Is soy good /bad for PC?

Hi,

I keep reading about soy, as source of protein. I would like to use it for my husband who, recently, had robotic surgery...What's your opinion/knowledge about it?thank you!

My cardiologist is not a fan of soy either for men or women. My wife is a vegetarian and I've gone vegetarian and we've been going with plant-based protein vs. soy protein. I don't think the transition from soy is hard.

dbell said...

Tall Allen said...
If his surgery was successful, why fiddlie with his diet (unless there are other issues)?

So TA, based on your response I assume you are not an advocate for "Cancer Fighting" Diets like Mediterranean diet etc. (I know this has been discussed in another thread) No Red Meat or processed food, minimal alcohol, Cruciferous vege's , Tofu, fatty fish etc.....??? I am on this type of diet.....I lost a bunch of weight and feel more energetic....if it helps keep the PCa away then what can be bad here? Worst case scenario, I am eating healthier!

Sounds like you are eating a very healthy diet. I'm doing similar.

dbell said...
So TA, based on your response I assume you are not an advocate for "Cancer Fighting" Diets like Mediterranean diet etc.

I really was only commenting on the fact that the OP's husband just had, hopefully, curative surgery. What is the point of changing his diet now? The poor guy has been through a lot. Our caregivers/loved-ones often want to do something, anything to help us - and that's admirable. But the danger is that the ones whom we most rely on to treat us as human beings (and we are all a lot more than just men living with a disease or having been through a disease) start treating us as patients, foisting extreme diets and supplement regimes upon us. We have been through a lot, and many of us don't have the wherewithal or the desire to fight back against determined loved ones.

As for the Mediterranean diet, the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study found that among men with non-metastatic PC at diagnosis "the Med-Diet was not associated with risk of advanced or lethal PCa."

/www.europeanurology.com/article/S0302-2838(13)00830-0/fulltext

But they also showed that "there was a 22% lower risk of overall mortality among men with greater adherence to the Med-Diet after PCa diagnosis." There are reasons to eat healthier that have nothing to do with prostate cancer.

I've been a vegetarian for nearly 40 years, about 1/2 lacto-ovo and 1/2 vegan over that time. Soy hasn't been a big deal in my diet and I dropped it a couple years ago after my wife's type of breast cancer.

So, I eaten a pretty good diet, good enough that I'm a runner with marathons under my belt and I got prostate cancer.

Who knows? Stuff happens.

F8 said...
"we've been going with plant-based protein vs. soy protein"

soy protein is not plant based? soy is derived from the mung bean. I eat a lot of soy and soy products and so do many (most) Asians.

I'm not a nutritionist, but what I should have said is that we are eating more vegan (plant based less soy) and cutting back on soy. So basically, I've gone from half vegetarian, (50/50 meat, non meat), to strict vegetarian and often pushing vegan when we can get away with it. But I'm Italian and like pasta so in that regard, I've sinned. Sorry for the confusion.