Holy jiminy Christ that's dumb, and, perhaps even more depressingly, it puts into perspective why a good friend of mine said something lately that I found really dumb and immediately called out. I and my wife have been eating more soy as of late as I'm trying to bring down my meat consumption, (not going vegan, but it's a possibility in the future), as we're eating much, much, MUCH more protein than we're accustomed to as we've finally decided to adopt a more hardcore attitude towards strength training, and as a result we're eating more protein than we typically do. We eat healthy anyway, but lately we're just really turning up the protein intake as we're on a linear progression program, which means go up a bit in weight on every lift on every work out. It's pretty intensive training, and really requires a lot of protein intake to keep up with constantly moving up in weight like that as you might imagine. Anyway, I told my friend about this, and how all of my lifts have been going up consistently since starting the program, and that I've been getting the majority of my protein from egg whites and edamame, (soy beans), and he says, and I quote, "yeah but what are you going to do about the increase in estrogen?" .....I was dumbfounded lol. I just asked him, "does it look like my estrogen levels have gone up?" He sheepishly said, "well no"...... lol. Where did people get this idea that soy boosts estrogen, or perhaps lowers testosterone? It's utterly fucking absurd. I had no idea that my buddy was the type to believe this type of nonsense, and now I'm a bit worried that there may be a bit more to him than I know about. Lately he's been sending me conspiracy theory videos too, man I hope my buddy's not secretly a fucking creep.