2. Many people are not aware that a) there is no science demonstrating that removing animal foods from the diet provides any health benefits and b) staple foods of #Vegan diets like nuts/legumes interfere with brain nutrition.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXlVfwJ6RQU …
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3. There are good reasons to believe that vegan diets may increase risk for developmental disorders of the brain that manifest in early childhood such as
#Autism and#ADHD. DHA supplementation (only veg form = algae oil) is critical and may reduce risk?https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5331586/ …5 replies 19 retweets 68 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @GeorgiaEdeMD
What ‘good reasons’ are there to believe that vegan diets cause ADHD and Autism in childhood, Georgia?
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DHA deficiency increases risk. See article linked to in tweet and video presentation for more information. Non-vegans also at risk if diet quality is poor but prevalence higher in vegans and vegetarians b/c plants contain no DHA. Algae oil supplements critical.
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So, that meta-analysis did not show that DHA deficiency increases risk, per se, merely that the deficiency is associated with autism and that IN PEOPLE WITH AUTISM supplementation improves some symptoms by a small amount
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It's also worth noting that the I^2 statistic ranged from 68% to 97%(!) indicating very significant heterogeneity because they lumped together incredibly disparate symptom scores which makes the results questionable
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There is also an important distinction between some diets being (potentially) protective of an event and other diets causing it - in this case, at best, you may have demonstrated the former, but not the latter
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It's probably also worth noting that the total study population in the meta-analysis for behavioural improvements was 107, which makes the results extremely underwhelming
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