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Microblog: Plant-Based Diet — Limited Nutrients
There’s a reason why people that try plant-based come back to meat: a plant-based diet is an INCOMPLETE diet without supplementation. You just won’t feel well over time.
🥕VITAMIN A: 12–24X more bioavailable in meats. Some don’t have the gene to convert plants into usable vitamin A so carrots won’t do you any good.
(Ps. And why the concern of hypervitaminosis)
📖And if you read my Ray Peat blog post, carrots are soaked in either chlorine or gut-killing solutes.
🐂VITAMIN B12: NOT found in plant foods. Long-term supplementation is not the same as real foods.
🐟VITAMIN D3: NOT found in plant-based foods. D3 is a fat-soluble vitamin that helps your body absorb calcium and phosphorus for bone health.
🦐VITAMIN E: LOW in plant foods. A fat-soluble vitamin.
🐖VITAMIN K2: NOT found in plant foods EXCEPT natto. It’s a popular food in Japan. How many of you have had it? It’s fermented soybeans (probably the safest way to eat soybeans)-another fat-soluble vitamin.
🩸IRON: Heme iron is 3X more bioavailable than non-heme (plant) iron. And antinutrients like oxalates block iron absorption. So if you’re consuming spinach for iron, sorry, but they’re HIGH in oxalates.