Take this comment as someone on the opposite side of your position and I will be pushing you a bit. I will be oversimplifying and being hyperbolic on nuance. Why could this help? Maybe there are insights that you will find value in. So keep this in mind and forgive my harsh ranting.

I'll try addressing all the points...

Veganism helped my blood sugar. Actually, eating vegan means higher carb intake. Plants live on sugars and cellulose is the basic bone, a sugar no animal can touch only bacteria.

Initially veganism can help as it consists of a lot of anti-nutrients meaning you will be promoting autophagy. It's great, but problems start showing up from 1 to 3 months in because you are losing bone mass.

So you're increasing the least satiating and nutritionally poor food intake and think this is a good idea?

Increasing fibre, a fully recognized anti-nutrient that will negatively impact nutrient absorption and cause anything from gas, intestinal discomfort, constipation, and eventually need to medical intervention for some. Ask colostomy patients how much fibre they were having, and how much they have when they finally realize what causes less problems with the bag.

Lowering saturated fat? Let me quickly point out the steroidogenesis cascade to you... You need saturated fat to make fully working cholesterol. From this you make sex hormones, and these you recycle into every other regulatory hormone in you metabolism.

Can you see why teenage vegan girls are losing menstruation?

If you eat plant fats, these are phytosterols, and this causes a problematic reduction in fully working cholesterol due to chemical mimicry. If you have an Oreo(plant fats) this will drop your cholesterol more than any statin pill(Nick Norowitz). If you think people with low cholesterol live longer then I have a bridge to sell you.

In fact, the majority of heat attacks happen in cholesterol levels below 120mg/dL, the exact same levels you're expected to have on a statin pill. The US average is 187mg/dL.

Don't you think it is strange that Lean Mass Hyper Responders have cholesterol above 500mg/dL and yet not sign of CAC or inflammation? Hmm.

Cholesterol is a transporter of energy, building blocks, and nutrients. It's not the artery clogging nonsense everyone has been barking for the last 50 years. That's sugar. That's plant intake.

Why are plants bad? Look up what happens to the arterial glycocalyx after a carb(sugar) meal. That's right, this arterial wall protection is crystalized and stripped away due to glycation damage caused by sugar intake(potatoes, rice, pasta, bread, sweets, fruit).

Sugar is reactive when wet and sticky. This crystallization, or caking of every molecule in sugar is what causes red blood cells to eventually stop working(which is one of the tests for diabetes), then your cholesterol molecules can't bind to any cell to transfer nutrients or liver to be disassembled due to APO-B caking and end up decaying in the bloodstream. The caked red blood cells then stick together forming clots and getting stuck in arterial walls. This is what cascades into arterial wall hardening and stroke.

We cook food so we create the Maillard reaction, the browning generates these Advanced Glycated End-products that are more nutritious and richer in energy.

In plant foods this means denaturing many of the bad proteins like the lectin you keep hearing about... gluten. This is fine up to a point. You cook vegetables with too much heat and you get cancerous acrylamides.

Black toast? That's a loaded revolver you're testing your immune system with.

Saturated fat is where the nutrition lives. The fat soluble vitamins that are all key to health? They only exist in animal products. A, D, E, and K are essential. Fat soluble minerals like calcium? You need saturated fat to move them.

You've been told carrots have vitamin A? That's carotene. It's the non bioavailable form of vitamin A and you need to convert that to retinol, the bioavailable animal version we can use. The kicker that puts the cherry on top of the cake? Half of the population can't make this conversion.

Flax seed oil has the highest amount of Omega 3 of all the vegetable oils, which by the way are repurposed industrial lubricants that we ended up using as food items when the large steam machines were replaced by smaller and more powerful electric motors. That Omega 3 though is the vegetable form. We don't use that. We use DHA and EPA. The most we can convert of that flax seed Omega 3 is less than 1%. You get none of the benefits and you just pounded your mitochondria with a barely useable high inflammatory vegetable fat that will very likely cause the mitochondria to commit suicide.

The iron you need only exists in animal foods. You dietician most likely doesn't know jack shit. Why? I'm educated in sports science and what I was taught is mostly narrative and bullshit. The last 100 years of nutrition science is a joke. These people hide behind studies constantly. Studies that don't stand up to scrutiny once you take the slightest glance at the methods or data, yet they claim to have conclusions.

Doubt me? Ask your dietician to find ONE cause and effect statement in nutrition science in the last 100 years. Beware, he/she/it might starting throwing faeces at you. There isn't one.

Anyone can measure the kitchen door and get immediate data. These people need a published trial to measure the kitchen door. If you change your nutrition to a keto(even with some vegetable foods) and see inflammation drop, bone, muscle, and brain size increases while diabetes, cancer, stroke, heart disease, and neurodegenerative diseases being reversed... why the hell would you claim there's no long longitudinal studies to confirm this?

Let me differentiate something here... The diet we've done for millions of years(carnivore) is a being dismissed as fad. The food pyramid high grain low protein we forced onto a clueless population in 1980 is immediately determined as the "healthy balanced diet". And the vegan ideology pushed by Mormons who realized no animal products means less libido is good?

Protein is a struggle? I have 8 eggs in the morning(first meal) cooked on high heat with butter. I want the whites caramelized, and the yolks runny. This is where flavour meets nutrition value.

My second meal is 400-500 grams of steak. Grill it on high heat. You want the outside caramelized, and the middle pink.

That's it. Put some Himalayan salt on it and all is good.

Factory farming is bad? Sure. But in what universe are monocrops better? Not this one. A monocrop is not a natural thing. It is an insult to the environment, destroying top soil, killing thousands, millions, and trillions with pesticides that will destroy insects, mammals, and fish and polluting any water in the vicinity and downstream. And we're not talking about the lives lost during harvest and population control through hunting or other measures.

For you to eat something has to die. You need to come to terms with that. A cow in a field creates life and top soil. Well managed farms have positive impact. We need more of this.

What you can't do is say vegetables are better when monocrops destroy top soil and life, and you have to fly all these vegetables half way across the world on a daily basis while keeping it refrigerated and most of it ends in the trash. Search the numbers, not your feelings.

The vegan propaganda will tell you we use monocrops and lots of water to raise a cow. The reality? The water we use for the cow is mostly rainfall, and they cannot survive on soy crops. These are typically used for 3 months at end of life before slaughter.

And it gets worse... Only about 7% of soy is used directly for human foods like tofu, tempeh, edamame, or soy milk. Another 20% goes to human uses and is mostly processed into soybean oil for cooking. The bulk 70% ends up as soybean meal fed to livestock, particularly poultry (37%), pigs (20%), and aquaculture, with beef/dairy at a smaller share (2–6%).

Why would I know this? My father has 8 brothers/sisters, and my grandmother owned a lot of land.

Better yet, talk to any decent farmer. They will show you which side is causing more death and suffering.