The Dangers of Veganism Debunked 

After a heart attack and 2 bouts of cancer I went Vegan. I have never felt better and really enjoy the whole food plant based diet! Better late than never! I’m 74

People like to read negative things about veganism…it makes them feel better about their poor food and ethical choices.

Actually after I stopped eating plant based after eating wfpb for many many years, my health went south. I only started eating a very moderate amount of dairy and sometimes sugar. My bloodpressure is extremely high suddenly. I’m definitely going back to plant based now. Plantbased food is a life saver. For literally everyone.

I can't believe the rabidly conservative newspaper would run such an unbalanced article on veganism.

Back when I was in my 50's I was obese, had terrible numbers and Diabetes, and basically was a professional couch potato. At 58, I switched to a Vegan diet, started losing weight and am now 120 pounds less. At 72, the Diabetes is long gone, all my numbers are in the healthy range, I take no pills except a B12, and I am a regular visitor to the gym. Never felt better!

As with any diet you need to be careful and do it responsibly. I remember one time I read a news article about some who had to be hospitalized for deficiencies on a vegan diet. It turns out the person was *only* eating potato chips or something like that. Some vegan diet! My one advice to people about the vegan diet is to eat a wide variety of nutritious whole foods, but this applies to all diets!

The Telegraph is the paper of choice for livestock farmers, gamekeepers, and other industries that are threatened by the rise of a compassionate lifestyle.

I live in the deep south, and I rarely tell people I'm vegan because they tend to get defensive and even hostile. I'll be vegan till the end of my days, though, for all the reasons.

The Telegraph, being wrong about everything every day so that the rest of us don't have to be.

I'm chubby. My life before veganism: eAt A dAmN vEgEtAbLe! After going vegan: nOt LiKe ThAt!

Dr. Greger did a thorough review of the study on stroke risk and showed that the vegans used for the study even had higher BMI, but because they were healthier they "corrected" the data for their better health condition. They actually had a lower rate, but the "correction" made it look higher in the results.

The dangers of being healthy. It’s like saying, I’m not gonna ride a mountain bike because I might get hurt--as opposed to your health significantly increasing. On the other hand: the dangers of being lonely.

it's just difficult to understand why meat eaters are so fixated on vegans - especially since the adverse effects of eating meat has been well documented for decades ..

It’s really tiresome especially as a young woman watching so many people propped up as examples of beauty and health mask their disordered eating under the guise of veganism. Not only is it morally questionable in regard to the very real and serious movement it undermines. It also doesn’t leave room for accountability in recovery. It leads to a gateway of shedding one disordered eating pattern for another and discrediting something that is so positive for so many others who aren’t eating restrictively, potentially discouraging new comers and leaving a terrible example of how to care for oneself the planet, and animals in its wake. There is a self centeredness in this framing of veganism that people consistently refuse to acknowledge.

The meat-eating majority giving us another classic example of normal human behavior: We believe what we want to believe and then we rationalize it. There are then two kinds of science: one that rationalizes and one that tries without bias to search for truth...the latter is true science...Thanks for being on the side of true science Mic!

Meat, dairy, feed and subsequent chemicals account for at least 75% of Big Ag's profits. What you're seeing is hundreds of million$ spent buying off media and "influencers". The first thing that should be done: A law that influencers must disclose when they are being paid to produce content taking a certain stance (i.e. advertising disguised as word of mouth). Lobbyists are sending influencers NDAs and then paying them to produce content. Political groups are also doing this. Its rampant and very destructive.

I hate the way there’s this all or nothing mentality about veganism with celebrities. It’s like, you could have a piece of fish once and a while and still eat vegan food the rest of the time, without just abandoning it completely.

Ohhhh I read this hit piece on Veganism 😅 and they call themselves journalists😂

I have not seen one study showing benefits of meat over plants for ANYTHING, but lots the other way round.

I wonder if some of these "one piece of fish cured me" stories are about iodine. Natural diet people probably avoid both multivitamins with iodine and iodized salt.

They are obsessed with vegans

13:54 that is literally hilarious that there's all these good things and improved health outcomes for vegans in the study they cited, then they take the one tiny negative thing and ignore every positive thing. It's so ridiculous and so biased.

vegan for 22 years, on the brink of death pray for me 🤣

"As long as..." towards the end of the video is good to hear. More power to the mic - and research and analysis efforts - of Mic. Well done, and keep doing it: refuting the claims of such articles.

So happy to hear your diet choice is kicking Cancer in its rotten teeth.😊 Keep on and spread the word.

Great video Mic! It's amazing how biased a lot of the world is.

This guy released the video during the Presidential debate. Zero f$&@s to give. I admire this.

12:20 I’ve heard this a few times i don’t think it’s placebo - I would say it’s the brain chemical dopamine response to a high calorie source. It’s like you get a similar high from white sugar but that’s more like a drug than an indication that it’s the right nutritional choice. In fact in the west we have the problem where people eat for the high and not for nutrition and it’s led to a wealth of health problems.

Decided after 8 years of veganism to get my (Male, 47) blood work done. Just out of interest. Went for a check up at the doctor's and was told my heart rate is 61, BP 120 over 80, and my B12, iron, and every other thing they checked for were absolutely bang on the middle of range.

I was born and raised in Iceland so when I heard the actress say that on Mr. Colberts show I could kinda understand why she felt persuaded. However as you said she was most likely just in chronic calorie deficit which she would mend with those "health bars". Not sustainable. Countless times on RU-vid we have seen vegan - especially vegans that have adapted the raw vegan diet - stop on the diet due to the simple fact that calorie deficit on that magnitude is not sustainable - not to mention the care to details such as the supplements. Adressing the supplements is something carnivore community is very keen to do - failing to realise the exceptional industrial complex that the beef industry and animal industry as a whole has developped into. The sad thing of all this is - that people are no longer able to eat a balance diet and thus the industry themselves are adding all this stuff to the animals feed. Not to mention the enourmos amount of antibiotics used on animals each and every day. Nobody likes being told what to eat. I get that. But nobody deserves living a whole life in a denial created solely by a industry of profit. Cheers.

Depression in vegans is because living in this carnist world when we have empathy is absolutely devastating. Arguing with people that animal cruelty,reproductive slavery of female animals and their murder is wrong is exhausting. People’s hearts are black and it’s so much worse when there the people you love

I'm vegan 23 years this month; I guess I'm supposed to be dead or very ill, but the doctors tell me to "Just keep doing whatever you're doing!" Very confused.

Thank You for all Mic !!! Very good as allways !!!

57g protein target per day in Cronometer? Fix your macro targets! I'm eating twice of that easily on a vegan diet.

I eat whole food plant based. Lately, I have been entering what I eat in Cronometer and I can't get my protein intake down to what Dr. Greger recommends. I am always about double the amount of protein I should be eating. The individual amino acids are always way above what I need as well, some up to 300%.

Thanks!

As a brit I feel I should apologise for the vacuousness of our media outlets, particularly right-wing ones like the Telegraph.

Well said (and researched) Here in the UK, the Telegraph has a reputation for being reactionary. Keep up the good work 🙏🏼

Great vid as always Mic! Tell them! 5 years vegan, best decision I ever made 💚

Got rid of my arthritus going Vegan and never looked back. You know a Tory government or Republican movement has got so bad when even the right wing press give up for risk of loosing readers.

👍 Whole food plant based for the environment and health; vegan for the victims! *Ask your city government to sign the Plant Based Treaty!* 🖖

❤ I’m glad you exist and dispel BS ✨

I find it funny that it claimed that calcium absorption from dairy is better than from plants. If that is so, why do the countries with the highest dairy intake also have the highest rates of osteoporosis. If calcium is your goal, dairy aint your magic bullet.

To be fair, when Anne Hathaway ate that “oatmeal paste,” it was when she was deliberately losing weight for her role in, “Les Miserables.” She went on a starvation diet in preparation for that role, eating only a couple hundred calories per day. When she’s referenced that diet in interviews, I don’t believe she’s ever termed it a vegan diet, but rather a starvation diet. She’s also said that it had a profoundly negative effect - not just on her physical health, but also on her mental health. I didn’t even know she had been vegan at one point.

Masterful debunking! (as always!!) Such a shame journalists aren't held to any sort of standard and such articles can still be published, especially when (for the environment) it's more imperative than ever that we go plant-based. (And needless to say, it's more important than ever for the poor animals that we all go vegan 😢)

I've been eating WFPB for 5 years now, and I've had steak, chicken, lobster, salmon, eggs, each one-time occasions. I felt no different after each time. There wasn't any moment of enlightenment as if I had some deficiency. And thankfully I don't have any deficiency, being WFPB for 5 years ✌️🥦

Another great video mic. Articulate and efficient as usual. Your videos feel so much shorter than they are . Thank you for your service.

very good as usual. thank you

When the meat industry buys newspaper space...

Vegan is the new vegetarian.

Algae supplments are super expensive. As a vegan, I hate how vegan influencers and activists completely gloss over this inconvienent fact. I might start eating bivalves to get my EPA/DHA fix

Thanks Mikey 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🫰🏻🫰🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

Love it Mic!!!

This is The Tory-graph we're talking about. The propaganda publication of "The Elves of *Tufton Street*". 😔 Edit: "We're not*designed* to be Vegan." Surely he means*adapted*. Red flag right there. 😶

I like the way Mic chuckles in amusement of the naysayers

Anecdote here: I just had a yearly health check at my 38s and my doctor said the most biased analysis of the results "Your health is so good considering you're vegan"

Thank you for not using AI.

Yeah, i refuse to filter my nutrients through animals & their suffering.

Hey Mic - Don’t use AI if you care about your carbon footprint. Keep up the good work.

1:19 LMAO XD

Unsurprisingly corpse eaters still live in the 90s.

All of this orchestrated propaganda is no coincidence. There are powerful lobbies in the animal farming sector.

Hey Mike, greetings from Colombia, I've been watching your content for years now, thank you for the consistently well researched videos, keep up the good work lad

Thanks for always showing the research!

Vegan for 5 years now and I just had my bloods done... High b12 and testosterone, everything in range but HDL = 97 when recommended is >100. Really happy with the results overall.

Excellent response to a crappy piece of journalism. Bizarrely it was interrupted at one point by an advert for functional nutrition (including bloody meats). Just subscribed, great channel. 👍

Thank you Mic!

Why has it become yet another way to make people fight one another?

Thanks for continuing to do this Mic!

If it looks sick, If it sounds sick... It's probably sick !

I still don’t understand why people are so uptight about what other people eat? We are working on our longevity as well as the best health as we can. Thanks for sharing this info with people! I am looking forward to seeing my kids, grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow up. Working towards 104 :-) #eatmoreplants

They get mad at subscribe, bunch of crybabies!

Anecdotally vegans have more depression because we have to live with hearing all the terrible arguments, excuses, and lies from meat eaters.

I wish I understood why so many people hate vegans. It makes no sense to be mad at someone else for what they do that has no negative effect on other living beings. Like how the fuck can a person be mad at that

While Brian eats a vegan diet, several supplements he takes aren't vegan. He takes a collagen supplement that is derived from eggshells for example. Hence, I wouldn't call him vegan, but rather plant-based.

The telegraph re-enactment 😂

Nice job, Mike. Keep up the great work!

Yeah man, don't use that AI crap. I am unsubscribing on principle from channels that are overusing it. The stupid services are so ridiculously energy-intensive and the output does not justify it, it's like driving an Escalade half a block to buy some Lisa Frank stickers.

I doubt that these are designed to garner clicks. Rather they are likely paid hit pieces, courtesy of animal farming interests. There are PR people who have very cozy relationships with journalists and editors. I also doubt the Telegraph is required to disclose if someone actually paid to have this article published.

Thank you 💚

Epic as always 💚🌱

If you've been in undereating and then eat something calorically and/or nutritionally dense, you'll definitely feel your brain "rebooting", I guarantee that. Stories like "one piece of fish cured me" make me laugh though. I was fully vegan for over 5 years, but then decided to introduce occasional animal products while in recovery from an eating disorder. Baked salmon was one of the meals I chose to eat. Was it tasty? Yes, but it did not magically cure me of every ill and I did not expect it to.

I love a good debunk video. ❤

LOL wow you really didn’t come to play games 👏👏👏

Thank you for the hard work

Vegans do eat less protein than non-vegans…which is a big reason why vegans are healthier. Lower protein intake correlates with increased longevity.

Thanks to meat eaters, vegans are getting publicity all the time, which is great. The only thing they should remember is to change the veganism myths & talk about the truths.

The Telegraph aka the Torygraph is a stupid newspaper for people who think they are smart.

Personally the only "dangers" I am facing are: eating enough protein to get about 33grams per meal and getting adequate grams of calcium throughout the day. I am using some processed foods. I am supplementing. But my body is showing signs of pre-osteoporosis. As an aging person, I am recommended to get 1 gm of protein for pound of body weight. This is challenging! But am I going to start eating meat and drinking dairy milk? No. Why not? Because it is difficult to get these amounts of these nutrients regardless of what you consume. And veganism/whole foods plant based allows for the most variety (which is a good thing!) Thank gawd for Cronometer!

ALL PRAISE THE SEED

Great video Mic!

Great video. Thanks!

Do we get enough omega 3 with only flax seeds, chia seeds and walnuts? It seems its so little epa/dha in all vegan omega 3 supplements.

Comical my B12 more than doubled when I gave the meat and dairy

15 yes ago I thought i needed fish bc of bad nutrition info. I tested it and went a while without it and had it and noticed no energy difference at all (salmon) and went vegan. Sorry salmon and tuna.

Great video!!!🥦🥦🥦

tank u mic❤

The Idaho accent really comes out when you say rather lol. Sounds so strange to my New Englander ears

I try to be a whole food vegan but I've known some 'junk food vegans.' Beer and chips, fake meat and french fries, fry everything! I'm not being a purist but there seems to be too many vegan plates that lack greens and fruit. We still have work to do in vegan messaging

Perhaps we can start calling it "Corn picking" or "Nut picking" instead of "Cherry picking" 🤔