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There’s plenty of other factors that need to be considered. There will be significant differences in iron levels, b12, calcium, vitamin d, etc.
If you’re vegetarian/vegan, you absolutely need to monitor multiple other levels and take the appropriate supplements. Pretending otherwise is really dangerous.
The study itself makes none of the claims you're rallying against.
It looks like the OP started with a title that was misleading and it has been corrected so now your post looks out of place.
You can get all of that just fine on a veg diet without artificial supplementation. Just eat a fucking vegetable dude.
Not b12. Vegans have to supplement with b12.
Mushrooms and nutritional yeast.
Please don't spread misinformation. That's a path to someone developing neurological disease.
What misinformation?
Vegan sources of vitamin B12 include fortified plant-based milks, fortified cereals, nutritional yeast, and certain types of algae, several types of mushrooms, most meat and dairy replacements are fortified with b12.
And a single energy drink contains 5x or more the daily dose of b12.
So you could buy a bunch of processed crap with vitamins in it and hope you get enough.
...Or you could just take the vitamins.
I recommended just taking vegan b12 every day. It's a requirement and very small sacrifice to make for living a better life without having to consume animal parts
Plenty of swole guys are vegetarian. Not Vegan. The difference is vegetarians don't tell everyone.
Studies show 92% of meat eaters are nutrient deficient in at least one vitamin or mineral.
The rate for vegans is 30%
Worry about yourself.