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More research isn't a bad thing, but this really isn't news. If you're a nerd who's into lifting you'd already know that soy protein is a top tier source of all the important amino acids for muscle gain. And it's cheaper than whey.
It's also not very popular because the manosphere tells men that consuming it will feminize them. Yes, really. They took the "soy boy" thing very literally and ran with it off the deep end.
I remember about a decade ago talking about tofu recipes with a colleague who lifted and ate a protein heavy diet.
An older colleague heard us and warned us that eating tofu would cause you to have a surplus of estrogen and make you more feminine.
He was telling this to a guy built like a brick shithouse who had eaten tons of soy protein for the better part of a decade.
It's that same old thing, something different comes along and some people just have to parrot anything that goes against that thing, even if it's complete and utter horseshit
Do they forget that estrogen is also a steroid?
Yes, yes they do. Or, more accurately, they didn't know that in the first place. These people are often just running on what are essentially old wives' tales of things to be afraid of because it will hurt their masculinity or something.