The Potential Effects of Soy, and How it Might Decimate the Health of Your Unborn Baby and the Fertility of Future Generations
by Dr. Mercola
If you're pregnant or thinking of having a baby, you might want to take a look at some new research on the effects of plant estrogens, such as that found in soy, on a developing fetus.
According to Medical News Today, a paper published in Biology of Reproduction suggests that exposure to estrogenic chemicals in the womb or during childhood has the potential to negatively affect a woman's fertility as an adult.
This coincides with earlier research on neonatal effects of exposure to plant or environmental estrogens. In studies with mice, researchers found that causes of infertility included:
•Failure to ovulate
•Reduced ability of the oviduct to support embryo development before ovulation, and
•Failure of the uterus to support effective implantation of blastocyst-stage embryos
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I don't think that oncologists are nearly as likely to warn about soy as there are to warn about alternatives to their cut, poison and burn treatments.
I am not sure how linking to studies about breast cancer survival rates relates to the original "worthless" post which warned about possible dangers to infants, including a risk of lower fertility. But hey, I guess someone has to carry the banner for mostly GM and herbicide laced soy these days now that soy's number one proponent has left the building.
There has been a dearth of studies thus far on soy and fertility, though many researchers have cited the need for more studies on the subject. Also, it is a bit difficult to compare Asian diets with American diets because they vary in many areas. For example, the soy in the US is 85% GMO but not nearly that high in Asia.
In much of Asia, fermented soy makes up a considerable amount of the soy intake. Asians also consume a huge amount of white rice - but you don't see any natural health experts recommending that as a healthy food. Maybe that is because we don't have the huge agribusiness firms dominating the market with GMO rice. Yet.
According to William Wong ND, PhD, Member World Sports Medicine Hall of Fame:
*Overall soy consumption in Japan is much higher than in China. While China has imposed strict laws to control population growth, Japanese fertility has dropped so precipitously that the number of in vitro fertilizations has skyrocketed.
*It is widely known throughout Asia that when a woman does not want to have sexua| relations with her husband any more, she feeds him more and more tofu.
*Monks in monasteries needing to be celibate are urged to eat more tofu and soy products.
*In Asia, it is common knowledge that soy reduces sexua| urge and ability.
As Dr Wong puts it: "The propaganda and contrived studies showing that soy is such a fantastic food arises from the huge agribusiness firms that grow most of the world’s soybeans, Monsanto and Archer Daniel Midland."
Source: http://www.totalityofbeing.com/FramelessPages/Articles/ZardozEffect.htm
The human species is not threatened by a shrinking population the last time I checked.
Get enough of them on the Western SADS diet and keep dumping toxins into the environment and that will likely change. In 1960 a good sperm count was considered to be 120 million sperm per milliliter of seminal fluid. Anything lower than that and a man was considered to be only marginally fertile. These days, things have become so bad that a man is considered fertile if he has only 20 million sperm per milliliter of ejaculate!
Life is all about balance and ginseng and v!agra trumps tofu.
Try some DHEA in place of the v!agra. You might be pleasantly surprised. Interestingly, one of several positive side effects (depending on whether you are the male or the female partner, perhaps) reported for supplemental oleander extract is increased male libido.
I hear ya on the tofu! Ugghhh!
...the soy in the US is 85% GMO but not nearly that high in Asia.
Comment: Plant derived xenoestrogens have long been known to be in soy even before GMO.
That comment was aimed at GMO dangers, not xenoestrogen content.
*It is widely known throughout Asia that when a woman does not want to have sexua| relations with her husband any more, she feeds him more and more tofu.
*In Asia, it is common knowledge that soy reduces sexua| urge and ability.
Comment: "widely known" and "common knowledge" is the language of urban legends
True. They are also the language of those reporting on observed and historical use - not to mention the language of mainstream denialists who support things like mainstream drugs and GMO soy products.
A little less fertility in this world might not be a bad thing. I've traveled to India.
No doubt, but not if less fertility came at the expense of less overall health.
I don't think you can automatically label every single GMO item as bad, but it is easy to label the concept of GMO as bad. We have quite the track record of creating items which are not normally found in nature and the record is not a good one. The most logical reason is that mankind has developed over all the many millenia to utilize and be compatible with nature - and items not found in nature are recognized by the body as toxins.
That is why we see over 95% of all prescribed and over the counter medications have side effects (and why drugs are 62,000 times more likely to kill you than supplements). That is why we have so many problems due to the chemical toxins and industrial compounds we have spewed into the air we breathe, our soil, the food we eat and the water we drink. And that is why we are seeing study after study reveal the harm in many GMO created items - such as the ones which create their own pesticides and the ones that withstand being laced with dangerous herbicides.
Plus there is this to consider: we really don't know what the consequences could be from GMO foods. All it takes is just one GMO item to have unforeseen catastrophic consequences for the lives of millions, or even billions, to be at risk - and once you let the GMO genie out of the bottle it is next to impossible to put it back in.