Is soy bad for you? coming up next. hi I am Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if
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anything.People ask me all the time if they can eat soy or they can eat wheat
and if they can eat blueberries. And more often than not it's not necessarily a
good or a bad food but what we have done to it and soy is one of those also it
became very popular a few decades ago when they discovered that Japanese
people ate a lot of soy and they were really healthy so then we said let's try
to eat a lot of soy and see if we can get healthy but the problem is that in
Japan and almost everything that they ate was
fermented soy because soy is a really really tough protein to digest it's it's
a very rich nutritious food but it has a lot of protein and it's not easy for us
to break it down and if we can't break it down now it starts to create problems
so like many native populations like humans have learned to do for hundreds
of years the Japanese learn to ferment it like Germans turn cabbage into
sauerkraut and people learn to to pickle and ferment various different foods both
to preserve it but also to get help in digesting it so what the fermentation
does it pre digests the food so that it's easier for us to break it down but
then it also has some bacteria in it that are beneficial for us they're part
of our normal healthy flora so that's the the first problem so the next thing
to be concerned with is that virtually all soy in the US is genetically
modified it's a GMO products and if you're concerned about your health you
want to stay as far from those as you can so if you eat any soy then make sure
that it's organic now the fact we want to know about is that soy has
phytoestrogens that means that they have components they have chemicals in it
that mimic the body's hormones they fit into receptor sites and they can start
changing your body's balance and in large amounts this creates problems so
be moderate in the consumption with with the soy and just like any other food
that we consume we don't want to destroy it first with massive processing and
virtually all the soil that we eat is massively processed so we get it as
soybean oil which has been bleached and de-gummed and denatured and God knows
what so there's very little from the food that's left it's a it's a Frank-n-
food essentially we also get it in protein bars and we get it in protein
powders and then it's in the form of soy protein isolate and they use chemicals
to extract the various different proteins from it and now again it's a
chemical product it's a foreign product it is used as a filler product and as a
filler protein in just about every processed food so anytime that you see
textured vegetable protein or textured this or vegetable that with the protein
then it's gonna be a soy protein that has been altered so all of those you
want to stay away from and soy be a healthy food yes absolutely so if you
enjoy it then make sure that you get organic make sure that you eat it
fermented and now you want to eat it in the form of tofu and miso and natto and
so forth so if you like this sort of information if you'd like to get to the
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