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165. Are plant-based diets appropriate for children and pregnancy? With Ex-Vegan Jon Venus

Paul Saladino MD podcast

Paul Saladino, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Vlogging star Jon Venus was dubbed one of the 'world's hottest vegans' with his virtuous lifestyle earning him a staggering 83,000 Instagram fans and 225,000 YouTube subscribers who follow his every meal. He recently switched to a primarily animal based diet, causing an uproar in the vegan community.

Time Stamps:

00:07:54 Podcast begins

00:09:45 Who is Jon Venus?

00:15:18 Getting hate for switching diets

00:18:17 Steroids and hormones

00:21:15 Getting sunlight and Vitamin D at a high latitude

00:24:18 Transitioning from a vegan diet to eating meat

00:31:20 Observations and anecdotes about the vegan community at large

00:37:30 Nutritional deficiencies in vegetarian infants

00:41:00 Rationalization for supplementation on a vegan diet

00:46:30 Vegans secretly eating fish and meat

00:48:38 What did Jon Venus’ day of eating

00:50:30 Should children eat a vegan diet?

1:10:20 Thoughts on Choline

1:21:40 Healthy user bias

1:26:33 Where can people find Jon Venus?

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Co. Co our mission is to help you reclaim your birth right to optimal radical health. This week I had John Venus on the podcast John was on a couple of years ago, right when he transitioned from being a very well known vegan proponent.

1:15.2

He's eating meat in the two years since then he's eaten a lot more meat. He actually did a six month experiment where he went back to being plant based.

1:22.2

As he talks about in this podcast that caused a recurrence of all of his symptoms, muscle cramping, joint pains, etc.

1:28.6

Recently, he's been eating a lot of meat on the order of what I eat and fruit. Interesting. He's getting some organs too. He's basically eating an anal based diet.

1:35.8

We talk about his experiences, what he observed in the vegan community.

1:39.2

He's gotten from the vegan community. Vegan's are pretty carnivorous when it comes to actually guys. And we talk about his kids and what he observed in vegan kids.

1:48.2

He has one child who was born when both his wife were vegan and one child his daughter who was born when neither of them were vegan.

1:54.6

They have different health outcomes and different growth anecdotal but quite interesting.

1:58.2

We go through a lot of science in this one and we talk about why a plant based diet is no way shape or form an optimal diet for humans in any stage of our lives.

2:07.3

So enjoy this podcast with animal based proponent. John Venus who's an awesome guy.

2:13.8

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