Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed

science-based decisions about nutrition and your help.

How's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez.

And in this episode, we are going to be discussing a highly controversial topic

in the space of nutrition, and it really shouldn't be, and that is the topic of soy.

So what we're going to talk about today is the nutritional value of soy and soy products,

what the science shows for consuming more soy and health outcomes like cardiovascular disease,

cancer, Alzheimer's, bone health, hormone health, etc.

So I'm going to review that research, talk about what happens when people eat more soy.

Does it results in better health outcomes, worse health outcomes? What are the

potential benefits of including soy into your diet? And also we'll talk about some of the potential

risks as well. I think this is going to be a highly informative episode for a lot of you.

I know most people that I speak to don't include this food into their diet on a regular basis.

And after you listen to this episode, I'm guessing that many of you are going to want to include it.

And after you listen to this episode, I'm guessing that many of you are going to want to include it.

There's a lot of myths and misinformation surrounding soy, demonizing soy, making soy out to be some type of food that's harmful to our health.

And as you'll see in this episode, there's not really much evidence to support any of these claims.

So let's go ahead and jump into the content.

First, let's talk about etymomic.

If you don't know, the little green beans that come in a pod, those are soybeans. This is the most unprocessed form of soy that we can consume. And if we eat a half

...