Soya makes it hard to get pregnant

Hmm... so couples trying to get pregnant shouldn't drink tau huey zhui and other such soy products? Ah. Suddenly there's a whole new way of looking at the birth rates in Singapore...

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tscd said…
This is true! One of my lectures at med school was on phytoestrogens like those found in soya, and the effect on fertility/sexual vigor in animals (rats and fish, mostly).

There haven't been any studies conducted on humans, as far as I can tell. The only way is to study vegan or vegetarian populations who depend on soya as a protein source - Hindus or Japanese vegetarians, for example? They seem pretty fertile to me, though.
26 June 2005 at 14:58
Heavenly Sword said…
Huh? Cannot be lah...... :)
27 June 2005 at 22:25
tscd said…
Check out http://www.ifst.org/hottop34.htm.

Doctors are very interested in the properties of phytoestrogens for the treatment of menopause and hormone-linked cancers like prostate cancer.
28 June 2005 at 04:08
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