Are You a Good Converter or a Bad Converter?

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There's a well-defined gene, but not a well- defined SNP. We don't have the ability to really rule out that you're a bad converter based on any of those SNPs. It's like it's an insurance policy to get the basic requirement of vitamin A from animal foods and then eat all the red, orange, yellow, and green vegetables that you want. Most vegetarians and vegans are three times more likely to have riboflavin deficiency compared to omnivores.

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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