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This might be completely hypothetical, but might there be a genetic component? I'm convinced (based on my heavy soy intake as an Asian male with no ill effects

• lambda 13y ago
  Yes, various people have posted links to a variety of studies that have been done, and it seems like there is a good deal of individual variation, and that these kinds of effects only happen to people who are particularly prone and replace the vast majority of their protein intake with soy. This has a summary of several pieces of research: http://examine.com/faq/is-soy-good-or-bad-for-me.html http://examine.com/faq/is-soy-good-or-bad-for-me.html
• shawnee_ 13y ago
  Yes, but not the genetics of humans. My guess would be that the genetics of the soybean plants would be a more likely culprit for any strange hormonal reactions in men: HT soybeans went from 17 percent of U.S. soybean acreage in 1997 to 68 percent in 2001 and 93 percent in 2013 source: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption.aspx http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-geneticall... The reality is that soybeans aren't genetically modified for nutritional reasons; they are modified for economic reasons, and GE foods haven't been around long enough for us to really know what kind of side-effects come from optimizing for the herbicide-tolerant "economics" side of GE.