Sat, Nov-18-17, 05:55
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Vegan turned Nazi: food connection?
I am being perfectly serious.
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The Making of an American Nazi
How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist—and how might he be stopped?
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I think it's perfectly logical to ask how the notable nutritional deficiencies of the vegan diet might affect someone's brain. The article describes hate speech and threats, so you have been warned.
But his origins were very different:
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In high school, Anglin was a vegan and took progressive stances on various issues. ...
Anglin was one of only two vegans at Linworth, and before long he began dating the other, a brunette named Alison in the class ahead of him, whom he wooed by baking vegan cookies. She was a popular girl who introduced him to a diverse and edgy clique of kids. To them, Anglin seemed sweet and funny, if a little too eager to latch on to causes. Alison was deeply into animal rights. Suddenly, he was too.
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This excellent article details how modern diets can lack important brain nutrients. And I am reminded of all the people we have seen on this site, sharing how their moods, even their mental conditions, improved on low carb.
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All these vitamins were consumed in very high levels in primitive diets. Today, due to disastrous dietary advice, most people avoid the dietary sources of these critical nutrients—egg yolks, butter, organ meats, meat fats, goose and chicken liver, cod liver oil, fish eggs and oily fish, and some fermented foods like sauerkraut.
Violent Behavior: A Solution in Plain Sight
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But what came to mind specifically was B vitamins, especially B12, which is notoriously difficult to get without animal products, leading to vegan claims that a) that's a lie or b) supplementation is FINE.
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Vitamin B12 deficiency has a well-known correlation with mental disorders, including irrational anger. A higher incidence of low B12 is found in mental patients than in the general population. Deficiencies cause mental symptoms ranging from poor concentration, depression and severe agitation to hallucinations. Deficiencies are caused by pernicious anemia, an autoimmune condition; they are also found in vegetarians and vegans, those with low animal protein intake, and individuals with leaky gut. Drugs including anesthetics can deplete vitamin B12.
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The ironic thing about the vegan diet is that, without paying careful attention and supplementing, it is disastrous, and even with this kind of granular attention, there's problems that won't happen for a while... until the body's stores of such vitamins are depleted.
B12 deficiency is known for creating a particular combination of irrational thinking and a fanatical devotion to such thinking.
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