Unspoken details about Soy
Soy protein is a perfect example for something worldwide accepted as a miracle, but next day tagged as harmful.
In recent years, soy has had a phenomenal increase in popularity, as being the most well-known risk free protein sources available. Reasons? it’s cheap, and has a ton of uses: it can be used in cereals, breads, tofu, protein powders, candies.
But what most people don’t know is that soy could also be harming you.
Basically, soy’s negative aspects originate from two of its isoflavones: daidzein and genistein. These two can very easily get attached to estrogen receptors, which come in two types: beta and alpha. The alpha type receptors are associated with increased levels of water retention, body fat.
This doesn’t sound terrible at all, at least not yet. The drastic effct that soy has on the body is characterized by suppressing the male type hormone - testosterone. Recent studies have clearly shown that there is an undeniable link even between short term soy protein consumption and 76% reduced testosterone levels. Rest assured, this will cause no permanent damage, as testosterone levels go back up after you’ve stopped ingesting soy protein. But what happens in the meantime is that with the testosterone hormone being suppressed, estrogen will now be the more prevalent one. This is when things will start to go bad, especially for males.
It is also believed that the effects that pytoestrogens found in soy induce might have been terribly underestimated for the past decades.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. This is not serious problem for men alone. Pregnant women will also be strongly affected by this.
When testing on rats, female rats were fed levels of genistein equal to those which humans on a soy diet ingest. It was found that the rats’ offspring weighed far less. When genistein was given to male rats, their production of sperm greatly decreased, and so did their body weight along with their testicle size. It was found that genistein may also reduce the urge of mating and reproducing.
Another huge problem for guys is that there is some quantity of evidence that the dangerous duo of genistein and isoflavones can facilitate the development of cancer cells in the prostate.
Soy must be thoroughly researched and not taken as a miracle. It’s a part of the food industry, a billions of dollars capitalism driven industry. And soy, its new star, is dirt cheap to produce.
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