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Myth. There's much more estrogen in dairy. Milk is packed with hormones. It comes from a female cow after giving birth for heavens sake.

• sethammons 9y ago
  "The bullets from handguns." "Myth. There's much more 'bullet' to a rifle round." Just because there may be more estrogen in milk, how does that take away from the estrogen in soy?
  • dashundchen 9y ago
    Soy doesn't contain estrogen, it contains phytoestrogens. This is a common misunderstanding. Phytoestrogens include isoflavones in soy, which can have a wide variety of effects, (including decreasing estrogen levels) depending on gut flora, age, sex, hormone levels https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/
  • leakyabs 9y ago
    The good news is that a) it isn’t estrogen in soy but a chemical that mimics it in the body, and b) it doesn’t turn men into women.