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The debate about the health benefits of soy-based foods continues. However, fears that such foods might lead to erectile dysfunction by reducing testosterone levels appear baseless.
Conflicting claims about the health effects of soy products in recent years have confused consumers and incited unwarranted panic about the possible health threats such products might pose.
Of particular concern to men were reports that heavy consumption of soy-based foods could lead to a sharp decline in their blood levels of testosterone, the primary male sex hormone. Needless to say, such reports also led to concerns about the effects of soy products on erectile function.
Little Effect on Testosterone Levels
As it turns out, such concerns are largely baseless. While it is true that certain soy-based foods are high in phytoestrogens, plant-based equivalents of the female sex hormone estrogen, testing has confirmed that even these foods are unlikely to significantly reduce testosterone levels.
According to the International Society for Sexual Medicine, soy intake “does not raise or lower a man’s testosterone levels.” The society cites a large-scale 2010 review of the scientific literature relevant to soy and its effects on hormone levels.
That study, conducted jointly by researchers from California’s Loma Linda University and the University of Michigan, reviewed more than 45 previously published studies on this relationship. It found no real evidence that soy reduces blood levels of testosterone.
Which Foods Contain Soy?
Soy-derived ingredients are present in a wide variety of food products and are often used in meat substitutes and other products favored by those who are following vegetarian or vegan diets. Among the most common meat substitutes are tofu and soy protein, both of which are soy-based.
Other common soy-based foods include edamame, miso (a salty soy-based paste used widely in Japanese cuisine), soy milk, soy nuts, tempeh, textured soy protein, and whole soybeans.
British dietitian Nichola Ludlum-Raine says that many of the claims about the hormonal effects of soy products have been based on animal studies. In an interview posted at the website of The Independent, she notes that the animals in these studies were fed extremely large amounts of soy foods, far more than any human would ever consume.
Furthermore, notes Ludlum-Raine, laboratory animals metabolize soy differently than humans, and the two should never really be compared.
Confusion at the FDA
Even the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seems to be a bit confused about the health benefits associated with soy intake. In the fall of 2017, the regulatory agency proposed revoking its 1999 claim that soy protein could reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by lowering cholesterol levels. It has not yet done so, however.
That same year, according to a report posted at FoodandNutrition.org, the FDA observed that “supportive but inconclusive scientific evidence suggests that eating about 1½ tablespoons of soybean oil daily may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.”
No matter what the FDA’s final verdict on soy’s heart benefits may be, ample evidence has been produced to confirm that normal soy consumption poses no real danger to a man’s erectile function.
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