Is Veganism the Best Way to Fill Those Goals?

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Some people in the vegan community will say that by merely taking the B12 supplement because it's the one essential, uh, nutrient that we know that we can't get from plants. But what I'm taking away is that trying to basically play this cat and mouse game of various independent nutrients is an exercise in futility. For example, you could get all your nutrients if you just ate shellfish and like you can get way more of many of these nutrients from oysters than red meat.

Chris Masterjohn earned his PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut in 2012. He served as a postdoctoral research associate in the Comparative Biosciences department of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From August 2014 to December 2016, he served as Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York.

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