BUT WHAT ABOUT THE VITAMINS?

(AND WHY THE PLANTS WILL NOT GIVE THEM TO YOU)

For those who are unfamiliar with the carnivorous lifestyle, this is often the question that comes up most often when they hear that there are those who do not eat anything from the plant kingdom. They have grown up with the myth that vitamins come from vegetables and fruits without any precondition for investigating whether the claim is true. For those of us who like to tickle the brain with new knowledge, it is interesting to go through the various claims and discover that each one is a fabrication, imagination, and deception that requires energy and dedication to maintain and which in some cases is diametrically opposed to what reality is, which is the case with vitamins.

Including plants in your diet will actually reduce the number of vitamins you get compared to if you eat the same amount (based on both weight and caloric value) excluding plants, for several reasons. Some have to do with the number of anti-nutrients (also called anti-grazing substances) and others have to do with the number of vitamins needed to metabolize the respective substances to be used for energy, homeostasis, and body maintenance when they are to be obtained from plants (glucose metabolism requires large amounts of vitamins and minerals, the same goes for reducing the amount of oxidative stress, in addition to the fact that the uptake of glucose happens via the same transport channels in the cell membrane that take up vitamin C so when these are available at the same time as glucose in sufficient quantity, the uptake of vitamin C will be reduced in favor of glucose) 1.

The number of plants one must eat, in the right combination, to get all the essential amino acids at the same time needed to synthesize protein also comes with the before mentioned anti-nutrients and fiber, which is a strain on the gut, leads to increased intestinal permeability that often will lead to systemic and chronic inflammation which in turn requires a lot of vitamins. The different detoxification complexes in the cells also depend on vitamins and minerals in addition to the amount of starch from the seeds one must eat if one is to get enough amino acids leads to increased production of free radicals, which require vitamins and minerals in the production of antioxidants, so if you want optimal utilization, less consumption, less strain on health, environment and land use, it makes no sense to include plants if you also know that by eating animal-sourced foods you can get all the vitamins you can get from plants plus those you can only get from meat or other animal sources (such as eggs, fish and shellfish).

We know in the field of nutrition that it is extremely rare that 1 + 1 = 2. Most often, the mathematics of reality is either 1 + 1 = 1 or -1. The example I often use is the case of zinc.

Here one can see how 1 + 1 = 1 (1 = representative of "quantity" / "property" / "quality"), even -1, when one combines oysters with phytic acid-containing seeds which inhibit the uptake of zinc, among other things.

Some of the anti-nutrients are also protein synthesis inhibitors (for example protease inhibitors) which prevent one from synthesizing protein even with the essential amino acids present. This means that one must consume much more plants measured in both volumes, weight, crude protein, and nutrients in order to be able to utilize the same amount of amino acids, minerals, and nutrients as compared with meat.

If one cares about and knows about nature/environmental considerations, one knows that our use of land poses a threat to biological diversity, and the greater biodiversity an area can offer, the more opportunities for evolutionary adaptation to new living conditions such as climate change.

Below is a small table showing the amount and type of anti-nutrients from which food sources.

Hentet fra; "Antinutrients in Plant-based Foods: A Review" DOI: 10.2174/1874070701913010068

This is by no means a full list. In fact, the amount and diversity of these self-protection mechanisms in plants are not only mind-boggling but also far beyond our current understanding, and of course if one understands that one actually needs a different measuring device than what one consists of oneself to get acquainted with a signaling system that uses other types of signals to signal the same it becomes obvious why those who use only their own empathic abilities fail to empathize with plants.

Some of the protective chemicals do not exist in their toxic form in the plant (the substances are kept separate in the cells) but are synthesized only after chewing and mixing in the mouth, as is the case with Sulphurophane which is synthesized by the enzyme Myrosinase reacting with Glucoraphanin in the mouth after chewing. Sulphurophane is a cytotoxic drug that, like all types of cytotoxins, is lethal to all cells, but since cancer cells have poorer functioning detoxification mechanisms, they die both more easily and faster than "healthy" cells, which has led to the reductionist associative logic; 1; cancer is not healthy, 2; cytotoxic chemicals kills cancer cells, ergo; chemotherapy is healthy.

As mentioned earlier, all food comes in packages with different chemicals, in context, where the respective chemicals exist in conditions that change with every form of influence and manipulation. You will often see overviews that show the amounts of vitamins and/or minerals in a fruit or vegetable without including which vitamins and/or minerals are required in the metabolism of the various substances that come with these vitamins and/or minerals. They also do not include the anti-nutrients that prevent their uptake or utilization.

The truth is that the food with the largest amount of vitamins, minerals, and trace elements is meat and that certain sugar bombs from the rainforest without comparable amounts of nutrients are called "superfoods" can refer only to a form of ego-focused and association-based self-informatics.

1:= "Glucose Modulates Vitamin C Transport in Adult Human Small Intestinal Brush Border Membrane Vesicles" C. Malo, J. X. Wilson