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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. L. Amber O'Hearn‏ @KetoCarnivore 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @KetoCarnivore @GidMK @zoeharcombe

      Finally (haha, ok, finally for now) I must be upfront with the fact that my own experience deeply colours my expectations here, since I grew up vegetarian and had progressive bipolar disorder as an adult, that has been in remission since stopping eating plants. I can't unsee it,

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    2. L. Amber O'Hearn‏ @KetoCarnivore 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @KetoCarnivore @GidMK @zoeharcombe

      even though I know it's a "one off", in a certain sense (though I know others who had the same experience). I don't know why this happened, but I've had a decade to think about it, and have found many ideas to help explain it, or confirm my biases, depending on view.

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @KetoCarnivore @zoeharcombe

      So, here's the interesting point - I don't really see an epidemiological argument here. There's a study comparing a SAD-style diet to Mediterranean-style diets, and a hypothesis based on nutrient deficiency

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @GidMK @KetoCarnivore @zoeharcombe

      And the nutrient deficiencies largely seem to be speaking to a low-quality vegetarian diet - as I'm sure you're aware, these can all be rectified by carefully selecting the foods a person eats

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. L. Amber O'Hearn‏ @KetoCarnivore 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @GidMK @zoeharcombe

      I said that as well, but the relevance depends on the question. If the question is "Does going on a vegetarian diet tend to cause depression?" That's different from "Does it have to?", because it would be looking at what people do, not what they could do.

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @KetoCarnivore @zoeharcombe

      Not a bad point, but I'd say that the idea that there might be vegetarian diets that could be harmful isn't particularly strong theoretically as support for the idea that vegetarian diets cause depression. A bit like saying that meat is bad because wild-rabbit-only diets are bad

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. L. Amber O'Hearn‏ @KetoCarnivore 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @GidMK @zoeharcombe

      Well, I'm in a funny position, because don't really want to support the idea of saying that a recently turned vegetarian's depression was caused by it, given the state of the science, but the OP was about what happens in practice, not in best case.

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    8. L. Amber O'Hearn‏ @KetoCarnivore 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @KetoCarnivore @GidMK @zoeharcombe

      Wild-rabbit-only diets really are terrible, but most people who try meat-only diets don't accidentally do that.

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @KetoCarnivore @zoeharcombe

      I'm sure most vegetarians would argue that everyone knows that you have to supplement certain nutrients by eating specific foods, most people don't just go bread-only🤷‍♂️

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    10. L. Amber O'Hearn‏ @KetoCarnivore 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @GidMK @zoeharcombe

      This would be good to get real quantitative information on, actually, though I'm not sure how. What do vegetarians think they need and what do they actually do? It might be different from your or my intuition.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @KetoCarnivore @zoeharcombe

      I'm sure there's been qualitative research on the subject, although not my area of expertise

      2:43 PM - 21 Oct 2019
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