Just thought I'd start sharing some stuff about soy, estrogen, and testosterone. Maybe I'll start a miniseries of short info for quick and easy uptakes.
Did you know? Most fast food and sit down restaurants use soybean oil.
This is purely anecdotal and sample size withstanding, but I know couple people that work in the food distribution business that deliver, handle invoices, and sales concerning restaurants as a whole. Soybean, or rather vegetable oil (supposed mix of soybean/corn/canola) mix, is the predominant cooking oil used by restaurants. Some restaurants like Five Guys openly advertise they use peanut oil.
Did you know? Soybean, vegetable oil, is on par on pricing as canola oil.
If soy has estrogen derivatives in their isoflavones and therefore phytoestrogens, why would you want to even use soybean oil versus canola oil? Canola oil comes from rapeseed which is known for not having estrogenic profiles like soybean. If these two cooking oils are on par the same pricing, why would they choose soybean?
Did you know? Too much of any one hormone can lead to an serious imbalances.
Too much estrogen can lead to mood swings, anxiety/panic attacks, gynecomastia, irritability, achy bones/muscles.
Too much testosterone can lead to aggression, high blood pressure/libido, and increased risk-taking behaviors.
You can make a case to understand the hormonal imbalance with an easy stereotype we've all heard before: the crazy old cat lady versus the meat heat bodybuilder. However, the crazy old cat lady trope is a bit more involved other than estrogen, has to do with toxoplasmosis, cat poop, and immune systems. But for simplicity, you get the picture.
Did you know? Cholesterol is primarily the building block of testosterone. Cholesterol is predominantly found in animal meats/fats and dairy, pretty much a byproduct of an animal.
Let's take a look at vegans and vegetarians. I'll let you make your own guess if they are hormonally imbalanced or not based upon your own interactions and the interactions from what you see on the web.
That's it for now. Remember ladies and fellas, everything in moderation! Take advantage of the hormone system that you were given with and treat it right. Alot of it also effects mental health. Maybe that'll be the topic for the next couple topics.
One implication of this information is that adding hormones to an otherwise functional human body is a chancy business that can have ugly side effects even if the hormones supposedly match the person's sex.
I learned this when I stopped using an IUD, and got The Pill. I knew I did not want to stay on The Pill, so a few months later, I got a new IUD, and .... stopped having emotional symptoms. The Pill had been driving me crazy, and I blamed it on everything but the medication, until my mood leveled and sweetened when I got off it.
If the "right" sex hormones can throw your system off, what can the mismatched set do to you?
Well, the information is not about adding or subtracting hormones to a person's "inherited sex hormone", more or less it's about keeping things balanced.The imbalance is what causes a bunch of issues whether if we are aware of it or not. For instance, I wasn't aware why i was so moody/stressed out as a teenager then until I was an adult I realized I was growing into my male body while at the same time eating awful fast foods, chips, didn't exercise, and not sleeping enough.
That's an interesting question you bring up.
For the the males that truly have excessive estrogen. What I'm going to say is not politically correct, but it definitely needs to be said. There needs to be an active meta conversation even if incorrect choice of words are used for lack of better ways to say things.
The "soy boys." The one characteristic of testosterone i see from them that is missing the most is "risk taking." I see it all the time in social justice movements. When there's a social justice movement, and then there's a message, they seem to just openly follow the message without taking the risk to maybe see if the message has flaws. I think it follows the idea that it's safe to follow a message if alot of people are following it too. Then that leads into the modern trope of safe spaces.
Maybe it's the idea that it's safer in numbers than it is to be comfortable taking the risk of doing something alone. It's sure as hell tough to take the risk to challenge an idea that you may be against and rationalize the pros and cons of that idea. Not everyone is comfortable challenging an idea that can show wrinkles in the other ideas they believe. So are they just going to keep following an idea even when there are legitimate talking points that may have significance? --- but orange man bad!
Then you have the reverse. The males that truly have excessive testosterone and less estrogen. Concerning risk taking, they've challenged an idea and are dead set on the side of the idea they've taken. They become one man armies so to say. They think they can do everything in the world and are invincible with no consequences. This ends up being bad because not any one person can do everything in the world. It takes a team of other collaborative thoughts , a kind of safe space as to say, to truly succeed. Consequences are also necessary to keep things in check to protect realities when failures to happen. So what happens when inevitably fail because they showed too much risk taking? -- but my stalin, marxist beliefs!