>>13354146>Proof? You can just eat fortified foods if you don't like vitamins>dude we're just like biological robots, we just need the right inputsYou're not wrong, but this kind of reddit reductionist viewpoint is dangerous.
You completely underestimate the complexity of natural systems like the human body.
How do you know we know all there is to know about the human body?
How do you know that what we know is also correct?
In fact, so much of nutrition science is completely bullshit it shouldn't be called a science. It's in a state just as bad as psychology and sociology.
True, it is hard to find out. It's hard to do studies like this in vitro. It's almost impossible to do long running controlled double blind nutritional studies identical twins or large populations. But that's no excuse to pump out junk "science"
The nutritional guidelines are problematic too. Like why do carnivorous humans not get scurvy? Shouldn't they be deficient in vitamin C?
Many nutrients are relative. Some nutrients compete for the same pathways, others the body can make from other components.
Then there is stuff we know is important, but don't know a whole lot about. Like gut microbiology and gut lining.
So how do we know how we should eat? The simplest and safest way would be to eat as our ancestors ate. Though what that was and how far back you should go is also up for debate.
But we can be sure it wasn't veganism. A natural vegan diet doesn't exit. A healthy(if that even exists)vegan diet can only be sustained by globalism and modern technology.
