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Can a vegan go keto?

Absolutely.

They might not be able to stay vegan, but they can certainly go keto.

Nothing stopping them.

The more the merrier.

Okay, jokes aside, can someone go keto while remaining vegan?

That's a tougher problem, not intractable, but real tough.

One reason it's so challenging is that the most protein-rich vegan foods also happen to be relatively

high in carbohydrates, the very macronutrient you need to limit on keto. You could load up on a

complex blend of legumes and rice to obtain adequate protein containing all the essential amino acids,

but you'd end up overdoing it on the carbohydrates and knocking yourself out of ketosis.

Protein is extremely important and hard to obtain on a normal vegan diet.

It's even harder on a keto-vegan diet.

Also, the easiest vegan sources of fat and protein, nuts and seeds, aren't meant to be staple foods.

No one should base their diet on nuts for a few reasons.

They have excessive omega-6. Most nuts are very high in linoleic acid, the omega-6 fat that most

modern people consume too much of already. This will throw your omega-3 to omega-6 ratio out of whack.

They have excessive calories. Nuts can just disappear down your

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