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[QUOTE="CMC'72, post: 2454656, member: 7661"]
Actually, you know, I should talk with her or her nutritionist.

I was a vegetarian for 16 years while working out alot (or vegan without dairy).  It wasn't until I found a young nutritionist who added the one aspect I was missing and most vegetarians miss.

My friend is a surgeon at CHOMP (Monterey, CA hospital) - and also an athelete.  He said immediately with the first cut through muscle tissue, he could tell if his patient was a vegetarian.  Vegetarian tissue broke apart rather than gave a clean incision.

Creatine is what you get from red meat, and you need 5 gm a day to build muscle (I still take 5 gm twice a day after both long workouts).  Creatine needs alpha-lipoic acid to move it into your system (Alpha-lipoic acid is what they refer to when we say, "An apple a day keeps the doc away.").

Taking both those in tandem with whey protein is a must for vegans, and yes, an unbalanced diet can cause mineral imbalance, easily.

I still do not eat red meat, but do chicken and fish no issue.
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