Estrogen in Soy Products

[motof]

hey guys

i was browsing the net and found this interesting article about Soy Products increasing its eater's estrogen levels. The article was talking about how it is making for more gay people because of the dramatic increase in estrogen since birth.

While i have no issues with gays, the article caught my eye and kept my interest.

i was wondering if anyone has heard about or put any thought into this and its effects on bodybuilding.

Here is the article: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...TICLE_ID=53327

peace
Motof

[bronson]

That was an interesting read. I know just from my own dealings with soy. I have 3 kids and all of them used soy formula. My oldest is grown and she is straight. I have 2 boys who are high school age and they both have girl friends. When they get home from school I'll check again just to make sure.J/k. LOL.


I know when I was younger, back in the 70's, soy protein was a big deal. Bob Hoffman of York Barbell in Pa. would have it for sale in his health food stores. I can tell you when we were teenagers we drank a lot of it. I didn't like the taste of it and the only way I would drink is mixed with peanut butter, honey, or fruit to kill the taste. We would crack eggs into the drink also, later to find out this wasn't a good idea either. I can still hear an older guy saying to me, don't put raw eggs in your drink,it can be toxic! Anyway, these are my dealings with soy.

[71DarkHorse]

I honestly have a hard time finding that article very valid.

To begin with, soy is not estrogen. Soy does look like estrogen in a sense, as it binds to the receptor of the cell where estrogen would normally bind. Soy would almost be more of an estrogen inhibitor if anything, it would not promote estrogen production. Since soy is not estrogen, it cannot carry out the same pathways the real hormone would carry out. It only has estrogen like properties.

One reason I know this to be true, besides discussing it someone with a PHD, is that it is believed soy products will decrease the chance of breast cancer in women due to soy binding to these estrogen receptors on the human cells. Your body then thinks it has plenty of estrogen, and decreases the amount of estrogen production.

Plus, if you ask gay people, they will tell you they were born gay

Oh, I also totally disagree with his statement that women are default, assuming that more women are born than men. That is totally false. More men are actually born in this world, but men's deathrate is higher, and I believe by 16 or so it's close to 50/50 ratio of men to women, and as aging increases women edge out men 51% to 49%. I think it's a survival trait that more men tend to be born, as we are, evolutionarily speaking, the fighters, the gamblers, the hunters, risk takers, protectors, etc.