RE: Soy Boys II - Adverse estrogenic effects of soy-based infant formula?
oh nice article. I hope parents of girls will read this. I think anyway it is a false heuristic to think that a estrogen-receptor agonist leads always to fiminisation...its like always a litle more complex. For example the role of brain aromatase and androgene behavior: there are hints (its not well understood) that the effector for adrogenic behavior are in fact estrogene receptor dependent. Of course the higher the brain avaiable testo, the higher the aromatisation. No hormone is inherently male ore female they are molecules
But as a parent I would be more afraid of real hormone disruptors, besides this men today are kind of pussy, because there is a strong secular decrease of testosterone, compared to men from the 1950s
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17062768
I think its still not known why, obesity was not the cause.
Important points, thanks.
Men do have estrogens as well, but in quite low levels. They are important co-factors for sperm production, for example.
Also I would definatly say that isoflavones can be classified as endocrine disruptors...but I think they are far less dangerous than other chemicals of that group, like the mycotoxin zearalenone, some compounds used by the plastic industry (BPA, phtalates) or some pesticides.