Phyto-estrogens
(Soy protein)
Quick summary of the science :
Phytoestrogens are plant derived compounds found in a wide variety of foods, most notably soy. They exert an estrogen-like action on the body. Both too little and too much estrogen can be problematic. As a rule, small amounts of soy are not an issue, but large amounts can be.
Soy is not a health food – contains hormones that can interfere with your health.
Little girls play differently when they grow up on a soy-based formula
The sex hormones are involved in tweaking brain development, turning a baby’s brain into a little girl brain. The phytoestrogens in soy, disturb this process.
You’re getting a little or hell of a lot of estrogen with that hamburger
Instead of that beef burger, you choose a tofu burger. Did you know, that tofu burger has more estrogen in it, than a hormone replacement pill ?
Soy might not be protecting women from breast cancer
Tumour talk turns nasty in breast cancer cells, when women with breast cancer, sip on soy shakes.
Soy based formula floods baby’s system with lady hormones
A baby being fed soy-based formula is being exposed to 13 000 – 22 000 times more “estrogen” than normal, at a time when the brain and body is still developing
Soy is so-so when it comes to estrogen replacement therapy
Phytoestrogens chemically speaking, look a lot like the estrogen. Soy isoflavones may look the part but they’re not performing well as bone protectors.
Soy foods shooting down the little guys
We’ve been programmed to believe soy is a health food, but as far sperm are concerned, the lady of the soy bean wreaks havoc on sperm counts
Many man made chemicals also act like estrogen, they are referred to as xeno-estrogens or endocrine disrupting chemicals.
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