ingredients:
- Tofu Extract (DT56a) (from soy) (322mg)
- Flaxseed (108mg)
- Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine Hydrochloride) (1mg)
You’ll notice it only has 3 active ingredients. Typically with best products you’ll see a combination of more than that, but we’ll give Femarelle the benefit of the doubt because it’s a very clean formula – having no fillers or harmful additives.
It’s also nice to see transparent ingredient doses on the label. You might think, “isn’t that normal?” You’d be surprised! Many supplements hide the amounts of ingredients behind these so-called ‘proprietary blends’ in the name of profit.
So, how do ingredients in Femarelle work? Do they work? We investigate below!
Tofu Extract
Femarelle’s off to a good start with this ingredient.
You could say that tofu is soy cheese, and you’d pretty much be right. Traditional tofu is made from mixing soy milk with salts and acids. During the process, the liquid is drained and soy curds pressed into tofu.
Tofu is rich in isoflavones. These compounds – also known as phytoestrogens – act similarly to the female sex hormone estrogen in your body.
In studies, soy isoflavones have been shown to raise serum estradiol levels in postmenopausal women. But, soy foods such as tofu have also been linked with a lowered risk of certain types of malign conditions in women. Not only that, soy isoflavonoles may also help reduce hot flashes and strengthen your bones.
The only problem is, isoflavone levels of different types of soy differ a lot. This means it’s hard to tell if there’s enough of Tofu Extract in Femarelle to make any difference in your hormones.
Flaxseed
Flaxseeds are a decent ingredient in Femarelle. They contain some omega-3s, specifically, Alpha Linoleic Acid.
This form of omega-3 isn’t very bioavailable though, which means your body has a hard time using it. To put it in the words of Examine.com editors:
“Not only is ALA not sufficient to supplement on its own, but ALA has to be converted by the body into a usable form, and the ratio of conversion from unusable form to use is rather poor, somewhere in the range of 5-15%. Omega 3 supplements in the form of EPA and DHA are what the body tends to use for many of the benefits associated with fish oil.”
Examine.com
However, what flaxseeds lack in the omega-3 department they make up for with their phytoestrogen content. Specifically, flaxseeds will provide you with high amounts of lignans, chemicals that act similarly to the female hormone estrogen.
At doses of around 40g per day, flaxseeds have been shown to help with menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats. Looking at the label of Femarelle, you’ll notice it doesn’t have even 5% of that amount!
Vitamin B6
Vitamin B6 is a good overall health ingredient. It may not have the same impact on your menopausal symptoms as flaxseeds or tofu extract, but it’s a good insurance policy in case you aren’t getting enough of the nutrient through foods. Which is what typically only happens in strict vegan diets.
Femarelle does use less bioavailable, synthetic form of vitamin B6 – Pyrodoxine Hydrochloride. Some people can’t absorb this form of vitamin B6 well!
This is why we’d rather prefer to see pyridoxal-5-phosphate (P5P), which is more effective and naturally utilized by your body.
Side Effects
If you’re healthy, then Femarelle should work fine for you. Looking at the studies, its ingredients don’t come with any adverse side effects, especially in doses as low as in Femarelle.
*You should check with a qualified professional if you aren’t sure whether to take this product or not. Remember, our posts aren’t meant as advice – they’re for informational and entertainment purposes only!
The Bottom Line
So that finalizes our Femarelle Recharge review. It’s an interesting supplement – fairly safe with only 3 ingredients, but also fairly ineffective in what it claims to do.
The only ingredient that works in Tofu Extract. It contains chemicals that have been shown to reduce hot flashes.
As far as the remaining two ingredients go, flaxseeds are decent but there’s only 108mg of them in Femarelle (for comparison, you’ll need 5-40g per day to notice any benefit), and vitamin B6 is a basic ingredient that you won’t feel working unless you’re severely deficient in it.
There’s definitely room for more proven female vitality ingredients in Femarelle. While it’s not a bad product, we don’t rate it as one of the best on the market right now, either.