[wowzap]

Yes, soy destroys almost all sexual organ/sexual development facets of the human experience. Just last week they found that women who were fed soy formula when they were babies have a higher risk of experiencing bad cramps during their period.

[GordonS]

How do you explain China's population of 1.3 billion?

[jstewartmobile]

Could be that different people with different genetics have different reactions to different foods throughout their lifetimes.

Most asians become lactose intolerant after infancy. Many western europeans don't. Just because the Chinese can handle soy like champs doesn't mean everyone else can.

[greenshackle2]

Soy is probably the most researched food in history, you can reach pretty much any conclusion you want if you cherry-pick your studies.

Analyses that don't cherry pick tend to conclude it's pretty safe.

[mkbgw]

This is quackery, as shown by this meta-study: "Soybean isoflavone exposure does not have feminizing effects on men" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20378106.

[virmundi]

I’m curious about who they measured. We already know that the US population of 30 year olds has roughly half the testosterone of their grandpas at the same age. If you’re only measuring the sick, so to speak, you might not find anything.

For anyone down voting, an open question in the paper is “do Asians have factors that might mitigate the phytoestrogens?” They don’t know.

As to evidence that levels are dropping, https://www.healio.com/endocrinology/hormone-therapy/news/pr...