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Like what??? Seriously, except for B12 theres nothing a vegan diet doesnt have.
Pistachios are a full protein. Lentils Peas and Veggies make full proteins. What are you on about?
I think they mean if you were just to take your usual diet and remove certain items so as to make your diet keto friendly, you might be fine. But if you took a usual meat/dairy/egg diet and just stopped eating those fortified foods (without finding a substitution for those nutrients), you would be worse off.
Okay, i see what you mean. But i also see that that's a dumb way to think about it? Who changes their diet by just not eating certain foods anymore without incorporating something else.
Some of the most nutritionally complete foods we can eat like spinach and other such veggies are limited (though not excluded) on a keto diet, meanwhile there is no limit to how much of these you can eat as a vegan. But also food isn't just medicine or energy, it can also be poison, and other than refined junk it's going to be the animal foods that are some of the deadliest.
I'll agree with you that foods like wheat and rice are not very nutritious, but also they aren't likely to be the foods that kill you, and you can easily not eat them. Meanwhile keto is very hard to do without animal foods, for many people it's very hard to do even with animal foods. Keto doesn't just require you to exclude a list of foods like you sell it, it has very strict macro requirements which requires monitoring your intake of many of the allowed foods.
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you managed to write a wall of text, but still use 'u' instead of 'you' 🤨
This is the only important part.
Vegan is fine if you're replacing the stuff you take out, not just skip it. It's easier now, but when vegan was just gaining traction, the alternatives weren't as plentyful as they are now.
But just make sure your diet is well balanced.
Potatoes and beans fit nearly all your basic needs. When were potatoes and beans not plentiful? The irish potato famine?
He's talking about before Sir Walter brought them back, when I were a kid we only had turnips and kale...
You have a lot of bad information about keto. It certainly doesn't make you lethargic or miserable, and definitely doesn't starve your brain. Quite the opposite... it's being used therapeutically for Parkinson's disease One of the studies referenced in that article, found here is summarized this way
Regarding energy levels most people report having much more energy, and I suspect your friends issue while in the army doing PT was related to electrolytes. People going on any kind of whole food diet, which keto tends to be, often find they get very little salt in their new diet since they're not eating processed food. People who work out or are otherwise very active often find they have to be intentional about adding salt to their diet or they will in fact find themselves tired and fatigued. Easy to remedy, and again a typical problem for anyone transitioning from a diet with lots of processed foods to one without.
There's been a lot more un-biased study of keto diets in recent years and a lot better science. It's not for everybody, but it's not intrinsically unhealthy and way better than the traditional high-carb, high-sugar, high-processed food diet.
Also, a keto diet does not specifically include or exclude red meat. That's an individuals choice, just like with virtually any other diet that includes animal protein.
This is where you lost all cred. Not before the lack of carnatine.