Soy weakens your immune system

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Soy weakens your immune system

 

 

Soy Weakens Your Immune System

 

A hormone-like compound found in soy products, including soy-based infant

formulas and menopause remedies, may impair immune function.

When mice were injected with the " plant estrogen " genistein, which is found

in soy products, levels of several immune cells dropped and the thymus, a

gland where immune cells mature, shrank.

Of course, people eat rather than inject soy products, but the thymus also

became smaller in mice that consumed genistein in their diet. This is

particularly concerning, researchers say, since the resulting blood levels

of genistein in the mice were lower than those reported in human babies fed

soy formula.

A few reports from the late 1970s and early 1980s suggested that a soy-based

diet impaired infants' immune functions. About 15% of infants in the US, or

roughly 750,000 children, consume soy-based formula each year.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=1\

2023462 & dopt=Abstract

 

May 21, 2002;99:7616-7621

 

 

 

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