Re: Sheely - need advice

Hi Hi!

Yes, this is a major problem with vegetarian diets, which is why I promote eating eggs and liver occasionally. But if you simply don't want to eat any animal products for personal reasons, you will have to accept that you're permanently trading away your health if you do so for more than a year or so.

The only way to mitigate it is to take a good B vitamin supplement, one that includes B12. Some people have to take B12 shots because they don't digest the pills well. Nutritional yeast is a good source of most B's, but it doesn't have B12. There really is no good vegetarian way to get B12, so pure vegans can expect to get Alzheimers, sigh.

Skin food is vitamin A, C, EFAs, E, Zinc. To get these in a vegetarian diet you need to always eat your carrots/yams/sweet potatoes wtih some kind of fat so that the beta-carotene gets turned into Vitamin A. You really can't rely on Vit A pills, they lead to toxicity.

be sure to add extra virgin coconut oil to your diet, use olive oil liberally on your salads (you HAVE to make your own salad dressing, commercial dressings are rancid and use the wrong fats). Raw, soaked nuts are a good source of EFAs too, especially almonds. A flax-based oil is okay, but is somewhat estrogenic.

Eat foods high in zinc or take 15 mg a day. Zinc makes Vitamin A available to the rest of the body. Without it, it just hangs out in the liver. Zinc also is necessary for eye health, and it's a part of most metabolic functions.

Eat foods high in E or take Wheat Germ Oil, which has E and B's. Tweet