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> negative reputation of soy and masculinity

That's a ruse/tactic of the meat industry, nothing more. Meat/dairy is full of estrogens, phytoestrogens are in fact protective against real estrogens.

Btw, I don't think that masculinity depends on eating corpses / animal secretions.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-minds/202005/...



And forget phytoestrogens, commercial milk has plain ol estrogen: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19496976/

“Soy boy” never made much sense to me. Most people who fling that epithet could probably improve their health outcomes with some edamame.


Among the phytoestrogens, it seems like hops are exceptionally potent and disruptive to human hormones as well. This is a bit ironic because it’s a common ingredient in beer, another thing sometimes associated with masculinity.




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