There's a video of a woman recounting her experiences with veganism. I'm going to summarize her story, as she tells it:
Some years ago she and her boyfriend were, essentially, "converted" into hard-core veganism, and they started a pure vegan diet. After a few months, both of them start having strange symptoms. Not only do they feel constantly sick in the stomach, including stomach pains, but they also develop sporadic bouts of skin acne (she shows a photo of her face when she was suffering from severe acne). The symptoms of the boyfriend are much worse than hers. They ask about this at some vegan forums, and they get convinced that they are just "detoxing", so they do nothing about it.
However, as the symptoms don't go away and only get worse with time, they finally go to a doctor. After examination and testing the doctor concludes that they have a gut infection, bacterial overgrowth of the intestine, which is causing all the symptoms. The underlying cause for it is the vegan diet. Besides giving antibiotics for the bacterial infection, the doctor sternly recommends a change in diet. They need more protein and less carbs and fiber. (Ironically, while fiber is very important, too much of it can be dangerous, and purely vegan diets tend to have too much fiber.)
While they take the antibiotic regimen, they ignore the doctor's advice of dietary change. She says that they don't trust doctors, and that the vegan diet cannot be unhealthy, and doctors are just ignorant about it. Their symptoms get better during the regimen, but once it's over, the symptoms almost immediately come back.
She goes on to describe how during the next several months they go to doctor after doctor, and even some naturopaths... and pretty much all of them say the same thing: They have to change their diet. It's the underlying cause of all the symptoms. Over all this time both of them have also developed symptoms of nutrient deficiencies of several kinds. Yet, again and again they ignore it.
By this point the health of the boyfriend is deteriorating quite fast. He is losing lots of weight because he is unable to digest food efficiently, and he's constantly very tired, has constant stomach pains and severe acne. The last doctor they go to tells him directly and bluntly that if he doesn't change his diet, he is going to die. He's starving himself to death.
Finally, he listens to the advice, and starts supplementing his diet with daily eggs, fish and chicken.
Now, get this: She says in the video that in a mere five days his condition improved dramatically. The stomach pain was gone, the acne was gone, and he was feeling well and energetic. All of his symptoms were cured in less than a week.
And now, here's the kicker: Even after telling all of this, she still did not denounce veganism. In fact, she says in the video that she was "devastated" that the only solution to her boyfriends problems was eating meat. She also says in the video that she does not blame veganism itself for these problems (she goes to ramble something about all people being different and having different nutritional needs, and stuff like that.)
That's how strong the veganism indoctrination is. Even after having personally experienced and witnessed first-hand the devastating health effect that it can have, she still defends veganism, promotes it, and doesn't fault it for anything. The only thing she's sad about the whole ordeal is that her boyfriend (and I think to some extent she herself) cannot follow a purely vegan diet.
And this is not a unique one-in-a-million rare case. You can find plenty of similar stories of people following a purely vegan diet, getting ill from it, no matter how much they try to vary their diet while still keeping it purely vegan, and getting almost immediately better after going back to a healthier varied diet. Some of these people denounce veganism due to this experience, others still cling to it and can't let go.
Here is an example of another person, from another video. In 2015 she made a video about her starting on veganism:
The same girl in 2018:
And yes, you guessed it right: She is not blaming veganism for her symptoms.
Many seemingly healthy alleged long-time vegans out there have been outed for cheating: They do consume some animal products (usually fish, chicken, eggs or milk) furtively, yet keep up the pretense, the lie, that they are 100% vegan. Some of them are taking supplements that come from animal products. In other cases these vegans are clearly suffering from malnutrition, even though they claim they feel fine. There might be a few people out there who don't suffer many ill effects, but they seem to be more of a rarity.
The fact is that pure veganism can be dangerous to your health in the long run. It's not healthy. No civilization has ever survived on pure veganism. This is a pure invention of the last few decades.
Some years ago she and her boyfriend were, essentially, "converted" into hard-core veganism, and they started a pure vegan diet. After a few months, both of them start having strange symptoms. Not only do they feel constantly sick in the stomach, including stomach pains, but they also develop sporadic bouts of skin acne (she shows a photo of her face when she was suffering from severe acne). The symptoms of the boyfriend are much worse than hers. They ask about this at some vegan forums, and they get convinced that they are just "detoxing", so they do nothing about it.
However, as the symptoms don't go away and only get worse with time, they finally go to a doctor. After examination and testing the doctor concludes that they have a gut infection, bacterial overgrowth of the intestine, which is causing all the symptoms. The underlying cause for it is the vegan diet. Besides giving antibiotics for the bacterial infection, the doctor sternly recommends a change in diet. They need more protein and less carbs and fiber. (Ironically, while fiber is very important, too much of it can be dangerous, and purely vegan diets tend to have too much fiber.)
While they take the antibiotic regimen, they ignore the doctor's advice of dietary change. She says that they don't trust doctors, and that the vegan diet cannot be unhealthy, and doctors are just ignorant about it. Their symptoms get better during the regimen, but once it's over, the symptoms almost immediately come back.
She goes on to describe how during the next several months they go to doctor after doctor, and even some naturopaths... and pretty much all of them say the same thing: They have to change their diet. It's the underlying cause of all the symptoms. Over all this time both of them have also developed symptoms of nutrient deficiencies of several kinds. Yet, again and again they ignore it.
By this point the health of the boyfriend is deteriorating quite fast. He is losing lots of weight because he is unable to digest food efficiently, and he's constantly very tired, has constant stomach pains and severe acne. The last doctor they go to tells him directly and bluntly that if he doesn't change his diet, he is going to die. He's starving himself to death.
Finally, he listens to the advice, and starts supplementing his diet with daily eggs, fish and chicken.
Now, get this: She says in the video that in a mere five days his condition improved dramatically. The stomach pain was gone, the acne was gone, and he was feeling well and energetic. All of his symptoms were cured in less than a week.
And now, here's the kicker: Even after telling all of this, she still did not denounce veganism. In fact, she says in the video that she was "devastated" that the only solution to her boyfriends problems was eating meat. She also says in the video that she does not blame veganism itself for these problems (she goes to ramble something about all people being different and having different nutritional needs, and stuff like that.)
That's how strong the veganism indoctrination is. Even after having personally experienced and witnessed first-hand the devastating health effect that it can have, she still defends veganism, promotes it, and doesn't fault it for anything. The only thing she's sad about the whole ordeal is that her boyfriend (and I think to some extent she herself) cannot follow a purely vegan diet.
And this is not a unique one-in-a-million rare case. You can find plenty of similar stories of people following a purely vegan diet, getting ill from it, no matter how much they try to vary their diet while still keeping it purely vegan, and getting almost immediately better after going back to a healthier varied diet. Some of these people denounce veganism due to this experience, others still cling to it and can't let go.
Here is an example of another person, from another video. In 2015 she made a video about her starting on veganism:
The same girl in 2018:
And yes, you guessed it right: She is not blaming veganism for her symptoms.
Many seemingly healthy alleged long-time vegans out there have been outed for cheating: They do consume some animal products (usually fish, chicken, eggs or milk) furtively, yet keep up the pretense, the lie, that they are 100% vegan. Some of them are taking supplements that come from animal products. In other cases these vegans are clearly suffering from malnutrition, even though they claim they feel fine. There might be a few people out there who don't suffer many ill effects, but they seem to be more of a rarity.
The fact is that pure veganism can be dangerous to your health in the long run. It's not healthy. No civilization has ever survived on pure veganism. This is a pure invention of the last few decades.
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