Raw Vegan Starves Herself To Death: Tragic Story of Zhanna D'Art 

My little sister developed orthorexia age 14 as a result of following the diet of health and fitness influencers. At one point her period stopped, she started growing hair on her body and nurses were unable to draw blood from her. Thankfully we were able to get through to her before it went any further. I was heavily pregnant taking her to countless therapy appointments in a desperate attempt to break the hold this mentality had on her. It was worth every ounce of effort, today she’s a vibrant healthy 21 year old.

This is deeper than a raw vegan diet.

Imagine how sick you have to be when you look in the mirror and what you see looking back at you is not enough to convince you that you are on the wrong path.

Very sad. It clearly ate away at her Mental capacity too. Awful.

The thing about her is that she barely eats... when you eat that type of diet... you have to eat MASSIVE amounts. She literally starved to death.

Cholera can quickly become fatal in even normal weight people. She didn't stand much of a chance. Poor girl - may she rest in peace.

Condolences to her family and friends. I got anorexic doing fruitarianism for just 6 months. My whole family was very worried. Thank God my eyes were opened and I got out of that when I did or I might've suffered the same fate.

I've been vegan for 8 years in the early 00's. I remember feeling great the first few years, but later I developed some problems, such as weakness, grey skin (I looked GREY IN PHOTOS and I didn't know why!), and also my short memory started to fail (I couldn't remember what my teacher at college said 30 seconds ago, so I wasn't able to follow my classes). Now I look back at my photos and I looked really bad. Today a friend sent me a photo from back in the day and I looked older than what I look now, it's unbelievable. And to all those cult vegans who may say _"You were not doing it right"_ I'll say that I was eating EVERYTHING VEGAN THERE WAS. I would even prepare my own food (raw, boiled, fried, grilled, name it) from all different sources. Vegans can be extremely agressive (also a lot of passive agression), so it wasn't hard for me to go back eating eggs, meat and diary. As the years progressed vegans became more agressive and judgemental, that's one of the main reasons I quit it, and that was one of the greatest decisions. XOXO

Sad, my son is the same... he isn’t vegan or vegetarian... lost his teeth so no joy in eating, has ferritin problems . Child leukaemia survivor. Don’t know how to help him he thinks he looks okay, 31 and depressed every day 😞

About 20 years ago I went on a raw vegan diet for 1 year. I always felt cold, I lost a whole lot of weight and was really skinny, I had no color in my skin, and I looked emaciated. Luckily I started seeing an alternative MD to help figure out some of my health issues (like gluten intolerance, multiple food sensitivities, hypothyroidism, heavy metal poisoning, chronic fatigue, etc.). He ran some blood tests and found that I had hypoproteinemia, and that my body had been cannibalizing itself for protein. He asked me about my diet and then told me to "Knock it off" (that raw vegan diet) before I killed myself. Thankfully, I listened to him and started eating meat again. It didn't take long before my color came back and I didn't look emaciated... even though I really hadn't gained any weight. The difference was striking.

So freaking sad. Even in her illness she couldn't see herself deteriorating. 😢😢

My vegan housemate held a bbq at our house, the vegan guests hardly brought any food and so ended up eating ours whilst also judging us for having dairy products in the fridge. The worst was a raw vegan guy who brought nothing and then ate the whole bowl of guacamole I made as that was the only thing he could eat. Definitely some weird issues and judgemental attitudes around food and eating amongst them and definitely a cult ish feel to their beliefs.

A lot of people use restrictive diets to mask an eating disorder. "I can't eat that because I'm a (whatever)." In reality, for them, it's just an ostensible reason to refuse food that's offered to them. However, we must remember that it's not necessarily their professed diet itself that caused their health problems.

She had a modern day form of anorexia, this is a psychological condition that needs addressing with professional help. I wonder how many other vegans are hiding this tragic health condition behind the front of veganism.

Thank you for this post. Allthough it is sad, it is very important. I used to be vegan for 14 years. I felt great to begin with, but after some years I got problems. I could never understand it was related to what I ate, as my bloodwork was fine every year. So I continued. I was brainwashed and had my identitity wrapped around being vegan.I ate a so called balanced vegan diet, mainly whole foods and organic. Not soy chunks and that sort of "foods". Nuts, seeds, the "complete" sources of protein, and so on. I also took supplements. I really made an effort to make it work. As my symptoms got worse, I took it further to raw veganism, juicing and detoxing. I was lead to believe I was feeling sick due to "toxins". I was all an board with that. This never had an effect, if anything it caused more stress, needing to eat "perfect". I could have easily lost control during this phase, but I was lucky to be able to snap out and get back to other foods. I had a long list of nasty symptoms that I had ignored. Poor bones, hair loss, always feeling cold, bad anxiet and general mental issues, lips were pale/bluish, tics/spasms n face, the list goes on. These are a lot of the same symptoms many talks about experiencing. Then I learned about antinutrients in plants and bioavailabilty in foods, which made me question if we can really trust blood work eating like this. So I started to incorporate animal foods again, slowly. My brain and cognitive function was the first thing I noticed. We are talking days, not weeks and months. And the rest of my symptoms got better as time passed by. I am still recovering, and not really sure if I will do a full recovery. In my process, Ive seen several ex-vegans being harassed and shamed in public. "You were never vegan" is the standard phrase. Wishing harm to those who left the cult, is also normal. And watching these vegans scream and attack, not really caring about the persons health, makes my eyes even more open. These reactions and behaviour is not a sign of people in balance. For Zhanna, the raw vegan/fruit community shouts that she was sick before entering raw vegan, and this lifestyle has nothing to do with her passing. Some posted she took the vaccine, and that´s why she died. Looking at her photos, they are still not able to see that she was starved. They are blind to see that this lifestyle, especially entering fruitarianism, actually causes ED. She is not the first this has happened too, and wont be the last. R.I.P Zhanna, and condolences to her family.

This goes much deeper than a raw vegan diet. I've been vegan for 15 years and my brothers for 13, and my father for 28. I was raw vegan for a year. I was thin, but nothing like this. She was clearly not eating enough and had an eating disorder. It is not uncommon for anorexics to use diets to mask their eating disorder. Most anorexics are not vegan either.

if we discuss every person who dropped dead from eating animals, processed foods and modern diet, it will clog up all news platforms

This is very sad, it's too bad she couldn't get the help she needed to overcome this mental health issue. Anorexia is a mental disorder. The majority of people who die of Anorexia are not vegan. My condolences to her family 🙏

My aunt passed away a few years ago. I believe she had been trying different foods before her passing but ultimately, the cancer still got her and caused a lot of weight loss that she just couldn’t control. I don’t know that there is any proper way to eat to get rid of cancer, but I know that some claim that certain diets work better than others. Cancer is aggressive and it is brutal, and sometimes there really isn’t anything that you can do. RIP to this woman.

Had a 4 year old vegan student last year and he was so thin and frail. His parents are also vegan and thought raising him as a vegan would improve his quality of life since he is non-verbal autistic. I've never seen a healthy looking vegan.

I was vegan for 5 years, I never looked unhealthy, but the lack of essential proteins like glycine and methionine gave me some hard core psychotic episodes, many people don’t realize that lack of protein can cause psychosis, in fact it’s quite common to see influencers who are vegan that have really weird belief systems, like talking to aliens or like time travel, conspiracy stuff they love to talk about. It’s not impossible to get enough protein from a vegan diet, but it is very difficult unless all you do is meal plan perfectly and eat all day. Still recovering

Inevitable deficiencies on a plant only diet: Taurine, carnosine, carnitine, creatine, EPA, DHA, heme-iron, zinc, iodine, CoQ10, vitamin D3, vitamin B12, vitamin A (retinol). This does not include additional deficiencies caused by plant anti-nutrients such as oxalates, lectins, phytates, etc.

Very good video. I like the fact that you mentioned that the brain has been starved as well and the person can’t really mentally function to help themselves which lot of times people don’t think about.

I work for a major healthcare system in the US and they are pushing the heck out of a plant based only diet.

Wonder if that fruitarian Raw Bliss is still alive? He entered a similar stage with his diet induced sarcopenia, wandering around Asia while his family tried to talk him into returning to the U.S. for treatment... his vegan fruitarian contacts in Asia just watching him get closer & closer to death - telling him he was fine. Veganism is sick.

I just want to say that my mom, my sister, my grandma and my grandpa all died from cancer, diabetes, and heart attacks. None were raw vegan. I am raw for 12 years now. It saved my life. This girl clearly had health conditions NOT caused by her diet. I am friends with hundreds of raw vegans that do not have eating disorders and so not have bacterial infections and they are healthy, happy and thriving like me. Please do not be afraid of fruit and vegetables. Dead animal body parts are not for human consumption. They lead to dis-ease in the body.

Anyone can have bulemia or anorexia. A carnivore, an omnivore or a vegan. This is obviously a sad story but dont blame raw foods which one can thrive on if they eat them and dont throw them up.

There's so many vegetarian options that are rich in amino acids, this girl was just not living in balance, clearly there was something more to why she just starved herself, let's not forget some of the largest animals on earth are vegetarian, all of the great minds of history where vegetarian, or had fruits, Been vegan for 4 years, the most important thing is its not how much you eat its the quality of what you are eating to give the most nutrition apply this to your everyday choices and see how you feel wish people the best always do your own research !

Thank you for this video , please consider making a video for the correlation of diet and heathly brain function or at least the basics we need to know

Some are saying she had cancer, some say cholera, some say anorexia and some say veganism. I'll come back to story once it's all been sorted out.

She had an eating disorder, period. There are many on raw food (not me), that are thriving. Markus Rothkranz is a good example, on a raw food diet for 20+ years. You have to know what you are doing. Look him up. And clearly NOT starving either.

Clearly her death is not the result of raw veganism but instead anorexia.

Congrats, National Post, while maybe 85% of Americans die prematurely from the standard American diet, you managed to find one Russian lady who MIGHT have died from a raw vegan diet.👏

I disagree. I'm vegan and majority raw most of the time and I've been this way for over 12 years. It's funny how non vegans and especially non raw vegans want to tell you everything wrong with a raw vegan diet. If you want to know about a raw vegan diet look at the ones thriving on it for years. I mean decades. They look much much younger then any omnivore for their age.

I was blessed to be raised on a high raw vegan diet. My athletic abilities surpassed my peers, I did not get sick like my peers, I recovered more quickly from injury than my peers. It was only in adolescence when I began experimenting with animal products that my health began to decline. Soon I corrected myself, returned to the high raw vegan diet and gradually regained my health. Now in my forties, I have raised my three children high raw vegan and they experience the same benefits I did as a youth. For the past decade I have taught species specific nutrition to individuals around the world. I’ve witnessed children with autism become neurotypical. I’ve watched my terminally ill clients fully recover and go on to thrive. The list goes on. We are the only group of mammals who choose to heat food. Do you think this is beneficial to us humans biologically? Let’s not blame our species specific diet for this young woman’s death. Let’s widen our perspective and dig a little deeper.

I was raw vegan for several years and didn’t starve. This woman did dry fasting & wasn’t eating. It’s not raw veganism that killed her. RIP

I once went plant-based and I only lasted 3 days. I started getting slightly lightheaded. I felt irritated and weak. I saw my mother cooking ground beef with beans. I served myself a plate and the first spoonful that I swallowed almost immediately made the lightheadedness and everything else disappear. Humans truly do need animal fats and proteins. We thrive off it.

Hi Elliott, this is another heartbreaking story. She was gorgeous and fiery, and she would have been the perfect advocate for a spiritual cause of some sort; unfortunately, she picked an extremely difficult path, unless you are fully trained and experienced into it, and still you may still need to supplement with something else. Condolences to her and her family and friends. I myself went to the anorexic path early on in life, I would eat until I couldn't take anymore, then I would turn around and vomit everything out just placing two fingers in my throat. Didn't know why I was doing it...the moment my dad showed up and told me straight out to quit it, I realized that even if we never had a good father/daughter relationship going on, I understood at that moment that he actually cared about me. That was it for me, I quit cold turkey, right then and there. I am forever grateful for that waking up call! That's definitely not a healthy path to take on.

This is nothing to do with amino acids my friend, this is about not eating enough.

Absolutely correct. I see it in my own daughter now. She won't even consider she might be mistaken. Nothing you can do if they won't listen. So sad and painful to watch.

Don't blame her death on her vegan diet. She was obviously anorexic and as someone else said, most people who have anorexia aren't vegan

She was a fruitarian not a vegan, entirely different.

been there done that diet, earned myself over a decade of diarrhea (ibs). which has been getting better and more solid the longer i am carnivore and doing things for the gut, because carnivore helped, but didn't take me all the way to full health. i have issues that need sorting. going to try ttfd thiamine next weak. i think it might of been the thing I've been missing because sometimes I'd thrive on carnivore and sometimes i didn't and the pandemic robbed me of all the good affordable sources of food that i thrived on the most. the liver i can buy in south texas is so nasty now even my dog refuses to eat it. i also did a protocol that involved a b-50 complex to help grow gut flora and i was feeling pretty good on it but not the most recent b-complex that didn't have thiamine in it. my clean source of pork is gone too and thiamine is high in pork. i can't eat skittle pigs (pigs fed skittles and other mismanufactured american junk food complete with plastic wrappers ground into their feed) as those poorly fed pigs make my gut inflamed. looking forward to crossing this off my list of possibilities because the others are kinda expensive/time consuming to fix/test. (mold and mercury are my other guesses)

I haven't eaten a vegetable in almost one year and have never felt better.

I soooo appreciate you showing both sides of the argument. Thank you.

I have become frail at 19, the funny thing is I eat no processed foods, I eat omnivore and I am muscular and cardiovascularly healthy, but my joints are destroyed and got progressively worse, I believe this was because for as long as I've been working out, since 16 I started eating more nuts, seeds and veggies, at 18 I ramped up the consumption of these, especially almonds, walnuts and brazils I was getting a fair percentage of my calories from these alone, around 9 months ago I started getting more muscle strains when I never used to get those, and then, out of nowhere a serious "iniury" in hindsight probably oxalate buildup. In response to this injury I tried everything, but really what was stopping me from recovering was my diet, in excess of a gram of oxalate per day most days, I never stood a chance.

3:30 taurine is listed twice, because that's how important it is 😎

This is such a sad story, my sympathies to Zhanna's family. This lovely young lady thought she was doing the best things to be healthy. I also became vegan around 2001, thinking I would be healthier. I'd read & heard stories of living longer etc... After a while though I became thinner, more tired, moody and forgetful. Eventually, I started eating meat, fish, chicken, eggs and dairy products - what a difference!! I looked and felt better. We need fats (the right kind), we need enough protein & amino acids as Elliot points out. Having gut issues/IBS, digestion/absorption issues etc, we are more prone to nutritional deficiencies anyway and a vegan diet will exacerbate problems. Of course I didn't know that at the time until I studied nutrition & health. Thank you for posting this Elliot - you're doing an amazing job creating awareness and understanding in what can be a very difficult and complicating field to navigate.

Nothing wrong with being vegan, in fact it's the healthiest way to live. This lady died of cholera. She was anorexic. So, anyone trying to use veganism for her death is incorrect.

This is not from a diet. She was not eating enough period. This is anorexia With eating raw you have to eat a lot more than someone one a regular diet. I know people that have been raw vegans for 18+ years and are healthy. She had issues with food. So sorry of her passing. 😢

What drive me nuts is when people make fun of people who are saying they had to stop being vegan or vegetarian, or pass away due to being vegan/ vegetarian, when they quit or pass due to health problems from plant based. This is true scientific evidence that proves plant based diets cause human illnesses, diseases, and cancers over time. Vegan and vegetarian diets, any plant based diet, even the current food pyramid that is so plant based heavy, is nothing to joke and tease if someone quits. Nothing about eating plant heavy is right, so stop saying they did it wrong! You are seeing the truth of why it was designed by 7th Day Adventist Christians- and no- the “save planet” and “save animals” was a scare tactic to get you hooked so you would follow their religious non science based ideology. 7th Day Adventist Christians are not making these plant based diets to make humans healthy, and not to save any animals or the planet. It was to ruin human hormones! Look at human biology- hormones control all in your system and if they get ruined with plant based foods it damages all. Just to mention a few things that affects. Ladies start to see loss of period, PCOS, cysts, Fibroids in uterus and breast. Irregular periods, severe PMS symptoms before they loose their periods, depression, cancers in breast - uterus - and ovaries, hair loss, weight gain, and so much more that leads into all the illnesses, cancers, and diseases you are seeing today. Men get ED, low testosterone, hair loss, weight gain, depression to just name a few, and all the illnesses, diseases, and cancers like prostate cancer you see today. Teenagers-plants cause weight gain if over eat, muscle loss, pimples, depression, eating disorders, anxiety, leukemia and all other cancers, and all other health issues listed for ladies and men. Be a scientist before making a decision on your health. Do research! Men and ladies have thyroid issues so body temps ruined, hair loss, weight gain of visceral fats that lead to all problems you see today-and all illnesses, diseases, and cancers seen today. Eating disorders, can become emaciated, get osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, kidney failure, gall bladder damage and removal, brain fog, dementia, teeth rotten, sarcopenia, heart disease, organ failure in general, and so on. Did you know there are this obese humans called “invisible obese,” also called “Tofi” humans. And yes, plant cause all this! Go do your research! Learn from this. The plant toxins over time destroy the human body as you see here! Avoid them! Watch Dr. Chaffee and Dr. Sally Norton on plant toxins. Watch Belinda Fattke on truth behind heavy plant based diets.

Woah.....thanks to another comment I checked it out and SHE HAD STOMACH CANCER and went on the diet to heal it naturally. Apparently she lived longer than expected. 😮

I always recommend anything in moderation when it comes to diet and even exercise. Too much of anything can be harmful. Besides, eating a broad variety of different foods will improve gut microbiome and therefore an increase in immune function.

The major antinutrients found in plant-based foods are phytates, tannins, lectins, oxalates, etc. Antinutrients in vegetables, whole grains, legumes and nuts are a concern only when a person's diet is composed exclusively of uncooked plant foods. As long as one consumes a well-balanced and varied diet, these are not generally of any concern. In fact, scientists are discovering there are some surprising health benefits from antinutrients.

I have been watching all the videos on Thiamine deficiency on your channel and would like to give it a try. I did note that you mentioned that in diseases like Lyme, high doses of Thaiamine are contraindicated and would usually cause a worsening of the condition. Would this occur as well in a person with systemic lupus? I was diagnosed this year after bloodwork showed elevated anti dsdna antibodies and elevated anti nuclear antibodies. I also have fatigue, muscle and joint pain, and low grade fevers that come and go. The reason I want to try vitamin b1 Therapy is that I have developed peripheral neuropathy symptoms as well and am hoping this will help. I went full carnivore 6 weeks ago and am seeing some improvement, but not as much as I had hoped. I am 44 and mother to five amazing kids. This illness has negatively affected the most important areas of my life and I am desperately trying to get better. Any response would be greatly appreciated!

2013: Looks about 18 2020: Maybe in her early 20s 2021: Around late 20s early 30s 2023: She looks around 50 2023: She looks 80 What should have taken her 68 years of life to look like that only took 10 years. Sit and think about that math.

This has nothing to do with veganism just mental illness. The tragedy is that she never got the help she needed. A cheeseburger wasn't going to do the trick.

Love that you are bringing awareness to this. Also when you have been eating like this for years it is going to become so hard for your body to break down foods and people can end up a alembic even if mentally they do want the help sometimes the body does not recover and people don’t understand that. So sad to see this and I totally get how it can become an addicted feeling of being hungry and feeling empty. So sad!

I was raw vegan the whole 2013. The year when the most abundant energy and mental clarity was fantastic. So in my case, I can only be grateful, as all I had was benefits. Anorexia is a mental health, lest not forget that.

No one on a vegan diet starved to death. This lady was a mainly a fruitarian. She did not eat enough grains, seeds and nuts.

A vegan diet is very healthy; it is listed as one of the most nutritious diets you can eat. However, it is not for everyone, nor does it have to be followed... This lady had something else going on with her that caused her death. I have watched other videos and read the comments. They are saying she was a chronic practitioner of dry fasting (she practiced this excessively), plus people close to her said she was drinking her urine and using it as an enema. Please don't demonize veganism, in all things, let there be balance.

Meanwhile 40 years on the carnivore diet....

Id be curious to know how much protein is actually assimilated on a vegan diet if it takes 30% of protein to metabolise itself, and protein bioavaliability from plants is about 30%. Does this mean only isolates give you any protein at all?

there is no control for caloric intake. Maybe she was simply anorexic... Raw vegan is obviously not healthy, but this is not the point.

She didn't die because she was raw vegan, because there are thousands of raw vegans who are healthy and look great. She died due to a mental illness - Anorexia. She couldn't see that she needed help and that she was slowly dying. That's truly sad. Besides this way of eating isn't for everyone. I'm a vegan, not raw, and I lost 50 pounds and reversed Type II diabetes and high blood pressure because of this way of eating.

She wasn't a raw vegan advocate/influencer, she sadly had an eating disorder and used the Vegan label. May she rest in peace.

She was a beautiful girl. 🌷But she needed help!😢 Please don’t give nasty and hateful comments

I have been vegetarian since I was a child. What many people do not understand is that being vegan/vegetarian has nothing do do with fruits/vegetables. What it means is that you switch protein and fats to plant based ones and you need a lot, also carbs. If you want to be vegan, don't focus on vegetables. What Zhanna did was harmful. May she RIP.

I recently received a call from a friend, who told me that one of their exes, who was also my friend, recently died. I don't know what happened, but suspect their health was at diminished by orthorexia, following a raw vegan diet. I saw some troubling things on their social media, like the belief that craving animal protein was caused by parasites, and that spending at least a week in a closet, eating only fruit the friend they were staying with opened the door to provide, was a good thing, starving the parasites. I believe this person had a legitimately earned dislike and suspicion of Western medicine, having spent a lot of time hospitalized, and having painful metal implants in their body. I silently judged them for being anti-vaxx, not wanting to start conflict. And then, seeing what I perceived to be an eating disorder, I didn't know what to say to be a good friend, without provoking confirmation bias. I guess what it came to, is I thought, as an adult, they were pursuing their life as they wanted, and, as last I heard, they were in another country, I didn't know what could be done to get them professional help that they did not seek out themselves. They seemed intelligent, though maybe not especially good at evaluating sources, or critical thinking. I don't know if use of paychedelics caused them to be more "out there" or what, but what's happened can't now be changed. I hope the friend who called me isn't still committed to being raw vegan. I'm really not sure what to tell someone to try to help them without being insulting in coming out that I think they're misled.

There is way more going on here than eating raw vegan. I know 40 plus year raw vegans who are and have been healthy eating that way.

she can eat nut butters and cashew cheese and also tofu or lentil garbanzo . i lost hair when i was eating like a rabbit. mostly because i was a new nurse and didnt meal plan well. i ate a lot of salads. and then my hair and nails were brittle. i eat a little of everything in moderation now and i feel better too

not to dismiss Eliots points but there are some very healthy looking/functioning vegans and even some mostly raw vegans that i used to follow. like "fully raw kristina"

There’s a lot of people that are raw vegan and they live long, healthy lives, including the singer Maiya she is also a raw vegan What happened to her is different And they’re using her raw veganism to cover up what happened to her

This hurts my heart. Poor lady....If she had only listened to her mother who asked her to eat a healthier way.

Tried not eating meat when I was a teen for a year or so. I was so anemic, I would sleep all day. Still not a big meat eater but must take iron supplements. I cannot imagine eating like this without protein rice, beans and fish. This was really an ED masking as veganism

I also notice that people who are vegan or vegetarian are often having a anxiety disorder. I do not know that many people that are completely thriving on that kind of diet. Often they might still eat fish once in a while.

This is a really sad story. I just don´t like that you seem to have erased valuable comments, just bc they where a bit critical. Therefor I cancelled my subscription. If I have misunderstood the situation, pls reply. TIA

This is wrong... clearly more behind the scenes was happening , she most likely stopped even eating fruit , its not just classic case of being vegan Im a vegan , and im actually growing muscle and im not the only one

Hello EONutrition. You can make a video about a similar situation that happened to Mat Damon while preparing for the movie "Courage under fire "where he almost died. His diet was boiled chicken amd broccoli and when he could not loose weight faster he added 13 miles joging. A doctor saved his life. Please make a video people have to be aware of such stupid diets.

You don’t deteriorate from these diets ,it makes a huge difference on how much your consuming .

Im a vegetarian for 40 years.I eat dairy cheese,milk,butter and eggs.I eat beans, nuts,hummus. I doubt veganism is healthy nor is it easy to maintain.

If this is true... how can I be alive and healthy after 12 years of eating a 100% raw vegan diet? 🤔

The raw vegan diet isn't what killed her. She didn't eat enough daily calories, and she stopped drinking water. Ive been on a raw vegan diet for two years and never had a problem. You ahould have an experienced raw vegan on the show to educate you and your audience on this diet. This is how all humans used to eat before we bagan hunting for our food.

That’s ridiculous to say vegan diets are bad. I follow Dr. Furhman and he has raw and cooked foods. He also has beans, rice & potatoes recipes. You do not need animal products to be healthy!

But her raw food diet was very limited. She was not eating everything there is to eat raw. There's a problem with that.

Thanks for this video because i was planning on starting raw vegan. This is an eye opening

I used to be vegan, and when I started reading the Bible and I became born again Christian it helped me to see that eating meat was not bad but God allowed it. To be honest I felt great eating raw for a little while but I feel way more grounded eating a wholesome diet that includes, meat, fruits, veggies, légumes, nuts and seeds.

So very sad. Sympathy and condolences to her family.😢

so what about non vegans that die of starvation? is it cause of not enough lettuce? your reaching bro

I have been vegan before and had to stop too. Not because I was thin just unhealthy. Now I'm vegetarian and have been for years and I sure don't look like that. I weigh 142 at 5 foot 4 inches tall. I take a plant based multivitamin so I'm getting B12. I also watch for added vitamins I might need. I am fighting oxalates though. I'm hanging on as long as I can. I notice that the low oxalate diet list is different all over the internet. So I am staying away from spinach, nuts and beans as much as possible. This doesn't seem to help. I sure will not stop eating salt

I've been warning vegans for years about this. This is why so many vegans quit their diet and go carnivore

Many of my friends are strictly raw plant based. None of them look like this and theyve been eating raw for over 10 years plus, some older than you, so honestly, what youre saying about the body eating its own muscle is totally untrue. She obviously didnt know how to eat raw properly. One obviously needs to eat more than one slice. She was starving herself.

But that is NOT because she is vegan, she had a disease called anorexia, I am vegan and I am even overfed and I have NOT gotten sick in years

Very sad, I am semi vegan but I think we should all realize,our ancestors ate according to our area and and seasons we need to be mindful of our bodies. If you need me at then consume it but in moderation. This is very sad.

She seemed to look really bad starting in 2020...was she also in mental distress over Covid? Less people checking on her, travel restrictions, less a need to be out in public. While many gained weight, she seemed to go the opposite direction. I feel we need to be addressing mental health first and foremost here.

I know this is insane. But it's clear that she wasn't aware of her own deterioration.

Everything in moderation. Including moderation. A lesson has been lost for so many people. What a loss. And what a waste.

You said yourself over ten years vegan, then 4 years raw food and extremely restricted diet, and you show picture from those years. Nothing to do with veganism. You proved yourself wrong saying its not the eating disorder or mental health. Nothing to do with veganism.

Dr. Brooke Goldner, who wrote Goodbye Lupus, has been on a raw vegan diet for18 years, and her and her husband Thomas Tadlock, look amazing! I think this young model was anorexic and hiding behind raw veganism.

One question..How do animals get this amino acids?