JJ Virgin argues plant-based diets cause nutrient deficiencies in vitamin B12, omega-3s, creatine, carnitine, taurine, vitamin D3, and K2 without heavy supplementation. She says an omnivorous diet combining plants and animal products is the sustainable long-term approach.
What do you think about the plant-based diet as a whole? I think it's propaganda. Now, short term, there can be some great benefits, but long term, I think we need to eat a lot of plants and we need to eat animals. Animals and plants. It's a great— like, I'm very much on the omnivore train, but this idea of a diet where you're going to be deficient in B12, you're going to be deficient in omega-3s, you're going to be deficient in creatine, you're going to be deficient in carnitine and taurine, you'll be deficient in all these things because D3, K2— unless you're getting some really good mushrooms for the D3, you know, you're going to be deficient in these things. Then what? We need all these things, and there's time when a carnivore diet could be very gut healing, and there's a time where a plant-based diet might be really therapeutic, but I don't think either of those should be the thing that we do for the long haul.
