>>I used to be vegan, for three plus years. I can't recommend the diet. >>It was extremely unhealthy for me, personally. Agreed. It was the worst decision of

>>I used to be vegan, for three plus years. I can't recommend the diet. >>It was extremely unhealthy for me, personally. Agreed. It was the worst decision of my life. I lost considerable muscle mass and power and it wasn't until I had blood work done that I found I was low in creatine, B12 and so forth, the usual things only found in animals. I was told by my vegan "friends" to just take supplements and that's when the alarm bells should have rung: an optimal diet for a strictly amateur athlete shouldn't need such things. I also had alarmingly low testosterone, which I later learned was because I ate so little cholesterol. But stupidly, I stuck with it for years. Eventually I dumped it, started eating animals of all sorts like crazy, regained my muscle mass, power (a function of creatine) and healthy test levels and life became good again.