Soy Estrogen Testosterone Myth Is A Hoax
Q: Is Soy Milk Bad for Men/Make Them Less Manly? =NO.
ANSWER = NO.
THE SOY MYTH IS AN INTERNET HOAX.
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I read an article on Men's Health magazine and a few others on the Internet..." = Note--> "I read it on the internet..." -Indeed. Because the Soy Myth is an Internet Hoax.
HERE ARE THE ACTUAL FACTS:
- SOY DOES NOT CONTAIN ESTROGEN.
- SOY DOES NOT AFFECT MEN'S TESTOSTERONE.
- VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE OTHER CLAIMS WERE FOUND FALLACIOUS.
- THE SOY HOAX MYTH HAS BEEN TRACED TO AN EXTREMIST FRONT GROUP CALLED THE "WAPF" AND WAS FOUND BIOLOGICALLY FALLACIOUS.
Soy does NOT contain estrogen.
One more time: Soy does NOT contain Estrogen. None. Zero.
So why are all these places saying soy contains estrogen? ANSWER: The soy hoax was concocted that way, and made to 'appear scientific' (called pseudo-science) in order to get lesser educated people to believe it. And many undereducated people have been duped by it. Soy contains a beneficial chemical that has a name spelled similarly, and they've used this in order to trick people. Soy only contains "PHYTOestrogen". Notice the PHYTO on the front. That means "plant". In other words it's the plant form, and is only meant for plants. This is NOT identical to ESTROGEN. Phytoestrogen is NOT the same as the mammalian (human) animal form of estrogen. The form of estrogen that can affect humans is found in meat, not in plants. To give you an idea of what they've done here to fool people, consider the following example: You all know that your car runs on "gas". And it's flammable. In fact, you can set it on fire if you light a fire near it. Even cause an explosion. Well...the earth's atmosphere is MADE OF GAS! Now, one could dupe a child by telling them "gas" causes explosions, and the atmosphere is made out of "gas", if they light a match they could set the entire earth's atmosphere on fire! Oh no!--Too bad it's false, and doesn't happen. All it is, is preying upon a child (or one whose educaction in science is low) and using the fact that the words "gas" and "gasoline" are similar. But they are not identical. This is what the pseudo-science spreaders of the soy myth have done.
Soy does NOT contain estrogen! Soy does NOT decrease Testosterone in men. Soy does NOT effeminize men, in fact it does the opposite, makes men more manly. (Because soy BLOCKS the actual mammalian estrogen)
HOW DID THE SOY MYTH GET SPREAD?
This soy myth was fabricated by members of an extremist fringe group that has been identified as the: "Weston Price Foundation". This is a front group. (A faction of individuals that use scam information, contrive an appearance of being one kind of group, for example consumer-friendly, yet in reality they are pushing an underlying agenda of harmful information, in order to benefit their lobbyist sponsors, such as the meat or farm lobby, and to thwart competition and competitive products in order to increase the sales of and push the commercial products their sponsors, and in the midst of this publish false 'scientific looking' information that could potentially damage Americans, their families, and children. WAPF is an anti-american front group.)
The soy myth has been found traced to individuals such as: Mary G Enig, Sally Fallon Morell, and Kaayla T Daniel of WAPF, and spread by a known quack doctor named "Joseph Mercola" who is also linked to the WAPF. Kaayla T Daneil bragged about having duped a popular bodybuilding site called "T NATION" (Testosterone Nation) into believing her concocted soy myth. And others at WAPF have boasted of now having duped "Mens' Health" magazine and other innumerable 'chatters' on forums and chat boards, bloggers, etc, into believing it. A known method often employed by the front group is to claim credentials, for example many members of the WAPF publish soy articles and then list themselves as a "Dr." Then you observe and it turns out they're not a Medical Doctor (MD) at all, but have simply gotten someone that got a PhD in some other subject, such as english, or civil engineering, from a college, and therefore can put the word "Dr" in front of their name. Another ploy is to put Dr. when they are a dentist. This is how they can 'technically' pass muster, yet still be deceptive, as most people will never check this, and assume that someone called "Doctor" who is recommending nutritional and health information is a trained physician. Not knowing that they merely pulled teeth, or built things out of concrete.
The fake soy estrogen myth was spread in several articles such as "SOY IS EVIL!" and "THE DANGERS OF SOY!", "SOY DANGERS!" and a book named "THE WHOLE SOY STORY" which have all been traced to either Mercola or the WAPF, but now, many hundreds of other internet sites have mistakenly gotten duped and have parroted it, repeating it and parroting it (As you witness the author who got duped in Men's Health, TESTOSTERONE NATION, and undereducated commenters in forums, on tiny fitness and bodybuilding chat boards, etc). Any person saying that soy contains estrogen is confirmed fallacious. Any individual then concocting supposed 'results of it' such as becoming effeminate, growing boobs, losing sperm, turning gay, causing thyroid cancer, hurting your baby in infant formula, or dont drink it or you wont be a 'real' man, etc, is now regarded as wholly biologically discredited.
If you see any person trying to reinforce the soy myth, that person is either scientifically undereducated, or knows and is attempting to dupe you or scare you on purpose, and their postings can be thrown out and garbaged.
BIOLOGICAL SCIENTIFIC PROOF:
LABORATORY TESTS CONFIRM SOY ESTROGEN MYTH A HOAX (CONFIRMED SCIENFICALLY FALLACIOUS).
PUBMED JOURNAL:
"CLINICAL STUDIES SHOW NO EFFECTS OF SOY PROTEIN OR ISOFLAVONES ON REPRODUCTIVE HORMONES IN MEN"
"32 reports involving 36 treatment groups and 15 placebo-controlled treatment groups with baseline and ending measures involving soy, isoflavones, genistein, phytoestrogens, red clover, androgens, testosterone, and SHBG, were analyzed. CONCLUSION: The results of this meta-analysis found that neither soy foods nore soy isoflavone supplements alter measures of bioavailable Testosterone concentrations in men. There was no effect.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19524224
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SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: SOY DOES NOT HAVE FEMINIZING EFFECTS ON MEN. [VERIFIED.]
ANALYSIS: "Soybean isoflavone exposure does not have feminizing effects on men" - NIH National Institute of Health
"Neither isoflavone supplements nor isoflavone-rich soy affect total or free testosterone levels. Clinical evidence also indicates that isoflavones have no effect on sperm. There is essentially no evidence from the nine identified clinical studies that soy isoflavone exposure affects estrogen levels in men."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20378106
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METASTUDY: REVIEW OF OVER 15 STUDIES SHOW NO ESTROGENIC EFFECT OF SOY ON MEN'S TESTOSTERONE
SCIENCE: "Review finds NO Effect of soy on testosterone" - METAREVIEW STUDY
Despite rumours often spread on the internet, "A review of 15 studies into the influence of soy proteins or isoflavones on male hormones has found No evidence of an estrogen-like effect." These rumours stemmed from a handful of flawed reports. "The authors criticized the studies that reported lowered testosterone levels for their methodology." One of them had only 12 subjects in it. In another, the researchers forgot to include a control, and final readings, rendering their results useless. In another one the entire result was due to just 1 subject. The soy scares were based on this flawed science. It was actually found that Soy does not cause breast cancer, protstate cancer, thyroid problems, infant formula problems, or estrogenic effects, on the contrary "Eating soy demonstrated protection against breast cancer, prostate cancer, and heart disease." Eating Soy was confirmed benficial. For women, children, and indeed men.
http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Review-finds-no-effect-of-soy-on-testosterone
SOY DOES NOT CONTAIN ESTROGEN.
SOY DOES NOT AFFECT TESTOSTERONE.
THE SOY ESTROGEN MYTH IS A CONFIRMED INTERNET HOAX.