Side Effects of Going Vegan Explained: Health Consequences from Avoiding Wholesome Animal Foods
High Intensity Health with Mike Mutzel, MS
Mike Mutzel
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Removing all animal foods from your diet usually causes unfavorable health consequences, studies suggest. Let's discuss ways to avoid the micronutrient deficiencies that my be present on a plant-based diet.
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Show Notes:
01:28 Deficiencies from these diets cause hair loss (for women too), hormonal changes, skin issues, hypothyroidism, sarcopenia (muscle loss) osteoporosis, and bone fractures.
06:45 Professional medical organizations are promoting vegan and plant-based diets, despite evidence to the contrary.
09:33 There are 5x more former vegans or vegetarians than current ones.
10:00 Plant-based diets do not signify a reduction in all-cause mortality.
11:20 Linked with anxiety, neurologic dysfunction, cognitive impairment, Musculo-skeletal, and immunological issues.
12:00 Supplement with B12, zinc, omega 3 fats, selenium, iodine, and protein.
12:15 Depressive disorders are significantly more common in vegans and vegetarians.
13:30 Eating disorder occurrences are higher in vegans and vegetarians.
16:20 Humans are omnivores.
18:10 Vegans/vegetarians may be more health conscious, which overestimates the health benefits of the diet when compared to other diets.
19:20 Nose to tail eating.
22:25 Supplementing with collagen, organic bone meal, omega 3 fats, and glycosaminoglycan chondroitin may be helpful.
22:50 Processed, overcooked, or burned meat is harmful.
23:20 Fermented foods are more digestible.
25:30 The scientists promote a plant forward omnivorous diet.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends welcome back and today we're going to debunk the myth that vegan and vegetarian |
| 0:03.5 | diets are healthy for humans. I want to read you some stats and figures and not come at this |
| 0:07.0 | from a biased perspective because I am an omnivore, but I want to share it through some data |
| 0:10.8 | and facts because I know a lot of you like science. So we're going to lean on some science from a |
| 0:14.0 | paper titled debunking the vegan myth, the case for a plant forward on nervous whole foods diet |
| 0:18.4 | that was published very recently in the journal progress in cardiovascular diseases by prominent |
| 0:22.8 | authors like Lauren Cordayne and James O'Keefe. And they go into the many health risks that are |
| 0:27.6 | linked with a vegan or vegetarian diet that I think hitherto have been under recognized by |
| 0:32.2 | the activists that support vegan and vegetarian diets for their proposed improvement in supporting |
| 0:37.8 | climate change and overall health improvements. But it's important to recognize that there are |
| 0:42.4 | health consequences and that that's not fear-mongering. There are known health consequences when |
| 0:47.0 | you go on a vegan or vegetarian diets that I think many people that for social or societal |
| 0:53.3 | influences trend towards going vegan or vegetarian are not aware of. And let's talk about some of |
| 0:58.4 | these including depression and anxiety. This is something that we see so much in our culture today. |
| 1:04.3 | Suicides, drug overdoses. We have people now, I think it's like 30 percent of postmenopausal |
| 1:10.0 | women are on psychiatric medications, prozac, effects, or in the like. We know kids are now taking |
| 1:15.8 | polypharmacy when it comes to amphetamines and antidepressants and we know that more and more people |
| 1:20.5 | are plant-based than ever, at least here in the west. And so it's important to recognize there |
| 1:24.8 | is a strong scientific and academically studied from a research standpoint and association with |
| 1:30.8 | mental health issues and going on a vegan or vegetarian diet. And as you can see here in figure |
| 1:35.2 | two that is elucidated by why. The micronutrient deficiencies like omega-3 fatty acid deficiencies |
| 1:41.2 | and zinc deficiencies, hair loss. I see more and more people now with thinning or balding hair in |
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