All about Soy

**Boni** · 03-18-2006, 02:58 AM

Is anyone able to drink soy milk? Or eat products that contain soy? What is the deal with soy? Why can't we have it?

I seem to be ok with Silk Soymilk, most of the time. It appears to me that cows milk causes me to burn more. But, today i drank some hot soymilk with about 1/8 cup of coffee in it and I noticed a slight burn.

**jen48446** · 03-18-2006, 03:19 AM

I am fine however I don't use anything you'd buy in a store...the soy I drink really helps me with a lot of health issues that I have. Mine is a powder that I put in Tropicana Low Acid No Pulp orange juice. Until I started using the supplements & vitamins that I use I couldn't even drink the orange juice, now I'm eating strawberries it's wonderful!! Looking forward to trying grapefruit too, I have missed that:-)

**Kara Isabel** · 03-18-2006, 03:21 AM

I can't. I tried it early on in my elimination diet and it made me flare! Which is tragic, because I have a major aversion to cows milk....

**Sharon** · 03-18-2006, 03:28 AM

Read some of Bev's old Fresh Taste articles. She wrote about soy, and it was very informative.

**sami4** · 03-18-2006, 02:20 PM

Once I went on a soy diet to try to lower my cholesterol. I drank soy mild, ate soy burgers, soy steak strips, soy chicken, soy ice cream. After about a month I had a very bad bladder, vulva, urethra flare. My Gyno took a blood serum level of estrogen. Even though I was taking 1 mg of Estradiol my level was about 20 when it should have been about 120. She said soy is an estrogen blocker and blocked my estrogen, hence the flare of UT symptoms.
I never ate much soy after that. It is also interesting that in the Orient the amount of soy they eat in a week is about one soy shake is here. They also eat it in whole food method not concentrated form. Tofu, Edamae and so on.
Sammie

***Julie B*** · 03-18-2006, 05:53 PM

I was in denial about soy for a long time.....I didn't want to think it bothered me, but when I started taking it out, I felt so much better. Every now and then I accidently eat something with soy and I feel it..........

**theclownster** · 03-19-2006, 05:04 AM

Hi there! I think I do okay on soy. I mostly just drink soymilk on occassion. I like other soy products, but tend not to eat it too often. I love both soy and skim milk and drink them both fairly often without any significant problems. I'm sure it's like anything else, it's different for all of us.