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Re:How to get enough protein without meat by cies on Sunday November 19, 2017 @06:36PM (#15736595)
> Aren't low testosteron levels a bigger issue?

Nope. Vegans have higher T levels. Also higher than vegetarians. Here an article with plenty links to studies:

https://nutritionfacts.org/2013/02/12/less-cancer-in-vegan-m...

Re:How to get enough protein without meat by fingerprinter on Sunday November 19, 2017 @07:04PM (#15736714)
Linking to nutritionfacts.org is like linking to Exxon with an article on why green energy is bad.
Re:How to get enough protein without meat by scarmig on Sunday November 19, 2017 @07:42PM (#15736914)
It's not like the "tofu shuts down all your male hormones!" meme is anything more than bro science.
Re:How to get enough protein without meat by cies on Sunday November 19, 2017 @08:50PM (#15737202)
What does nutritionfacts.org sell? Broccolli?

Does nutritionfacts.org pay for studies? Nope. (Exxon does)

Sorry, bad comparison. But I understand what you mean: Greger eats a plant based diet himself so he must be biased and the probably goes about cherry picking studies to match his beliefs. After a lot of research I've come to the conclusion he's honest and works in the interest of people's health.

Re:How to get enough protein without meat by saosebastiao on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:59AM (#15740288)
> What does nutritionfacts.org sell?

A religion.

Re:How to get enough protein without meat by lesiva on Sunday November 19, 2017 @09:03PM (#15737257)
So the article that you linked focuses on cancer, and even the claim about testosterone links to another article on the site that also focuses on cancer and not on testosterone.

Turning to the article's sources, you find [1] source for the testosterone claim. And the summary at the beginning of that study states the following:

"Vegans had higher testosterone levels than vegetarians and meat-eaters, but this was offset by higher sex hormone binding globulin, and there were no differences between diet groups in free testosterone, androstanediol glucuronide or luteinizing hormone."

So higher overall testosterone, the same amount of free testosterone. I think this is a perfect example of selectively reporting on scientific studies. The author of that article may not technically be wrong, but it encourages spreading bad advice when you repeat that claim over and over again without the caveats mentioned in the actual studies.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2374537/pdf/83-...

It's worth noting that it's even in the title of the study: "Hormones and diet: low insulin-like growth factor-I but normal bioavailable androgens in vegan men". There's no excuse for misrepresenting that.