BLA 049: Does eating soy ruin your testosterone levels?

Building Lifelong Athletes · Oct 31, 2023 · 19m

If you follow nutrition influencers on social media then you may have heard someone say that eating soy products can tank you testosterone levels. But is that actually true? in this episode we are going to dive into where this idea came from and if soy actually is bad for your testosterone levels.

Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction

00:27 - The Origins of the “soy tanks testosterone” idea

02:27 - Soy Overview 05:47 - Mechanism for soy decreasing testosterone

06:30 - Gynecomastia

07:24 - Erectile Dysfunction

08:29 - How quick can hormone levels change with soy?

09:09 - Does soy raise estrogen?…