mike91sr
Well-Known Member
I didn't say the estrogen part wasn't true. You said it's quite bad for you, when in reality it isn't. Yes, it comes with good and bad things. From a clinical perspective, that means very little. Everything has pros and cons. Slightly increased estrogen levels, when very mild, cause little/no problems. Low estrogen levels can cause just as, if not more severe problems than high estrogen levels. Besides, high estrogen levels are pretty easily counteracted; raise your testosterone levels(drink whole milk and eat red meat). Animal fat has one of the largest known effects on free t levels.
Side note, but another similar situation to alcohol/caffeine/red meat: egg yolks have choline in them, enough to actually offset the amount of cholesterol in the yolks that people are afraid of which causes them to eat the less nutritious whites. Yet all of these things will cause serious health problems without moderation. The fact that somebody eats multiple edibles a day means the rules of moderation are no longer going to apply. I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just saying don't be surprised by side effects if you choose to use in excess. Yes, using marijuana all day every day is in excess (guilty as charged).
What ever happened to the food pyramid anyway? Moderation, moderation, moderation. I've been a cpt for a few years now, and I can tell you that about 50% of clients I've had will say 'carbs are bad, I went on a high carb diet and got fat' or 'you need to eat all the carbs you can, when I went on a low-carb diet, I had no energy and got sick all the time' or 'red meat is bad, I started eating it 3x a day and got fat'. See what I'm saying? People go from one extreme to the other, then say that it's horrible because of their single, uneducated, radical attempt at something. The food pyramid has withstood the test of time(for the most part), as opposed to all the ridiculous trendy diets out there. I actually hate the term diet, because it implies that its temporary. I tell people to develop good eating habits in order to gain/lose weight and be healthy, not go on varying diets. /rant lol
I agree GMO shouldnt be used in food production, but neither should carcinogenic pesticides. But without those things, we'd be having a hell of a time getting cheap food. And besides, we're JUST learning about a lot of these things and their side effects (as in recent years, not weeks). It's going to take a good while before we understand long-term effects, and even longer before a solution is found. And like you said, ALMOST all soy is GMO. So get soy that isn't.
