• TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah for real why have I been hearing about it so much lately? Is it the new "phytoestrogens"?

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        i seriously thought it was just weird fallout from the ukraine war and europe's supply of sunflower seed oil being obliterated. like "good don't need them anyway because they make you grow boobs/extra testes/make your junk fall off)

        • iridaniotter [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Interesting but I think the influencer anti-seed oil thing predates the war. I think it's just part of the cycle of fad diets.

      • LucyTheBrazen [she/her]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        Hbomberguy actually made a neat video series about soy and phytoestrogens. As far as I am aware they don't actually turn on the estrogen receptors in your body, the molecules are a similar shape, one reason they are called phytoestrogens.

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Nothing besides the fact that eating a lot of oil is bad for you. There's a lot of bro/influencer pseudoscience about how some oils - usually seed oils - are inflammatory. It's just the new fad diet restriction. Fat, sugar, carbs, now back to fat in the form of oil.