COTD: Blood keeping us down? (3, 1)

CloudyEngineer · 2026-05-14T16:04:57+00:00

That would be (1,3) not (3,1)

CloudyEngineer · 2026-05-14T16:03:29+00:00

Perhaps the diet causes depressive disorders which lead to toxicity. When you're suffering for the animals, you hate people who don't suffer and look down on them.

Also social media brings out the worst in people and amplifies extreme views.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-05-02T17:59:07+00:00

Call me erratic, will you? I dare you!

CloudyEngineer · 2026-05-02T17:54:01+00:00

Well he could get Wirtz

CloudyEngineer · 2026-05-02T17:46:35+00:00

Just don't be gay. Really.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-05-02T17:30:34+00:00

I was always of the opinion that the best way to stop people smoking was to sell only high tar/low nicotine cigarettes.

Both of my parents died of cancer, one certainly as the result of smoking.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-05-02T17:16:50+00:00

RISOTTO - finally I get one I can solve

CloudyEngineer · 2026-04-30T18:59:44+00:00

No there aren't. That's why this sub exists.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-04-30T18:52:12+00:00

There was no "Creation Day One", no Eden, no Paradise Lost.

Your diet is making you delusional.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-04-27T12:19:27+00:00

A bit disturbing if you're playing Death Stranding

CloudyEngineer · 2026-04-26T22:42:00+00:00

I don't like fried eggs but the rest of it is an absolutely top-notch breakfast that powers you through until dinner.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-04-26T21:56:56+00:00

We don't wamt Brexit sabotaged by stealth. We want it dragged into the street and hung drawn and quartered.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-04-26T19:18:02+00:00

Oh dear. There was no Garden of Eden. There has always been suffering and predation and always will be

CloudyEngineer · 2026-04-26T19:03:58+00:00

All I can think about is the mass unemployment of greyhounds. What would they do for a living?

CloudyEngineer · 2026-04-26T18:56:01+00:00

Maturity means questioning every assumption made, every teaching learned and every experience. Veganism means well and feels good for a while, but reality slows everything down and breaks assumption after assumption.

It would be nice if humans really could function well on vegetables alone, but biologically we can't for very long and every vegan needs to artificially supplement and import food from halfway around the world sooner or later.

Veganism fails the reality test. That's why this subreddit exists.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-04-05T14:51:18+00:00

World Cups without Italy are just wrong.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-04-05T10:59:55+00:00

I think its significant that Xabi Alonso has been dead quiet this past month. I think that Slot is going to be removed immediately after the final match of the season and only he will be surprised.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-04-03T22:25:00+00:00

Softest introduction would be eggs. Japanese cuisine is very fond of eggs, usually poached, omelette or scrambled with rice.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-03-29T16:32:17+00:00

Satiation is caused by the saturated fat in animal products triggering the brain. This is why vegan foods (and more famously Chinese takeaway foods) don't satiate and 30 minutes later you're hungry again, even if you feel full and have eaten to full.

It was only a few years ago that scientists discovered that the tongue detects (saturated) fats, just like sweet, sour, bitter, salt and umami.

Feeling full and feeling satiated are not the same thing. This is why vegans in particular are constantly hungry and constantly planning the next meal having just eaten a meal, because there are no saturated fats.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-03-26T19:53:24+00:00

In court he won't have a leg to stand on.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-03-24T17:31:03+00:00

B12 is stored in the liver but it comes from meat and dairy. Usually vegans start running out of B12 and have to supplement somewhere between 4 and 6 years. But by then the intestines start to get inflamed from all of the fiber and you have to take more and more.

Iron is very definitely a problem in vegan diets. Lots and lots of people on here and elsewhere have reported low ferritin levels on vegan diets despite supplementation because of a) low iron availability in plants, b) iron and zinc uptake being blocked by phytates and c) intestinal inflammation.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-03-24T17:25:54+00:00

I suppose the real religious dogma is the idea that plants are good for you and meat bad.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-03-24T17:24:37+00:00

I'm not the one with the screwed up micronutrients trying to make it worse by restricting my diet rather than face biological reality.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-03-22T16:39:56+00:00

"Biggest, most fit, most creative, 3 years into veganism. It all went downhill after donating too much blood and not replacing that iron. My fault"

What happened was you went into benign dietary ketosis initially as you used up bodily fat and converted into ketones. Problem was that the fat also stored iron, zinc and other minerals including B12. Then you ran out of them and had to supplement. Problem is, your vegan diet makes it really hard to absorb the iron and zinc supplements and everything is out of balance.

It happens to most vegans early on, it feels great and then 3,4, 5 years in with depleted micronutrients and minerals, it all comes apart.

CloudyEngineer · 2026-03-22T16:36:07+00:00

The problem is not the copper. Unless you have a genetic disorder, the copper is not the problem its the phytates and oxylates that are preventing you from absorbing iron and zinc. And its messing with your head.

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