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> a vegan for years and my health deteriorated That’s unfortunate and I’m sorry to hear that. For others reading, know that this is extremely rare. Most peopl

> a vegan for years and my health deteriorated That’s unfortunate and I’m sorry to hear that. For others reading, know that this is extremely rare. Most people on a vegan diet are healthy (you have to make sure you’re eating a balanced diet, and you don’t need nearly as much protein as you think you do). For iron (which can be lacking especially in women), cook on a cast iron or high carbon steel pan and it will transfer iron into your food that you’ll absorb. I encourage people who are curious about it to watch « Game Changers » where top athletes (Lewis Hamilton, Schwarzenegger, others) talk about switching to a vegan diet and it’s effect on their health and performance. https://www.netflix.com/title/81157840 https://www.netflix.com/title/81157840

delichon 2y ago
It's not so rare in my experience. I was deeply into the vegan scene in Santa Cruz CA with a crowd of quite committed people. Perhaps excessively so. Very clean, mostly raw diets. Several good friends dropped out for health issues like brain fog, cold sensitivity, heart palpitations. Others did quite well. I only know of one who is still vegan two decades later but there are probably others. And of course people who start down such a path are liable to have pre existing conditions. But it's sad to see the people that it isn't working for stay with it for too long out of a sense of shame or a need for community. I wish it were less a matter of identity.
aziaziazi 2y ago
Does this pan trick really gives you iron in a form you can assimilate and in a miningfull quantity?
- ornornor 2y ago
  Surprisingly, yes. My partner had iron deficiency problems and had to take iron pills (which are made from animal blood afaik and give bad stomach aches). If you use the pan very regularly, the trace amounts are enough to add up to enough iron. She doesn’t have that problem anymore for years now. It’s also the idea behind the lucky iron fish[0] to supplement the diet of people in Cambodia where anemia seems to be a problem. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_iron_fish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_iron_fish

delichon 2y ago

It's not so rare in my experience. I was deeply into the vegan scene in Santa Cruz CA with a crowd of quite committed people. Perhaps excessively so. Very clean, mostly raw diets. Several good friends dropped out for health issues like brain fog, cold sensitivity, heart palpitations. Others did quite well. I only know of one who is still vegan two decades later but there are probably others. And of course people who start down such a path are liable to have pre existing conditions. But it's sad to see the people that it isn't working for stay with it for too long out of a sense of shame or a need for community. I wish it were less a matter of identity.

aziaziazi 2y ago

Does this pan trick really gives you iron in a form you can assimilate and in a miningfull quantity?

ornornor 2y ago
Surprisingly, yes. My partner had iron deficiency problems and had to take iron pills (which are made from animal blood afaik and give bad stomach aches). If you use the pan very regularly, the trace amounts are enough to add up to enough iron. She doesn’t have that problem anymore for years now. It’s also the idea behind the lucky iron fish[0] to supplement the diet of people in Cambodia where anemia seems to be a problem. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_iron_fish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_iron_fish