Ultimately, these findings point to new avenues of research that could increase microbiome-informed understanding of human health and hint at potential biomedical applications in which specialized bacteria are used to curtail CVD development.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And what does this have to do with my previous point?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Basically the study found that previous research on TMA's (which are abundous in animal protein) saying they're harmful to humans, may actually be wrong, and that they're in fact beneficial to our health. (edit 2: due to rapid bilophia production in the microbiome, which converts it to DMA?)

I'm not a microbiologist though, and I hope someone with background could expand this into an ELI5.

Edit: If you scroll down on the page, you can find a figure (FIG 1) which gives a more easy to understand view on the study and the impacts animal proteins were found to have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

B12s and similar are a bigger issue IIRC. Plants have the exact same proteins all life does, just not necessarily in the right amino acid proportions for humans. If you're not eating all one staple like a peasant you're probably not going to get seriously protein deficient, although it's harder to get enough to build muscle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been vegan for years and will tell you it's incredibly easy to get the amount of protein in. Plus like with an omni diet most packaged foods are fortified for vitamins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good to know. I've been ovo-lacto so I've never worried about it.

From what I've seen veganism isn't so good for actually bodybuilding, but let's be honest, the exercise is the bigger barrier for 99% of people. Maintaining a flabby Westerner body isn't biologically hard.