{"id":2360,"date":"2015-12-09T19:41:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2016-10-18T17:37:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T17:37:55","slug":"soy-protein-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/supplements\/protein\/soy-protein-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"Soy Protein – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SoyWe all strive on a daily basis to further improve our nutritional regime and as such our eyes are\u00a0constantly on the look out for more efficient, more beneficial items available to us. Like any new\u00a0kid on the block the first step is to impress and then prove yourself to the crowd- Soy is no\u00a0different. Imagine a quiet suburb with the local gang of kids cruising around on skateboards- at the\u00a0front is their trusted leader Whey. Whey is cool, he has been around since the beginning and\u00a0everyone trusts Whey.<\/p>\n

Soy is the new kid stepping out of the car to meet his peers- although Soy looks just as cool there is\u00a0some convincing to do. And with most underdog stories there is often a surprising twist at the end.<\/p>\n

Although Soy has held its own in many recent studies a presiding argument of it being ‘feminizing’\u00a0to testosterone<\/a> levels keeps cropping up.<\/p>\n

Could this just be a case of being the new kid on the\u00a0block? Is Soy something we are really only just discovering?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Soy has been an integral part of the food chain for over 5000 years and is a plant based protein\u00a0containing all of the essential amino acids crucial to your physical development. Whey has been on\u00a0the block for around the same time but was discovered by accident and then heavily endorsed.<\/p>\n

Hippocrates\u00a0even used it as a serum for his patients and this was further developed into a tonic over\u00a0the next thousand years.<\/p>\n

Considering Whey must derive from dairy, a topic of contention, perhaps Soy with its all balanced\u00a0composition and plant based nature simply hasn’t been given the time, or the right crowd of support,\u00a0to show us its tricks.<\/p>\n

In fact the main arguments against Soy could become obsolete as more and more studies are\u00a0conducted and the concerns of it lowering testosterone levels are being explored more thoroughly\u00a0by research groups. The results are all pointing in the direction that Soy initially received a lot of\u00a0bad press by them latching onto the word ‘feminizing’ and the consequences this could cause- but\u00a0studies do show when used either alone or in conjunction with other proteins<\/a> it can be as effective,\u00a0if not more so, than using Whey alone.<\/p>\n

More and more scientists and nutritionists are endorsing Soy despite the ‘myth’ of it lowering\u00a0testosterone levels, thus reducing mass gain potential. The facts show that its complete amino acid\u00a0profile boosts the nutritional value of all other foods consumed and that Soy also receives the\u00a0highest protein grade rating possible of 1.0.<\/p>\n

Soy arrived in a new neighbourhood with a bad reputation already following- faced with the long\u00a0standing, presently accepted reputation of Whey. But maybe if more people knew about how Whey\u00a0came to be and how Soy hasn’t been given a real chance as a usable protein they would find the\u00a0time and confidence to watch its tricks.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the misinterpretation of Soy being ‘feminizing’, or that ‘feminizing’ could represent\u00a0weakness has left a sour taste in the mouth of possible consumers. This is also maybe reinforced by\u00a0rumours that any arguments defending Soy are being trampled by the existing and dominating\u00a0Whey market. Well, as with any controversy, we are left to weigh up the facts for ourselves.<\/p>\n

But as new facts are being presented it does seem more and more likely we will see a change in the\u00a0attitude towards Soy- hopefully allowing more people to start utilizing its benefits to further help\u00a0their own development program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all strive on a daily basis to further improve our nutritional regime and as such our eyes are\u00a0constantly on the look out for more efficient, more beneficial items available to us. Like any new\u00a0kid on the block the first step is to impress and then prove yourself to the crowd- Soy is no\u00a0different. Imagine …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[5,120,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutritionly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}