Dr. Shawn Baker challenges vegan jihadis, eats only meat for 15 months. Think he's unhealthy? Here's what happened...

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palou said:

Aeolus451 said:

Both of those sides are no better than flat earthers. Either diet would require alot of nutritional supplements to make up for what they would be lacking although the meat diet wouldn't be that deficient if they ate the organs of animals.

What nutritional components specifically (that aren't produced by the body without issue) would you say can't be found in non-animal food source?

Well Vitamin B12. Yes, the body produces it, but as we are no herbivores and have shorter digestion tracks it produces not enough. But that is the only essential component I know of, which vegans really have to take into consideration. Plants usually don't store B12 (produced is it ever only by microbes, prokaryotes to be precise), as they don't have a central neervous system to support. Unwashed plants can have B12, because of the dirt which contains feces. Actually eating feces is what some species (rabbits for instance) do, to supply this. In the guts and in the feces live the microbes that create B12.

But well, this is the only one missing on a purely non-animal source of food (vegans). If you eat milk, milk-products or eggs (vegetarians) you're fine with that. Or as a vegan you can supply this by pills or special food created with consideration of B12. In the end it is all about creating the right environment for the microbes to produce it.