Does Soya Chunks Causes Man Boobs?

For all the bros who are in to gymming and bodybuilding must have heard from your trainers or seniors that soya chunks causes’ man boob or something like soya chunks will cause hormonal change in your body. Let’s know the actual truth of it and from where this idea came from.

Now, soya chunks contains a substance called isoflavons and these isoflavons contain plant estrogen , estrogen is the hormone responsible for female characteristics in females and that’s where the idea comes that eating soya chunks will cause man boobs.

Let have some scientific and statistical view on this matter. So an experiment was conducted where rodents were given 20miligrams of estrogen daily and they started showing rise in estrogen level in their body not immediately but after few weeks. Now 100grams of soya chunks contain 52g of protein and 156miligrams of isoflavons and 2.2miligrams of estrogen. Which means 100g of soya chunks contain 2.2miligrams of estrogen. Comparing ourselves with rodents we will need 1kg of soya chunks daily to activate female hormone in our body which will result in man boobs. But I don’t think any of us will be having 1kg of soya chunks daily.

So coming to the conclusion, yes we can have soya chunks in our diet especially if we want to make lean muscles. Soya chunks contain 52g protein per 100g of it which will cost around 20rs in India, and that is way cheaper than any other quality protein source – most probably the cheapest protein source. But how much soya can we have in a day? Now the science of food says anything in excess amount can harm you, so having soya chunks with one of the meals in a day and having any other kind of protein is just perfect.