Ironically, for me this sort of thing was the final step to going vegan, so I would be very curious about implementing this. I’d also test the values vegans often reference as positive markers (cholesterol, other b vitamins, etc.)
I was a teenager, and had several vegan friends, while I ate meat. I had wanted to go vegan as a young child, but my conservative doctor father had told me it would make me ill, and had driven that point home with rather ghastly methods, until I believed him. (He fed me nothing by carrots for half a week, while showing me pictures of severely disfigured babies who some twerp had tried to raise on apple juice, and as the week got on, the belief that I was turning into them became increasingly plausible.) So I told my vegan friends that as much as I cared for their ethics, I would never go vegan, for health reasons.
We were all broke as fuck, and went to donate blood. All the vegans did. Lady at the desk told me that unfortunately, I could not, because my blood values were such a mess, especially my iron. I was utterly stunned. Staring at my blood values. Staring at theirs. In utter disbelief. Saying over and over “but I practically live off red meat, how the heck is this possible”. Went vegan shortly afterwards. I’ve regularly tested and kept an eye on things, and my blood values got better, not worse. Still confused by it.
Ironically, for me this sort of thing was the final step to going vegan, so I would be very curious about implementing this. I’d also test the values vegans often reference as positive markers (cholesterol, other b vitamins, etc.)
I was a teenager, and had several vegan friends, while I ate meat. I had wanted to go vegan as a young child, but my conservative doctor father had told me it would make me ill, and had driven that point home with rather ghastly methods, until I believed him. (He fed me nothing by carrots for half a week, while showing me pictures of severely disfigured babies who some twerp had tried to raise on apple juice, and as the week got on, the belief that I was turning into them became increasingly plausible.) So I told my vegan friends that as much as I cared for their ethics, I would never go vegan, for health reasons.
We were all broke as fuck, and went to donate blood. All the vegans did. Lady at the desk told me that unfortunately, I could not, because my blood values were such a mess, especially my iron. I was utterly stunned. Staring at my blood values. Staring at theirs. In utter disbelief. Saying over and over “but I practically live off red meat, how the heck is this possible”. Went vegan shortly afterwards. I’ve regularly tested and kept an eye on things, and my blood values got better, not worse. Still confused by it.