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now could you potentially be on birth

control without really being aware of it

today we’re going to discuss

soy

now what’s so bad about soy i mean it’s

a healthy product it’s in a lot of our

foods um it’s good for the heart

it’s good to help prevent breast cancer

and in asia they do tons of soy right it

can’t be that bad i mean if you just

look at the research i mean you’ll see

tons of study on the first five pages of

google endorsing soy as the next miracle

food

well

um i want to share some information from

a very interesting book that i am

reading right now it’s called the whole

soy

story by dr kayla daniel she has her phd

in nutritional sciences as well as being

a certified clinical nutritionist so i’m

going to put the link for her book down

below as well as all the research i’m

going to talk about well here’s the

thing about soy soy

um

acts very similar to estradiol okay in

our bodies now yes it is a thousand

times weaker

however it has a much higher affinity

for our receptors than our own estrogen

which means it can easily bind to these

estrogen receptors and create

some physiological responses so soy does

create an estrogenic effect on our

bodies so for people to say that the

science is settled don’t look at this

it’s we already know it’s safe you might

want to just take another look at what

i’m going to share with you

now as far as in asia it is true that

they consume maybe more soy however

it’s used as a condiment it’s not used

as your main food and it’s usually

always in the form of a fermented soy

product nato

miso

tofu and they don’t actually use the

form of soy that we use in america like

soy protein isolates hydrolyzed soy

proteins

and the highly refined soy oil which is

in oh my gosh it’s in hummus it’s in

salad dressing it’s in a lot of your

foods it’s actually even an oatmeal they

put it in sodas i mean it is like all

over our foods now it is true that the

japanese have a lower rate of breast

cancer however they have a higher rate

of other cancers that americans don’t

have so

if you really look at the research on

soy there’s a lot of mixed

conclusions

mainly based on who’s sponsoring the

study so let’s just go through this 1994

there was a an article written by the

american dietetic association that

stated that women trying to conceive

should avoid excessive soy and they

recommend having less than 60 grams a

day

now some people are going to say well

those are older studies well actually

there’s probably more integrity of some

of these older studies than there is

nowadays because they can make a study

come out any way that they want now if

you look at the physiology and this was

done in animal studies

soy can give an estrogenic effect that

can greatly affect

follicle stimulating hormone as well as

luteinizing hormone these are the two

hormones that are sent from the

pituitary down to your gonads and they

regulate estrogen progesterone and

testosterone so if you’re going to

suppress

follicular stimulating hormone and

luteinizing hormone you’re going to have

a less

release of the egg from the ovary and

that’s going to make you more infertile

it’s also going to affect the menstrual

cycle you may find your menstrual cycle

going longer you may find your menstrual

cycle actually not even occurring in

another study which i’ll put down below

in the thumbnail sketch the study said

that there is a less probability of

giving birth in a male study there was

shown to be lower sperm count

decreased erections

decreased libido

hot flashes

increase in breast tissue in male bodies

nipple discharge and lower testosterone

i mean if you think about who consumes

the most soy on a regular basis

it’s in the monasteries the monks in the

monasteries consume a tremendous amount

of soy and i think the reason they do it

is because it helps curb libido now the

other thing that’s interesting and it’s

hard to find

data on this topic is that 70 of all the

soy grown

is used in animal feeds so who knows

what that’s doing to our animals i know

it’s in dog food it’s in cat food it’s

actually even in fish food and the

reason i’m talking about that is because

we have animals now on my farm

and it’s very difficult to find feed

that is soy free

now the most problematic

thing that i see with soy is in the soy

based infant formulas so you’re going to

give soy to an infant the amount of soy

that you’re going to expose this infant

to is between six to nine milligrams per

kilogram of weight per day so there’s

been links to higher body weight i mean

estrogen is an anabolic hormone it makes

things get bigger and in some of these

infant formulas there’s an equivalent

estrogen if you compare their body

weight to an adult of taking roughly

three to five birth control pills a day

not to mention a lot of these infants

have allergies to soy and digestive

issues as far as the quality of protein

it’s not the best quality

this is why it’s so important to

encourage a mother to breastfeed now soy

in general is also linked to

hypothyroidism

endocrine problems digestive issues

and the list goes on and on so i really

suggest you should start to read labels

okay start reading labels um

like even like when you get hummus right

when the first ingredient is soy oil try

to find a dressing with other oils than

soy oil or corn oil unfortunately most

the soy out there is gmo and i think

globally we’re in this huge experiment

of

soy many of these

problematic ingredients

show up years later so i think it’s

really important to see the other side

of soy look at the pros and the cons and

then decide for yourself now if you have

not seen my video on estrogen dominance

i’m going to put it up right here check

it out