What Everyone Should Know About Soy

There’s an enzyme in your body called 5-alpha-reductase (what the hair loss drugs finasteride and dutasteride block)

It helps turn testosterone into DHT, a hormone that:

• Supports libido

• Helps maintain energy and mood

• Keeps brain chemistry stable

Interestingly, soy actually has a compound that acts as a 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor...

This is rarely talked about as most people focus on the phytoestrogens found in soy, which can be problematic too, but I'd argue this 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor effect is more important as lower DHT results in:

• Less energy

• Weaker libido

• Poorer stress tolerance

• Brain fog or emotional flatness

• In men, a risk of feminizing hormone shifts

• In women, more estrogen dominance

Even relatively small amounts of soy can lower your DHT levels, interfere with iodine uptake by the thyroid, and slow your metabolic rate.

On top of this, the phytoestrogens can also slow thyroid function, raise endogenous and unbound estrogen, which can also slow the metabolic rate, and worsen PMS.

Wholistically, when looking at soy, it is an anti-thyroid, anti-metabolizing food, and should truly be avoided.