Yeah MisterE thanks for the confirmation -- it fits what I've been experiencing subjectively.
There's a lot of misinformation out there, such as that legumes or soy or wheat are estrogenic.My experience has been the opposite.
Low-fat/high-fiber foods as a rule of thump tend to decrease estrogen. Wheat-fiber is strongly anti-estrogenic. In terms of soy being estrogenic, I do think that soybean-oil and rather the linoleic-acid it contains, could promote estrogen downstream, via prostaglandin-E2 synthesis.
But low-fat foods and high-fiber foods like barley, oats, beans, lentils, whole-grains, vegetables, fruits, spices, are the healthiest in that they directly pull estrogen out of circulation via bile-excretion, but also changes in the bacteria in the intestines in an anti-estrogenic way as well. Also these foods are low in fat, so you become much leaner, which cuts down on aromatase-expression. These are all the reasons why I think that low-fat/high-fiber complex-carbohydrate diets explain why men eating this way have better hormonal balance compared to the rest of the population:
https://www.ncbi.nlm...pubmed/10883675
https://www.ncbi.nlm...tikin estradiol
https://www.ncbi.nlm...pubmed/19087438
Edited by misterE, 20 January 2018 - 06:25 AM.