Yes, if you read guys like Ray Peat, it isn't so much the phytoestrogens in soy. It is that polyunsaturated fatty acids (aka "essential fatty acids") are themselves estrogenic and toxic in general. And soy bean oil is 70% polyunsaturated.
I have been trying to cut it out and it is a tricky thing, because it isn't some slightly gay soy protein powder that is the problem. It is in every restaurants deep fryer, every bag of chips and most premade foods at the grocery store.
The solutions (butter, cream, coconut oil) are tasty though, even if they aren't convenient.
I remember someone pointing out on a podcast that divorce rates started soaring the same time birth control was introduced. All by design.
The pill changes women's preferences in men.
When on the pill, the woman wants a more "beta/weaker" guy because the pill is tricking the woman's body into thinking that she is pregnant.
Once off the pill, they end up despising their husbands due to wanting a stronger/more alpha guy. The guy didn't change, the woman did.
Unfortunately, the poor guys have been subjected to their own chemical alterations and they're changing too. Soy Boy is real.
Yes, if you read guys like Ray Peat, it isn't so much the phytoestrogens in soy. It is that polyunsaturated fatty acids (aka "essential fatty acids") are themselves estrogenic and toxic in general. And soy bean oil is 70% polyunsaturated.
I have been trying to cut it out and it is a tricky thing, because it isn't some slightly gay soy protein powder that is the problem. It is in every restaurants deep fryer, every bag of chips and most premade foods at the grocery store.
The solutions (butter, cream, coconut oil) are tasty though, even if they aren't convenient.