The science of soy: health, harms and hyperbole
Soy. It’s one of the most polarising of foods. A casual search of the Internet will uncover first one article lauding it for its health benefits, while the next article will class it as food of the devil with eaters of it condemned to a hell of hormone-related disease. To help you make sense of the conflicting messages about soy, I’ll dig deeper into some of the key health areas linked to eating soy foods. And then I’ll clarify just how much credence you should give to both the health claims and the health alarms about it.
Links referred to in the podcast
- Umbrella review of soy and isoflavones consumption and health https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mnfr.201900751
- Meta-analysis of soy and cardiovascular disease https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28067550
- Effect of soy on reproductive hormones in men https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19524224
- Effect of soy on thyroid function https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16571087
- Soy-based infant formula https://web.archive.org/web/20221108173936/https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/sya-soy-formula/index.cfm
- Diet and cancer risk https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31360907
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