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Posted by: Dr. Pain

http://www.mercola.com/2003/apr/5/soy_shadow.htm

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One of the biggest concerns about high intake of soy isoflavones is their clearly defined toxic effect on the thyroid gland.

Posted by: MeanCuts

Your such a soy hater DP

Posted by: Dr. Pain

I see too many fucked up thyroids/metabolisms and estrogen dominance everyday.......really!

I think I'm allergic to estrogen!

Posted by: MeanCuts

I eat soy nuts 2-3 times a week think i'll live?

Posted by: kuso

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Originally posted by MeanCuts
I eat soy nuts 2-3 times a week think i'll live?

I do. I also think you`ll have less chance of forming certain cancers.

Posted by: Prince

Soy gives me gas!

Posted by: DaMayor

Thanks for sharing......Kuso gives me gas.

Posted by: MeanCuts

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Originally posted by Prince
Soy gives me gas!

Protein shakes give me gas sometimes but I still drink them

Posted by: Prince

yeah, but Soy is shit.

Posted by: MeanCuts

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Originally posted by Prince
yeah, but Soy is shit.

No way,soy is just as good if not better than other nuts

Posted by: Dr. Pain

Actually not...you'd find walnuts and many others to be"superior" Nutritionally

Posted by: MeanCuts

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Originally posted by Dr. Pain
Actually not...you'd find walnuts and many others to be"superior" Nutritionally

Doesn't look "superior" to me

http://www.diet-data.com/legumes/soy.../without_salt/

http://www.diet-data.com/nuts_and_se...k/dried/#10036

Posted by: Prince

Soy is shit.

Posted by: MeanCuts

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Originally posted by Prince
Soy is shit.

Just as long as your open minded about it Prince

Posted by: kuso

Soybean Consumption & Disease Incidence
Soy intake is extensively documented to have retrospective epidemiologal links to disease prevention.

Data on Soy Consumption and Cancer, Heart Disease and Menopausal Syndrome Prevention: In Countries around the World, especially in the East, soy consumption is strongly linked with cancer rate reduction, especially, breast, colo-rectal, stomach, lung and prostate, significantly reducted heart disease rates, and especially reduction of menopausal symptomatologies such that the need for hormone replacement therapies might be precluded:

The greater share of US soy is grown for animal livestock feed, much of the balance is shipped to Japan for human consumption. The US breast cancer rate is four-fold that of Japan, five-fold that of China, and TEN-fold that of Korea--one in nine American women will get breast cancer, the US prostate cancer rates are comparatively five-fold, thirty-fold and six-fold, respectively--one in eleven American men will get prostate cancer. And, interestingly, Japanese and American men experience the same rate of histologic prostate cancer, yet American men suffer five times the clinical rate. Soy inclusion into Eastern diets does not wholly verify attribution as these diets are lower in fat, animal product and higher in fruit, vegetable and fiber than US diets. And yet, retrospective epidemiologic links reflect that frequent consumption of whole soyfoods reduces cancer, heart disease and menopausal symptomatology rates as evidenced by the following examples:

A 1,500 subject Chinese lung cancer incidence study linked inversely proportional soy consumption with lung cancer incidence; the highest intake showing up to a 50% reduction.
Eight thousand Japanese-American males consuming tofu once per week were three times as likely to get prostate cancer as those who ate it daily.
Familial hypercholesterolemic children from Austria on 30% fat diet (Type II) plus 20% soy protein achieved a 37% reduction in LDL without much effect on HDL cholesterol.
In a China study soy consuming subjects experienced one third the rectal cancer rates of light consumers.
In a Japan study, soybean or tofu consumption of 1-2 servings a week reduced the rectal cancer risk by 80%+ and colon cancer by 40%+.
In a Singapore study, women with the lowest, i.e. 50% breast cancer risk had consumed about two servings or 55 grams of soy per day compared with nonconsumers or rare consumers.
In China, soy milk consumption was linked with 50% risk reduction for stomach cancer, and 40% lower for regular soy consumption.
In Hong Kong daily consumption allowed for a 50% reduction in lung cancer incidence compared to much lower consumptions.
In the US tofu consumption was linked with 50% reduction in colon cancer rates.
Japanese Hawaiians consuming tofu experienced a third lower risk of stomach cancer than non-consumers.
Many studies point to LDL cholesterol reduction by a minimum of 15% or more via inclusion of soy protein in the diet, especially in conjunction with a low cholesterol diet.
Mildly hypercholesterolemic men from the University of Illinois achieved significant blood LDL cholesterol reduction from a 50 g protein intake from soy milk versus casein or milk protein.
Soymilk has been shown to inhibit the oxidisability of LDL cholesterol in humans.
Miso soup was implicated as preventing Nagasaki radiation damage in human patients, and in another study in a 66% risk reduction for stomach cancer.
Italian familial hypercholesterolemic children on a concurrent low fat/soy protein (20 g per day) diet reduced LDL cholesterol by 26%
Japanese men adding 20 g soy protein without other changes to the diet experienced lowered cholesterol levels.
Soy also blocks formation of nitrosamines, the worlds most dreaded carcinogen, leading to liver cancer. Soy substances did the job better than ascorbate, which is put into cured meats which contain nitrates and nitrites, explicitly to inhibit nitrosamines.
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Posted by: kuso

Soy As An Antiestrogen
A review of endogenous (made within the body) hormones and their relationship to cancers will help elucidate the potential for soy as an antiestrogen.
Too much of the hormones you make naturally can increase your risk of cancer; soy helps diminish the risk.

Breast cancer rates are linked in with a woman's reproductive history. The longer the body is bathed with estrogens, the higher is a woman's risk of developing cancer. The earlier a woman starts menstruating and the later she stops, the higher is her risk for cancer, especially breast cancer. If a woman has had few or no pregnancies and long reproductive years, she has a higher risk of getting breast cancer. Women are less at risk for developing breast cancer, however, if they have an early menopause or if they have their ovaries removed surgically so that menopause is induced, however other complications from hormone replacement therapies for oophorectimized (removal of the ovaries) women will usually outweigh the benefits of lowered breast cancer risk.

The older a woman is when she first becomes pregnant, the higher is her risk of developing breast cancer. A woman who delivers her first child after the age of 35 has a threefold higher risk of developing breast cancer than a woman who bears her first child before the age of 18. Women who never become pregnant and women who never menstruate have a three or four times higher risk of developing cancer, especially breast cancer. In addition, if a woman had an abortion in the first trimester of her first pregnancy, whether it was spontaneous or induced, she is 2.5 times more likely to develop breast cancer.

Women with "lumpy breast disorders" fibrocystic disease --of which some conditions can be inconsequential--others can predispose to breast cancer-- is affected by caffeine, hormonal changes, reduction in fat intake. A USC study showed exercise in females reduced estrogen levels leading to irregular menses but also reduced breast cancer incidence. Soy intake can increase an average menstrual cycle by 2.5 days, which means a lower concentration of estrogen exposure of breast tissue over time.

Since soybeans are full of plant estrogens and estrogen promotes breast cancer, how do soybeans prevent breast cancer? It's a paradox; soybeans seem to mimic the body's estrogen without having its detrimental effects.

Posted by: kuso

FOCUS on Hormone-Related Conditions: Menopause and Cancer...
There's no word for "hot flash" in the Japanese language. Why the difference in rates of hormone related and other cancers (in both men and women) and vastly lower rates of menopausal symptoms between the US and Asian countries? The link points to soy consumption: For over 2,000 years the Asian diet has included foods made from the soybean; the typical Asian woman consumes 30-50 mg isoflavones from her soyfoods, often up to 100 mg per day without side effects or known toxicities. Soybean isoflavones are phytoestrogens, natural compounds which manipulate estrogen as well as directly inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, theoretically reducing the risk of breast cancer in women of all ages. Genistein, the most potent isoflavone, is similar to tamoxifen, given to certain women to help prevent breast cancer and its spread. More: Phytoestrogens given to animals in the form of a high soy diet were protected against carcinogen-induced cancers. Rats fed soy had 40-65% fewer breast cancers. Also, genistein alone protected against breast tumors. Studies are ongoing to determine if soy milk diminishes the biological risk for breast cancer in women as predicted via epidemiological retrospective studies from Singapore where women halved their risk via double the normal soy intake. Dr. Herman Adlercreutz at the University of Helsinki found that Japanese near Kyoto with the highest urine concentrations of isoflavonoids were protected against breast and prostate cancer. Typically the women ate three ounces of soy products a day, including tofu, miso, fermented soy and boiled soybeans.
Potential synergy with isoflavones and other estrogenic phytosterols may prove important as opposed to one single molecular entity such as genistein.

Soy's isoflavone genistein, again, is a natural analog to the drug tamoxifen, which is also, oddly, an estrogen with antiestrogen activity. Thus, both soy and tamoxifen seem to block estrogen's ability to stimulate malignant (tumor promoting) changes in breast tissue, while promoting beneficial effects on the skeleton and cardiovascular system. Other soy compounds may also halt the growth of cancerous cells even though they do not have any estrogen receptors to block, meaning soy may fight cancer in at least two or more separate ways. Thus, soy may help prevent cancer in both pre and post menopausal women, independently of estrogen supplies. Isoflavones also have been shown to destroy certain cancer gene enzymes that can propagate and transform a normal cell into a cancer cell, cause cancer cell differentiation (reverting it back to normal states), and inhibit blood vessel growth to larger tumors.

Isoflavones are a type of estrogen, though 500-1,000 fold weaker than human estrogen. Called an "estrogenomimetic", since it mimics estrogen, soy isoflavones "clog up" estrogen receptor sites on cells of say the breast tissue, blocking potent estrogen from linking up, affecting cell turnover rates, which also increase the rate of DNA reproduction and thus the possibilities for mutations or errors, which can lead to malignant transformations, or cancer. Soy isoflavones diminish the possibilities of mutations leading to cancer in estrogen-responsive tissues by slowing cell turnover rates. But at the same time these molecules occupy estrogen receptor sites on the cell, isoflavones produce mild estrogenic effects, enough to, ongoing studies show, potentially calm the symptoms of menopause.

Posted by: kuso

What Is "IN" Soy?
Chemopreventive Activity of Soy Phytochemicals
As a result of a NCI June 27, 1990 Symposium on the Anticancer Effects of Soybeans, the participants agreed that soy played a strong role in preventing cancer and identified five individual anticarcinogens in soybeans, after which time NIC allocated $3 million for research on the anticancer effects of soybeans. Soy phytochemicals address a Soy phytochemicals address a wide range of conditions.

Following is a listing detailing the phytochemical components of greatest interest as well as their mechanisms of action and efficacy study results.

Isoflavones
Isoflavones in soy are a unique and critical component for inclusion into the diets of everyone. Isoflavones can help prevent breast cancer and other estrogen responsive cancers, and may have potential as a low dose (40 - 50 mg per day) substitute for hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women by forestalling complications of menopause in women such as vulvovaginal dryness and hot flashes while simultaneously reducing the risks for heart disease via cholesterol reduction.
Also reduced is LDL oxidation which can lead to atherosclerosis, and blood thinning helping to prevent heart attacks and stroke. Additionally, isoflavones may prevent or slow prostate cancer growth in men significantly. Isoflavones help prevent DNA damage leading to mutations by acting as antioxidants, block blood vessel growth to tumors (antiantiogenesis factors), cause certain tumor cells to revert to their `differentiated' or noncancerous state, and inhibit tumor cells by inhibiting their products.

Soybeans are quite uniquely rich in phytoestrogens called isoflavones resemble estrogens greatly in structure acting as strong competetive estrogen receptor weak agonists--estrogenomimetics. In vying for receptors yet eliciting little signal potency in high estrogen females, they act as antiestrogens and in fact mute administered estrogens in test subjects. Isoflavones are orally absorbed, achieve good blood levels and genistein is excreted renally as equol in the urine of most people.

In one study women's menstrual cycles were increased by 2.5 days per cycle, additionally the gonadal-pituitary axis was affected with decreased LHRH levels as well; thus overall long term soy intake reduces replication thus, the mutation rate of mammary tissue.

Isoflavones increase hepatic P450 isozymes and prostglandin synthase and reduce Benzo[a]pyrene metabolism. Tamoxifen utilized in estrogen receptor positive mammary tumor patients or high-risk breast cancer patients as an estrogen blocker enigmatically also shows proestrogenic effects likely attributable to a dual isomeric version of the drug molecules whereas genistein, daidzen and other isoflavones are strongly estrogen receptor competitive weak agonists. Tamoxifen is being utilized as an antiestrogen in a 16,000 woman breast cancer chemoprevention study by the NCI.

Retrospective epidemiologic attribution links isoflavones to a reduced breast cancer risk with vegetarian and Asian groups commensurate with high isoflavone renal product excretion. Animal cancer soy inclusion dietary studies show at least a 50% reduction in breast and prostate tumors compared to isoflavone absent soy controls. Over 200 scientific papers published on genistein detail in vitro cancer cell inhibition for mammary, colon, prostate, lung, skin and leukemia cancer cell lines.

Animal in vivo data show that genistein directly inhibits skin and precolon tumors. Genistein is a good antioxidant, an extremely potent tyrosine kinase inhibitor; tyrosine kinase concentration in breast epithelium being a good indicator as to malignancy-- and other oncogene protein product inhibitor--the theory being that if you can inhibit the activity of this enzyme along with others overproduced you can stop a normal cell from being transformed into a cancer cell.

When DNA damage has accumulated beyond repair and an inheritable irreversible mutation (such as a deletion of a tumor-suppression gene) has occurred, usually oncogenes become activated. When this happens, oncogene protein products, usually enzymes like tyrosine kinase get over-expressed. If these isoflavones get into the breast compartment and keep this oncogene product in check, it may partially explain lower incidences of breast cancer as seen in Oriental women who consume up to 100 mg of isoflavones daily as opposed to Western families.

Genistein causes direct tumor cell differentiation (of de-differentiated cells) and acts as an antiangiogenesis factor slowing tumor growth, though at higher levels than required to initially prevent cancer cell growth. Additionally, genistein affects atherosclerosis thus heart disease in its antithrombin effects, inhibitory activity of smooth muscle cell proliferation hence plaque formation and antioxidant qualities preventing oxidation of LDL. By adding isoflavones to the diet, cholesterol levels can drop by as much as 35%. A recent study showed that genistein inhibited human prostate cancer cell lines and may possibly delay onset of clinical prostate cancer by 10-15 years. Genistin is the beta-glucoside conjugate of genistein; genistein and soybean flour with genistin reserves and normal genistein levels were both shown to induce P450 xenobiotic metabolizing isozymes, likely though genistein which is highest in fermented soy is better assimilated, genistein in lower levels in nonfermented still shows activity, and higher quantities of the less pungent nonfermented products can be consumed, which do exhibit the chemopreventive effects.

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Saponins

Posted by: kuso

Saponins
Saponins may prevent cancer by protecting DNA from damage, are antiviral in in vitro studies, and directly inhibits colon cancer. Saponins may be cardioprotective via their ability to lower cholesterol.

Saponins have a potential role as cancer preventive agents acting as antioxidants, antimutagens and even antiretrovirals in vitro HIV studies and anti-DNA virals in Epstein-Barr virus inhibition studies. In one study, saponins were shown to directly inhibit colon cancer. Possible attribution as a colon cancer preventive based on retrospective epidemiologic studies of vegetarians and Asian populations places saponins intake as a possible important chemopreventive measure. Saponins can stimulate immunity, directly slay certain cancer cells, slow the growth of cancerous cervical and skin cells, and can even reverse the proliferation of cancerous colon cells. The Japanese eat five times these cancer fighters than Americans; Westernized vegetarians eat about 345 mg saponins per day. Saponins are steroid glycosides with detergent properties, sometimes used as foaming agents in foods and cosmetics, they very often have low LD50's and often potent medicinal effects. Soy saponins resemble cholesterol in structure and are thought to lower cholesterol by enhancing excretion or blocking absorption of cholesterol.

Calvert, GD, et al. A trial of the effects of soya-bean flour and soya-bean saponins on plasma lipids, faecal bile acids and neutral sterols in hypercholesterolaemic men. Br J Nutr 45:277-281, 1981.

Elias, R, et al. Antimutagenic activity of some saponins isolated from Calendula officianalis L, C. arvenis L. and Hedera helix L. Mutagenesis 5:327-331, 1990.

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Tanizam, H. et al. Inhibitory effect of soyasaponins on the increase of lipid peroxide by adriamycin (ADR) in mice. Proc Symp Wakan-Yaku 15:119-123, 1982.

Tokuda, H., et al. Inhibitory effects of 12-O-tetrdecanoylphorbol-13-acetate and teleocidin B induced Epstein-Barr virus by saponin and its related compounds. Cancer Lett 40:309-317, 1988.

Phytosterols
Phytosterols may help prevent heart disease and certain cancers, especially colon cancer by inhibiting cell division and proliferation:
Phytosterols are plant steroidal-like compounds similar to cholesterol in appearance. Sitosterol for example differs by only an ethyl group on C-24 from the animal version of the cholesterol molecule--the soy stigmasterols are used as precursors for steroid drug syntheses. The soy sterols, are not physiologically active, are not highly absorbed and precipitate bile acids thus reducing enterohepatic recycling of colon tumor-promoting biliary components which may result in oxidative damage to crypt cells and micronuclei accumulation. One type of phytosterol in the lab reduced colon tumor incidence by 50 percent, and was effective against skin cancer; retrospective epidemiologic studies possibly implicate phytosterols with the low incidence of colon cancer in Japanese, vegetarians, and Seventh Day Adventists, though again attribution is difficult in that these populations generally consume more plant foods. Our western diet yields 80 mg of phytosterols per day; the Japanese consume about 400 mg per day.

Deschner, EE et al. The kinetics of the protective effect of Beta-sitosterol against MNU-induced colonic neoplasia. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 103:49-52, 1982.

Hirai K. et al. Cholesterol, phytosterol and polyunsaturated fatty acid levels in 1982 and 1957 Japanese diets. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol 32:363-372, 1986.

Janezic, S, et al. Role of dietary phytosterol in colon carcinogenesis. Abstr Proc 34th Annu Mtg Can Fed Biol Soc., Kingston, Ontario, 1991.

Raicht RF, et al. Protective effect of plant sterols against chemically induced colon tumors in rats. Cancer Res 40:4-3-405, 1980.

Weihrauch, JL et al. Sterol content of foods of plant origin. JADA 73:399-47. Hill, MJ. Bile acids and colorectal cancer: hypothesis. Eur J. Cancer Prev 1 (Suppl 2):69-73, 1991

Yasukawa, K., et al. Sterol and triterpene derivatives from plants inhibit the effects of tumor promoter and sitosterol and betulinic acid inhibit tumor formatin in mouse skin two-stage carcinogenesis. Oncology 48:72-76, 1991.

Posted by: Dr. Pain

Excellent research and posting Kuso

Primarily the reasons why we were very "Pro-soy" until maybe 3 or 4 years ago.....(please note the age of most of the references)

A lot of the research focusing on foods and fermented soy products...not concentrates and isolates. (With the contention always that feremnted soy products have always been beneficial)

When certain isoflavones began to become prevelant in the Women's Health field (esp for hot flashes and hormonal balancing), questions began to arise concerning estrogen linked cancers.....it was found the "Red Clover" had more beneficial properties than soy, w/o the soy's constituents exerting a stronger estrogenic effect than prevously thought, soy is now being avoided at all cost by women w/breast cancer (stats are heading to 1 in 3 will contract breast cancer during their life) esp estrogen related BC.

Soy formula even before the GMO controversy has be proven to be estrogenic (young girls reaching puberty much sooner on soy).....and goiter tropic.....the thyroid controversy just coming to light.

We can't dismiss soys benfits as "Old research"......but we must filter in the new data and let each individual decide if soy is right for them. With the amount of hypothyroidism I see......I see a definite corelation to soy consumption, and feel prone to advise people to avoid, or carefully consider "excess" soy intake!

Excellent thread developing here!

DP

Posted by: Dr. Pain

Small addendum...circa 1992-93...the USDA dictated the "Food Pyramind" based on studies (perhaps funded by the wrong groups, Ornish et al)....in an effort to "improve health!"

Eat this way and lower heart disease, obesity, etc....but what happened...

The Obesity rate doubled, the diabetic rate doubled, and age onset diabetics never/hardly before seen in people under the late thirties, is now common in 8 year olds.

Of course there are several factors in this, but the point being that the Pyramid was the "science of the time"....as I believe we wil come to look at some of the research on soy!

JMHO

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Pain
it was found the "Red Clover" had more beneficial properties than soy,

I`d be very interested on any studies/reasearch you may have on this, as well as on the the affects on goiter and other thyroid problems relating to soy.

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Pain
thought, soy is now being avoided at all cost by women w/breast cancer (stats are heading to 1 in 3 will contract breast cancer during their life) esp estrogen related BC.

I believe in Oz those stats are correct for both breast, and prostate cancer. I do find the statement rather surprising though. I`ve never seen anywhere warning against soy for those with breast cancer, and as you know, Japan has the lowest levels of both cancers in the world, with one of the highest intacts of a variety of soys.

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Pain
We can't dismiss soys benfits as "Old research"......but we must filter in the new data and let each individual decide if soy is right for them.

I couldn`t agree more, which is why I posted. it is also quite difficult to find much recent main streem research into soy at all which makes things harder.

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Pain

Of course there are several factors in this, but the point being that the Pyramid was the "science of the time"....as I believe we wil come to look at some of the research on soy!

Of course, we could also find out that the research that "proved" the negative attributes of soy to have been funded by "the wrong gruops" too

Posted by: Dr. Pain

We are going to have to leave the research to others...time constraints for me...

I am aware of the positve research...and the Japanese research including "Brain Shrinkage" from soy consumption (seriously)...and have no doubt that "soy foods" having been around for more than 5000 years have, beneficial properties

The Pain's have eaten mega soy over the years...lol

MP and I suffer from hypothyroidism (runs in her family, not mine), and MP suffers form Estrogen Dominance........we have also seen a corealtion, perhaps form the other differences in the American versus Japanese diet, where soy has contributed to both good and bad estrogens, stalled w8 loss, and it's avoidance has been the suggestion of many local Doctors/Oncologists in all Breast Cancers...not just Estrogen linked (why take risks)

Conversely, we have local Cardiogists/Urologists promoting soy, esp in men for the the reduction of Test, increases in Estrogen for treating Prostate Cancer (the wrong approach), and reduction of Cholesterol, theoretically reducing CHD..(again the wrong approach)

Posted by: Dr. Pain

Quote:

Originally posted by kuso
Of course, we could also find out that the research that "proved" the negative attributes of soy to have been funded by "the wrong gruops" too

Agreed!

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Pain
stalled w8 loss, and it's avoidance has been the suggestion of many local Doctors/Oncologists in all Breast Cancers...not just Estrogen linked (why take risks)

It`s late, and my brain is fried, but why is this even an issue? Sufferers of breast cancer normally waste away anyway so I`m sure none of them would care too much about a little bit of bw left on...........I must be missing the issue here.

Posted by: kuso

A more recent one, and one that has a lose connection to my other thread in here....

Soy protein prevents skin tumors from developing in mice, UC Berkeley researchers find
15 October 2001
By Sarah Yang, Media Relations

Berkeley - New research at the University of California, Berkeley, may add yet another boost to the healthy reputation of the humble soybean. A study published Oct. 15 in the journal Cancer Research shows that mice with the soy protein lunasin applied to their skin had significantly lower rates of skin cancer than mice without the lunasin treatment.
More than two years ago, the same UC Berkeley researchers discovered that injecting the lunasin gene into cancer cells in a culture stopped cell division. In their latest work, they tested whether the lunasin protein could prevent normal cells from becoming cancerous in both cell cultures and in mice.

In the study, varying doses of lunasin were applied to groups of mice over a period of 19 weeks. They were compared with a control group that had received no lunasin treatments. After the mice were exposed to chemical carcinogens, the group that had received the highest lunasin dose of 125 micrograms twice a week had a 70 percent lower incidence of tumors than the control group.

"In the high dose group, some mice did develop some tumors, but there were fewer tumors per mouse and there was a two-week delay in their appearance compared with the control group," said Ben O. de Lumen, nutritional sciences professor in UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources and principal investigator of the study.

De Lumen is a member of UC Berkeley's Health Sciences Initiative, a partnership among biomedical sciences and technology programs geared towards advancing research into today's major health problems. He heads the lab where lunasin's anti-cancer properties were first discovered, and where Alfredo Galvez, lead author of the study, worked as a post-doc researcher. Other authors of the report include Na Chen, a doctoral student, and Janet Macasieb, an undergraduate student, both from the Division of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology at UC Berkeley.

The researchers got clues on how lunasin works through tests in cell cultures. They showed that lunasin binds to deacetylated histones, a specific form of protein in a cell that helps package the long strands of DNA into tight coils. Lunasin seems to target cells before these histones undergo acetylation, a crucial step recently linked to cell proliferation and the formation of cancer.

In one of the tests, the cells from a lunasin culture showed an 80 percent lower incidence of transformation into cancer cells compared with non-lunasin cultures after exposure to carcinogens.

"The chemical changes that occur in normal cells before and during cancer formation signal lunasin," said de Lumen. "We believe lunasin is like a watchdog; it's out there sniffing. When it sees a normal cell transforming, it gets in there and attacks the cell."

Studies on the health effects of soy products have been building over the years. Epidemiological studies in Japan and China, where soy-rich diets are common, show people in those regions have significantly lower rates of certain cancers and heart disease than people in Western countries, where typical diets contain little to no soy.

In 1999, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed manufacturers to use food labels stating that eating 25 grams of soy protein a day may help reduce the risk of heart disease. Foods must contain at least 6.5 grams of soy protein per serving to qualify for the label.

Much of the spotlight has focused on isoflavones, a soy phytoestrogen that acts like a weak form of the hormone estrogen, and the Bowman-Birk protease inhibitor (BBI), another soy component with potential anti-cancer properties.

Galvez, who has since co-founded a biotech company in Fairfield, Calif., said lunasin stands out among the other soy agents because of its unique mechanism of action. "It's based on chromatin modification, which now a lot of cancer researchers are investigating," he said.

Still, many promising anti-cancer agents never make it from the lab onto drugstore shelves, and research into lunasin is still in its infancy, said de Lumen. But he said this study suggests interesting directions for future studies and applications of lunasin.

"The key for developing a product into oral medicine is the bioavailability of the compound," said de Lumen. "How much of it is absorbed, and how much ends up in the tissue? For lunasin, we don't know the answer, yet. But the obvious application of this result is that we could formulate a lunasin product that could be applied to the skin. It could maybe be applied in a sunscreen."

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Pain
We are going to have to leave the research to others...time constraints for me...

Well, I had a very quick look, and found this quote, so will leave it til I have some time to do some snopping, unless someone has a study NOT finaced by them?

Quote:

Most of the studies on red clover have been sponsored by Novogen, a company that produces a red clover product called Promensil.

Posted by: Twin Peak

Kuso, soy sucks. Get over it.

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Twin Peak
Kuso, soy sucks. Get over it.

Sucks for what though? Over all health or as a protein supp? As for the latter I agree completely, otherwise...show me the studies that refute all of the former ones?

(And no, I don`t mean the one article at test )

Posted by: Twin Peak

Well, I really was just giving you a hard time. Oh well.

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Twin Peak
Well, I really was just giving you a hard time. Oh well.

I knew that by the fact that

a) There was no smilies

and most of all

b) because you agreed with Prince

Posted by: Twin Peak

I guess I was successful, since you were defensive!

Nor would I make such a statement without having a legitimate argument backing it up.

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Twin Peak

Nor would I make such a statement without having a legitimate argument backing it up.

No, but you would just to get a rise from me

And I think you are missunderstanding defensiveness with general irritation with this thread.

Posted by: Twin Peak

Rather, I think you are confusing the two.

Posted by: MeanCuts

Quote:

Originally posted by kuso
Sucks for what though? Over all health or as a protein supp? As for the latter I agree completely, otherwise...show me the studies that refute all of the former ones?

(And no, I don`t mean the one article at test )

Exactly,sucks for what?

Posted by: kuso

See TP, my reply to your first succeded in its purpose.

Posted by: Twin Peak

Answer: human consumption.

Posted by: Dr. Pain

Soy Protein: Panacea or Poison?

By Don Matesz

The soy bean is the darling of the health food industry these days, and soy products are most highly and fraudulently touted of all health food products. Reading all the popular press on soy products, one would naturally believe that soy is a panacea and ideal substitute for animal protein in human diets. It is claimed that soy protein is of the same quality as animal protein, yet lower in fat and devoid of cholesterol. Soy promoters make many unsubstantiated claims, especially regarding soy isoflavones, estrogen-like molecules (called xenoestrogens) found the bean. It is claimed that these isoflavones from soy products will prevent breast cancer and osteoporosis and serve as estrogen replacements for post-menopausal women. In fact, according to some prominent soy researchers, the evidence for these claims is very weak (see below).

Promoters of soy commonly point to the low rates of heart disease, breast and prostate cancer, osteoporosis, and symptoms of menopause in Asia and claim that this is due to the "soy-based" Asian diet. But it is a stretch of imagination to call the Asian diet "soy-based". According to the non-profit Soy On Line Service (www.soyonlineservice.co.nz), the typical Japanese diet contains only 0.08 to 0.13 mg isoflavones per kg of body weight per day. That means only 5.6 to 9.1 mg of isoflavones per day for a 70 kg/154 lb. person. This amount is found in about 8 grams-less than one third of an ounce-of whole soybeans! Compare this to the average 3 to 4 pounds of food eaten daily by the typical individual. One-third of an ounce represents only 0.5 percent of the Japanese diet; one ounce is 1.5 percent of the diet.

This pattern of soy consumption is found throughout Asia, where soy is consumed primarily as a part of very salty fermented seasonings, in the form of shoyu (wheat and soy sauce), tamari (wheat-free soy sauce), or miso paste. Asians are not snacking on soy "nuts", drinking soy milk, using isolated soy protein, and eating tofu burgers or soy hot dogs three times per day. Thus, Asians do not eat a soy-based diet! It includes some soy but it is not a major article of diet as implied by the word "based."

This casts doubt on the claim that soy is the secret to Asian health. Consuming only as little as 9 grams of soy and 9 mg of isoflavones per day, Asians purportedly have much lower rates of heart disease, breast and prostate cancer, osteoporosis, and menopause compared to Americans. Nevertheless, promoters of soy are suggesting that protection from heart disease, etc. requires consumption of 25 grams of soy protein per day, which can provide up to 5 times as much isoflavones as found in the typical Asian diet.

In addition, traditional fermented soy foods are quite different from the processed soy foods promoted in "health food" markets. Soy beans contain various harmful anti-nutrients, including trypsin inhibitors that block protein digestion and phytates that block mineral absorption. Traditional long term fermenting (3 to 48 months) of soy beans to produce soy sauces and miso pastes destroys significant amounts of these anti-nutrients, whereas modern factory processing to produce soy sauces, soy milk, tofu, and mock meats does not remove those harmful elements.

Recently, in response to a petition submitted to the FDA by Protein Technologies International (PTI), a division of DuPont corporation that manufactures Supro® brand soy protein, the FDA has allowed the following health claim to be attached to soy products containing soy protein: "Diets low in saturated fat and cholesterol that include 25 grams of soy protein a day may reduce the risk of heart disease." This claim was allowed supposedly based on some clinical trials which show adding soy protein to a diet low in fat and cholesterol will result in decreases in cholesterol beyond what occurs as a result of a low-fat, low cholesterol diet alone. However, other studies have not shown such a benefit. Therefore, the allowed claim conveys uncertainty, by the phrase "may reduce the risk..." Also note that the possible benefit of soy consumption is promised only in conjunction with a diet low in fat and cholesterol, which itself "may" reduce the risk of heart disease (another uncertainty)-so if your risk goes down when consuming soy as part of a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, is this due to the soy, or the diet?

Similar uncertainty exists with regard to soy and other putative health benefits. Some studies have suggested that consuming soy reduces hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms and increases bone density among post-menopausal women-while others have not.

Clearly, this is an experiment untried on a large scale. Promoters of soy suggest that it is safe to consume soy in almost any quantity but this has not been proven true. In fact, there is some rather strong evidence that ingesting soy on a daily basis, even in rather modest quantities, and certainly in large quantities, may have serious adverse effects on endocrine functions, immune system functions, and brain cell repair.

Here are the details:

Protein Quality
Soy salesmen claim that soy protein is equal to animal protein. Their claims are aided by the FDA's endorsement of the Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (PDCAAS), which uses soy protein as the standard. However, the PDCAAS disregards digestibility, rating proteins only by their amino acid score; and further, the FDA simply defined soy protein as the standard, even though animal proteins have superior digestibility and amino acid profiles. Outside the FDA, nutritional biochemists still rate proteins according to biological value, and the standard for biological value is human milk protein (an animal protein), which is given a score of 100. The biological value of soy protein is only 73, and all animal proteins rate superior to soy protein on the scale of biological value, with egg and whey protein at the top of the heap, equal to human milk.

Reproductive Function
Soy isoflavones are estrogen-like molecules. Environmental toxicologists refer to such things as xenoestrogens. Many health care professionals are extremely concerned that human health is adversely affected by increasing intake of xenoestrogens, including soy isoflavones, because they stimulate various undesirable growth processes in girls and women, and may interfere with normal hormone dependent development of boys and functional capacities of men.
In 1997, researchers reported that "The daily exposure of infants to isoflavones in soy infant formulas is 6- to 11 fold higher on a body weight basis than the dose that has hormonal effects in adults consuming soy foods. Circulating concentrations of isoflavones in the seven infants fed soy-based formula were 13000-22000 times higher than plasma oestradiol concentrations in early life, and may be sufficient to exert biological effects, whereas the contribution of isoflavones from breast-milk and cow-milk is negligible." [Lancet 1997 Jul 5, 350: 9070, 23-7]

In 1998 researchers from New Zealand reported that the rate of isoflavone intake in infants fed soy-based formulas, cereals, dinners, and biscuits "is much greater than that shown in adult humans to alter reproductive hormones." They advised: "Since the available evidence suggests that infants can digest and absorb dietary phytoestrogens in active forms and since neonates are generally more susceptible than adults to perturbations of the sex steroid milieu, we suggest that it would be highly desirable to study the effects of soy isoflavones on steroid-dependent developmental processes in human babies. [Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1998 Mar 217: 3, 247-53]

Previous to these recent studies, in 1982, pediatric endocrinologists in Puerto Rico reported an increase in the incidence of premature breast development in girls under eight years of age. Of 130 cases studied, 85 involved breast development in girls under 18 months of age. Of those 85 cases, 22 were found associated with use of soy formula, rich in isoflavones. [Am J Dis Child1986 Dec 140: 12 1263-7]

The evidence for cancer preventive properties of soy foods and isoflavones is rather weak.1 Some epidemiological studies have shown a relation between soy consumption and protection from breast and endometrial cancer, but they have not been able to separate the effect of soy from that of other significant factors of Asian diets, such as low fat and high fiber, fish, whole grain, vegetable, fruit and non-soy legume intake-especially since soy is such a small part of Asian diets. Meanwhile, some clinical evidence suggests that high doses of isolated soy protein and isoflavones (not parts of traditional Asian diets) actually may be cancer promoters.

In 1996, one group of researchers fed 38 grams of soy protein isolate containing 38 mg of isoflavones to both pre- and post- menopausal women for five months. It is of interest to note that these researchers reported "No changes were found in plasma prolactin, sex hormone binding globulin, cholesterol, high density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations."[emphasis added] Perhaps the women weren't also on a low fat, low cholesterol diet? Or maybe they were on such a diet and that doesn't reliably reduce cholesterol or tryglycerides either?

They did find, however, that there was a greater production of breast fluid in premenopausal women during the months of soy consumption, and "plasma estradiol [estrogen] concentrations were elevated erratically throughout a 'composite' menstrual cycle during the months of soy consumption." Further, they reported "Of potential concern was the cytological detection of epithelial hyperplasia in 7 of 24 women (29.2%) during the months they were consuming soy protein isolate" and they concluded "this pilot study indicates that prolonged consumption of soy protein isolate has a stimulatory effect on the premenopausal female breast, characterized by increased secretion of breastfluid, the appearance of hyperplastic [abnormal] epithelial cells, and elevated levels of plasma estradiol." [Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 1996 Oct 5: 10, 785-94]

In 1997, another group of researchers studied the effect of soy isoflavone genistein on breast cancer cells and reported that "dietary estrogens at low concentrations do not act as antiestrogens but act like DDT and estradiol to stimulate human breast cancer cells to enter the cell cycle" [Environ Health Perspect 1997 Apr 105 Suppl 3, 633-6].

In the September 1998 issue of Cancer Research, William G Helferich, Ph.D., from the University of Illinois, reported that human estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells injected into mice multiplied if the mice were fed genistein. Helferich says "We've seen a lot of good research that genistein is a cancer preventer, but it is dangerous to people who already have cancer....Caution is warranted."2

An epidemiological study done in China found that high soy intake did not provide protection from breast cancer ["Diet and breast cancer in Shanghai and Yianjin, China," Br J Cancer 1995 71: 1353-8]. At a recent conference on soy foods and health, soy advocate and author of The Simple Soybean and Your Health Mike Messina Ph.D. stated, "It's simply not possible as yet to draw any conclusions about soy consumption and cancer prevention, but further research is certainly warranted" [Honolulu Star Bulletin 11/19/99, http://starbulletin.com/1999/11/19/news/story4.html]. This is completely contrary, of course, to the image of soy presented by advertisers who would like women to believe that ingesting soy will prevent breast cancer.

Other research has shown that some premenopausal women ingesting 60 grams of soy protein daily (45 mg isoflavones) have leutenizing hormone levels 33% of normal and follicle stimulating hormone levels only 53% of normal levels [Am J Clin Nutr 1994 Sep 60:3, 333-40]. These levels are low enough to inhibit ovulation in some individuals. In 1994 a team of researchers reported that in vitro "Genistein, and inhibitor of tyrosine kinases, including c-kit, blocked oocyte growth and disrupted follicle morphology." In translation, genistein blocked egg growth and caused abnormal changes in the shape of the follicle [Dev Biol 1994 Jan 161:1, 194-205].

There is good reason to suspect soy estrogens as a cause for male infertility. Over the past 30 to 50 years, as human exposure to xenoestrogens (including soy isoflavones, in so many processed foods containing soy protein) has increased, there has also been an increase in incidence of developmental disorders of male reproductive organs and a decrease in sperm counts. Researchers have found that soy isoflavones genistein and daidzein inhibit the activity of an enzyme required for proper metabolism of steroids critical to hormonal functions-in particular, this enzyme is required for the production of testosterone. [Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1995 Oct 24 215:3, 1137-44.]

Soy isoflavones have been shown to interfere with normal reproductive functions on the cellular level. In 1996, researchers showed that genistein is a strong inducer of DNA strand breaks, thus clastogenic and mutagenic. [Food Chem Toxicol 1996, 35: 605-13] In 1998, researchers reported that "coumestrol and genistein are clastogenic in cultured mammalian cells and lead to gene mutations."[Z Lebensm Unters Forsch A 1998, 206: 367-73] Below we will report how this may affect the immune and nervous systems.

Soy and Thyroid Function
A significant body of research has suggested that the estrogen-like soy isoflavones in 25 grams of soy protein can seriously disrupt other endocrine functions. In the late 1950s and early 1960s there were reports that infants fed soy formula developed goiter (enlarged thyroid). A study done in Japan in 1991 found that diffuse goiter and hypothyroidism appeared in half of the subjects after consuming 30 gm per day of pickled roasted soybeans for three months [Ishisuki Y et Al., "The effects on the thyroid gland of soybeans administered experimentally in healthy subjects," Nippon Nibunpi Gawk Zasshi (1991) 67:622-629].
In 1997 it was shown that the supposedly healthful soy estrogens/isoflavones suppress thyroid activity.3 As thyroid inhibitors, soy isoflavones are considered to be somewhat more potent than common anti-thyroid drugs, working to inhibit action of an enzyme that converts the amino acid tyrosine to thyroid hormone. Daniel R. Doerge, Ph.D., one of the researchers from the FDA National Center for Toxicological Research involved in the study that isolated and studied the anti-thyroid mechanism of the soy isoflavones, says: "I don't think you can get into trouble if you eat a few soyfoods within the bounds of a balanced diet...But I see substantial risks from taking soy supplements or eating huge amounts of soy foods for their putative disease-preventive value. There is definitely potential for interaction with the thyroid."4

Soy and Immune Function
Several studies have shown that soy isoflavones suppress the immune system. In fact, genistein has been studied as a potential drug to give to transplant recipients, who are always given immune suppressant drugs to prevent their bodies from rejecting the foreign transplant tissues. One team of researchers studied the immunosuppressive potential of genistein and reported, "Our data suggest that genistein is a powerful immunosuppressive agent, with no toxic effects on T cells, and has the potential for use in the prophylaxis and treatment of allograft rejection" [Transplantation 1991 Feb 51:2, 448-50]. In other words, genistein has a immune suppressant effect comparable to that of immune suppressant drugs given to transplant patients.

Other researchers have found that genistein works as an immune suppressant by causing chromatin fragmentation [Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1993 Jul 30 194:2, 944-50]. In 1998 researchers reported that "Exposure of mammalian cells to genistein results in DNA damage that is similar to that induced by the topo-II inhibitor and chromosomal mutagen, m-amsa." These researchers found that "genistein is a chromosomal mutagen" that causes mutations and cell death of human lymph cells [Mutat Res 1998 Aug 31 405:1, 41-56].

Soy and Brain Function
According to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (11/9/99) newspaper, ingestion of soy products has recently been strongly linked to development of dementia. The National Institute of Aging sponsored a study of 3, 634 Japanese-American men in Hawaii, which found that those who ate the most tofu had the most advanced dementia and on autopsy the brains of men who ate more than two servings per week of tofu weighed less than the brains of men who consumed fewer than two servings of tofu per week. The rate of impairment was also found correlated with soy intake. Those who ate no tofu showed mental abilities of men five years younger, while those who ate the most tofu tested as if they were five years older. Of 27 dietary items checked, including meat, only soy was found consistently correlated with increased incidence and severity of dementia [http://starbulletin.com/1999/11/19/news/story4.html].

This finding is supported by experimental evidence which has shown that soy isoflavones decrease DNA repair and synthesis in the brains of rats and mice [Yakisich JS, et Al, "Early effects of protein kinase modulator on DNA synthesis in rat cerebral cortex," Exp Neurol 1999 Sep; 159 (1): 164-76; Schmitz C, Axmacher B, Sunker U, Korr H, "Age-related changes of DNA repair and mitochondrial DNA synthesis in the mouse brain," Acta Neuropathol (Berl) 1999; 97(1): 71-81] .

According to the Star-Bulletin, this study linking tofu to dementia was presented at a conference on soy and health sponsored by soy foods producers such as DuPont and Archer Daniel Midlands. Commenting on the conference, the lead investigator in the Hawaii study, Dr. Lon White, stated "The majority of scientists said the data they were talking about for beneficial effects [of soy foods] on health is very weak" and doesn't really support health claims for soy foods.
The Money Game

Thus, right now it appears that there is sufficient contradictory evidence to conclude that we don't really know yet whether ingesting soy in large amounts as food or as isoflavone supplements will be beneficial or harmful. Obviously it is best not to consume soy or its isoflavones in the large amounts recommended by soy product manufacturers and "approved" by the FDA. Until more is known, it would be best not to exceed the levels of soy food consumption found in the typical Asian diet, about 8 to 10 grams (one-third ounce) daily-and certainly one should avoid using isolated soy protein or high dose soy isoflavone supplements.
So why are soybeans so highly touted in the popular media? Here is my hypothesis: Up until about 10 years ago, most of the soy grown in the U.S. was fed to cattle or used for industrial purposes, such as making margarine, paints, plastics, drugs, cleaners, emulsifiers, and so on. However, there is a limit to the profit to be made in this use of soy. You can make much more money if you can get people to eat the soy-and especially if you can get people to believe that it is the panacea for many ills, since people willingly pay dearly for panaceas.

The soy pushers are some of the largest, wealthiest corporations in the U.S. For example, Monsanto (the same corporation behind rBGH mentioned above) markets its "Round Up Ready" genetically engineered soybean along with its Round Up pesticide-the soybean is engineered, not to be more nutritious or delicious, but to be capable of withstanding larger doses of Round Up! Another example is Archer Daniels Midland (a.k.a. ADM), which advertises itself as "supermarket for the world," and is heavily invested in producing soy products. DuPont Chemical is also involved in the soy market, through its subsidiary Protein Technologies International, a soy protein powder maker. Green Giant is selling soybean mock meats.

All of these big boys are interested in getting you to eat soy, drink soy, and take soy pills. They don't really care about your health, only about their profits. So you should take all soy advertisements and popular articles and books with a big grain of salt.

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Don Matesz, M.A., C.N., C.R.T. is an associate member of the International Association of Resistance Trainers and graduate of the American Academy of Nutrition. Don resides in Toledo, Ohio
1 Fitzpatrick M, "Soy Isoflavones: Panacea or Poison?", submitted to the FDA in an effort to block GRAS status for soy isoflavones, published in Health and Healing Wisdom, Volume 22, No 3, p. 3. Also available at www.soyonline.com.
2 Osborne SE, "Does Soy Have a Dark Side?", Natural Health, March 1999, p. 158.
3 Divi RL et al., "Anti-thyroid isoflavones from the soybean," Biochem Pharmacol (1997)54:1087-1096.
4 Osborne SE, op cit, p. 113.

Posted by: MeanCuts

Quote:

Originally posted by Twin Peak
Answer: human consumption.

Human consumption of soy sucks?I simply disagree with that

Posted by: DaMayor

What is this? 'My article is bigger than your article'?

....Okay, Everybody whip out your research papers and lay them out on the bar. We're gonna find out who knows their Soy, by God!

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Pain
But it is a stretch of imagination to call the Asian diet "soy-based". According to the non-profit Soy On Line Service (www.soyonlineservice.co.nz), the typical Japanese diet contains only 0.08 to 0.13 mg isoflavones per kg of body weight per day. That means only 5.6 to 9.1 mg of isoflavones per day for a 70 kg/154 lb. person. This amount is found in about 8 grams-less than one third of an ounce-of whole soybeans! Compare this to the average 3 to 4 pounds of food eaten daily by the typical individual. One-third of an ounce represents only 0.5 percent of the Japanese diet; one ounce is 1.5 percent of the diet.

I can tell you for a fact, that in Japans case ( one of the higher soy consuming contries ) that this is simply incorrect. Any casual glance at their diet would show they are taking in way more that 1.5% of their diet.

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Pain
"It's simply not possible as yet to draw any conclusions about soy consumption and cancer prevention, but further research is certainly warranted"

This has been my contention all along, as I`m sure it is re thyroid function and the other areas in this article. The "final word on soy" is a long way off IMHO.

Posted by: Twin Peak

Amended Answer: As a bodybuilding supplement, it sucks. (not talking about nuts here).

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Twin Peak
Amended Answer: As a bodybuilding supplement, it sucks. (not talking about nuts here).

I agreed with that on the previous page.

Posted by: Twin Peak

Just restating, and clarifying.

Health, bah!

Posted by: TrustNoOne

Ok, I have been using silk [name brand] soy chaocolate milk as a mix for my optimum whey shake. It has lots of isoflavins and 5 grams of protein per 8 ounces. I used to use water [bleh] then fat free milk, but the soy protein chocolate milk makes it taste awsome. I use appx. 20 oz. with 2 scoops optimum post workout. So DP, do you think that is ok? I am not nor will I be a competitive bodybuilder. Ya'all seem to think soy sucks, but for me I use it so it slows the absorption rate of post workout shake, since that is what I was told by some of the other guys at the gym when we were talking about post shakes. They said slow absorption, nit saying soy, but they use lettuce to slow post absortion. Well I got off track abit, but soy/whey shake ok?

Posted by: Prince

Quote:

Originally posted by TrustNoOne
I used to use water [bleh] then fat free milk, but the soy protein chocolate milk makes it taste awsome

You're better off using regular/dairy milk, I use 2%.

Quote:

Ya'all seem to think soy sucks

Yup.

Quote:

but for me I use it so it slows the absorption rate of post workout shake since that is what I was told by some of the other guys at the gym when we were talking about post shakes.

Why would you want to slow down absorption post-work-out? You should stop listening to the guys at the gym that told you this.

Quote:

Well I got off track abit, but soy/whey shake ok?

No, Soy still sucks...read the articles DP posted.

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by TrustNoOne
Ya'all seem to think soy sucks,

NO...did you read all this thread or just skim? The context is very important here.

Posted by: Dr. Pain

Quote:

Originally posted by TrustNoOne
Ok, I have been using silk [name brand] soy chaocolate milk as a mix for my optimum whey shake. It has lots of isoflavins and 5 grams of protein per 8 ounces. I used to use water [bleh] then fat free milk, but the soy protein chocolate milk makes it taste awsome. I use appx. 20 oz. with 2 scoops optimum post workout. So DP, do you think that is ok? I am not nor will I be a competitive bodybuilder. Ya'all seem to think soy sucks, but for me I use it so it slows the absorption rate of post workout shake, since that is what I was told by some of the other guys at the gym when we were talking about post shakes. They said slow absorption, nit saying soy, but they use lettuce to slow post absortion. Well I got off track abit, but soy/whey shake ok?

We used to use soy just that way...w/whey...untill about 3-4 years ago when the lastest info came to light, we then switch to whey and egg, also know as whegg..or whey and casein.......

I think each person has to do what is right for them....I look at it this way...soy powders are supps...

If someone tells me, here take this supp, there are some good benefits...but there is a 40%...or even a 10-20% chance it will compromise thyroid function...the decision to limit soy is an easy one for me

(and I will look for those benefits elsewhere)

IMHO

DP

Posted by: Dr. Pain

That was at bedtime mostly BTW..

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Pain

If someone tells me, here take this supp, there are some good benefits...but there is a 40%...or even a 10-20% chance it will compromise thyroid function...the dicision to limit soy is an easy one for me

(and I will look for those benefits eslewhere)

Well now, I find that very interesting. I see you are one that regularly pushes lots of vegetables when those such as cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli and others of the brassica family have been proven to be goiterogenic, and most of them are on YOUR shopping list.

With soy they still don`t know if it is due to the soy itself, or with those that consume it without realising they have a low grade allergy to it, yet you refuse to use this.

makes little sense to me......

Posted by: Dr. Pain

Like Showdown says, water and air are fucked too...Xenoestrogens everywhere.

I don't refuse to use soy...btw...I limit it...I have said it is an individual's discision

I choose to limit it. I can make an argument against almost everything from alfalfa sprouts to toothpaste, almost any personal care product, and plastics......I find soy more significant a risk than cruciferous vegetables and tupperware...JMHO

DP

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Pain
Like Showdown says, water and air are fucked too...Xenoestrogens everywhere.

I don't refuse to use soy...btw...I limit it...I have said it is an individual's discision

This thread is not concerning any of those though. The tone of this and all your other threads on soy has been not to touch it.

You do consume soy do you? In what form? Personally I take tofu, and miso now and again. It is also impossible in Japan to totally avoid soy sauce. I was surprised to find out a couple of years back, that after several years of eating soy products, I DO have a low grade allergy to it though.

What do you base the fact that you find soy more of a risk than the other mentioned vegetables on? I`m quite interested.

Posted by: Dero

I hate TOFFU!!!
Why would you want to substitute meat with toffu???
If you ask me soy sucks!!!
My personal opinion!!!

aka,my 2 cents!
Yuck,pooey,

Where's da beef?????

Posted by: Dr. Pain

I consume, only rarely however, shoyu, miso, tempeh, tofu, and derrivative products imatating non-soy foods. Historically I have used soy milk, okara, soy cheese, etc. I consume no concentrates, isolates, hydrosylates of soy.

I do see many soy, wheat, gluten and other allergies in the course of my business, I would rank soy allergies as common.

I am not thoroughly researched in those particular vegetables other then their anti-carcengenic properties and DIM (diindolylmathanes) content, a phytonutrient helping to up-regulate 2-hydroxyestrogens and dispose of 16-hydroxyestrogens. So I can not comment on whether soy or cruciferious vegatables have the greater goitertopic/genic possibilites.....(thank you for calling that to my attention, I intend to research it)

But if we were to draw other nutrients into the fray, we could talk about, amongst other things, flax oil's estrogenic properties and arachadonic acid tendencies....clearly not our purpose here....

Kuso....I present infomation, definitely with a bias, but information none the less, and you presented counterpoint, also biased....up until that point I considered this a good and valuable thread...allowing people to learn and make there own choices.

I have provided the information I thought was important....

Please continue with the pros and cons of soy, thank you!

Posted by: Dero

Posted by: kuso

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Pain
DP

DP..................

I feel rather like Dero I see.

I didn`t reply immediately because I was rather surprised at your pre edit remarks. I think of all people you know what I`m like when I`m being argumentative and I have gone out of my way in this thread not to be in the hopes of learning something.

Questioning a post does nothing but provide further information ( in the form of subsequent replies ) and another train of thought on a particular subject. If you think something is important enough to post, I don`t think its being rude to want to know why you feel this way, and what you think of the other side of the coin, particularly on a subject that has as large a variation as soy.

Anyway, if you do research on whether soy or cruciferious vegatables have the greater goitertopic/genic possibilites, I`d be very interested to see what you find.

Posted by: DaMayor

May I make a suggestion here? No? Well tough tofu, because I intend to.
In the future, when the great dietetic/nutritionalist minds gather for an intellectual sparring match, in an effort to include all who frequent this site, could we possibly 'laymanize' the vocabulary a bit? I request this not for personal reasons (Hey, I be done took Latin) but for the poor, unsuspecting newbie who might open one of these discussions, and then, after attempting to comprehend one of DP's thirty-syllable terms, run for their lives.
You gentlemen do an excellent job, and every iota of information is valuable. However, "......ticular vegetables other then their anti-carcengenic properties and DIM (diindolylmathanes) content, a phytonutrient helping to up-regulate 2-hydroxyestrogens and dispose of 16-hydroxyestrogens." can't be good for business.

Posted by: Twin Peak

Quote:

Originally posted by kuso
Questioning a post does nothing but provide further information ( in the form of subsequent replies ) and another train of thought on a particular subject. If you think something is important enough to post, I don`t think its being rude to want to know why you feel this way, and what you think of the other side of the coin,

Kuso, you know this isn't allowed here!

(Not a crack at DP, BTW, at least he didn't post, call you names, and close the thread.)

Posted by: DaMayor

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