No, vegan soy boys don’t have lower testosterone than meat eaters

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A plant-based diet was associated with normal testosterone levels - the same as occur in men who eat meat.

between the testosterone levels of vegans and meat-eaters. The data was divided into three sets, according to the reported diets of the participants: omnivorous, plant-based, and healthy plant-based.

‘We found a plant-based diet was associated with normal testosterone levels, levels that are the same as occur in men who eat a traditional diet that includes more meat,’ explained co-author of the study and Director of Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at the University of Miami, Dr Ranjith Ramasamy.‘Whether a man ate a traditional diet with lots of animal foods, a healthy plant-based diet or a less healthy plant-based diet, simply did not matter,’ remarked co-author Manish Kuchakulla.

When Impossible Burgers launched their Whopper, a cattle vet called James Stangle published a takedown based on the fact that the main ingredient was soy protein.that ‘an Impossible Whopper has 18 million times as much oestrogen as a regular whopper’, and that eating four Impossible Burgers per day ‘has enough oestrogen to grow boobs on a male’.

The scientists at fact-checking site Health Feedback issued this rebuttal: ‘Inaccurate: Soy does not contain oestrogen, which is a mammalian hormone’.

 

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