I was looking for a reason why eating unfermented soy products could be harmful to health. It's a no-brainer that pumping a man full of phyto-estrogens will probably turn him gay (just a joke of course) but ingesting all those pseudo-sex hormones can't be good. Apparently soy can also mess with your thyroid and prevent you from taking zinc into your system, which would bro-science suggests to likely inhibit testosterone production.
Here's the article I found. I googled Dr. Mercola's wikipedia page and found that he gets attacked by a lot of the medical establishment but a lot of his articles are something that I agree with. He's against eating grains and suggests improving health by changing diet, which I think is primo.
Is this guy credible?
Soy, Brain Damage, and Cancer
From his wikipedia page --
Here's probably the most cringeworthy reason why I'd consider him not to be credible --
Here's the article I found. I googled Dr. Mercola's wikipedia page and found that he gets attacked by a lot of the medical establishment but a lot of his articles are something that I agree with. He's against eating grains and suggests improving health by changing diet, which I think is primo.
Is this guy credible?
Soy, Brain Damage, and Cancer
From his wikipedia page --
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Mercola advocates a diet consisting mostly of unprocessed foods. He sees value in paleolithic diets and advocates metabolic typing, and is a proponent of vegetable juicing.[16] Mercola argues fervently against over-consumption of sugar, especially high-fructose corn syrup, which is the predominant sweetener of many commercial sodas and soft drinks, and processed flour and grains, which the body rapidly converts into sugar. He has also been an advocate of increasing the consumption of Omega-3 fats and of strategies to greatly increase blood levels of Vitamin D3.
Mercola's dietary recommendations often put him at odds with mainstream dietary advice.[11] Mercola encourages the ingestion of unprocessed saturated fats, including unrefined coconut oil in place of polyunsaturated fats such as vegetable, corn, soy, safflower, sunflower and canola oils.[17]
Here's probably the most cringeworthy reason why I'd consider him not to be credible --
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HIV and AIDS
Mercola has questioned whether HIV is the cause of AIDS. He has argued instead that the manifestations of AIDS (including opportunistic infections and death) may be the result of "psychological stress" brought on by the belief that HIV is harmful.[28] Mercola.com has featured positive presentations of the claims of AIDS denialists, a fringe group which denies the existence of AIDS and/or the role of HIV in causing it.[28][29]
The scientific community considers the evidence that HIV causes AIDS to be conclusive[30][31] and rejects AIDS-denialist claims as pseudoscience based on conspiracy theories,[32] faulty reasoning, cherry picking, and misrepresentation of mainly outdated scientific data.[30][31][33]