Recovering Vegan

13/02/2026

A cow eating grass is not harmful to the planet. A cow eating grass IS the planet. Learn the truth. Travel and visit some cows and get to know them! These are cows I ran into along a country road in Northern Arizona.

12/02/2026

I didn’t realize how bad it actually was until I looked at the research myself.

Leave your shoes outside!

​Every time we step into a public bathroom, hospital, gym, sidewalk or grocery store, our shoes collect a toxic mix of:

​Allergens
​Asphalt + road residue
​Carcinogens
​Cigarette butt chemicals
​Dirt & debris
​Feces and urine
​Lawn, garden chemicals
​Herbicides and pesticides
​Lead
​Mold & mold spores
​Microplastics
​Ticks & other parasites & their eggs
​viruses

​And here’s the part that made me cringe...

Research from the University of Arizona found between 3,600 & 8 million bacteria units per shoe (the average was 421,000).

Over 90% of that transferred right onto clean floors. Some of the bacteria they found?

​E. coli (causes UTIs & gut infections)
​Klebsiella (linked to pneumonia)
​Serratia (respiratory infections)
​Even meningitis-causing strains

​When we walk through our homes, those microbes don’t just stay on the floor, they get stirred into the air, on furniture, counters and end up on little hands, pets, & everything else.

​So if you’ve got kids crawling, pets roaming or a barefoot home, this one small shift can make a big difference.

Leave your shoes by the door.

The easiest way to keep your home cleaner & your family healthier is to stop wearing shoes inside.

04/02/2026

15/01/2026

Your brain needs 400 calories a day just to think! Starving your body will starve your mind.

09/01/2026

"Draws criticism for recommending meat!"

Federal health and agriculture officials have released updated dietary guidelines that urge Americans to follow some contradictory or puzzling ideas, while keeping some advice intact.

28/12/2025

America is eating meat again? I don't see it. I see grocers laden with ultra processed carbs and dairy substitutes. But maybe that's just California?

For more than a decade, cutting down on meat and other animal products has been idealized as a healthier, more ethical way to eat. Now the appeal is fading, Yasmin Tayag writes. (From March) https://theatln.tc/zLhEjq3r

The Obama administration passed a law to limit meat in school lunches, and meat alternatives such as Impossible Burger flooded grocery-store shelves. It all heralded a more plant-based future. But a convergence of cultural and nutritional shifts, “supercharged by the return of the noted hamburger-lover President Donald Trump, has thrust meat back to the center of the American plate,” Tayag writes. “It’s not just MAGA bros and MAHA moms who resist plant-based eating. A wide swath of the U.S. seems to be sending a clear message: Nobody should feel bad about eating meat.”

America has become obsessed with consuming more protein, a fad boosted by the growing numbers of people on GLP-1 drugs seeking out protein-rich diets and the free fall of plant-based meat’s popularity due to concerns about its cost, taste, and healthfulness. Yet “the embrace of meat isn’t just about food, but also about what meat represents: tradition, strength, dominance, muscles—values championed by the right,” Tayag writes.

“Conservatives have long sought to turn meat into a front in the culture wars,” she continues. “Trump’s reelection has bolstered the cause.” Some of the most vocal support for the meat-forward lifestyle emanates from the “manosphere,” a right-leaning internet subculture best known for men promoting different ways to become manlier that is popular among the young men who voted for Trump.

All of this is happening amid confusion about what it even means to eat well. The medical and scientific community still agree: Reducing consumption of red and processed meats is better for human and planetary health. “But as pro-meat figures such as [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] and Trump challenge those views—not to mention the institutions that support them—the problems with meat-eating no longer seem as clear-cut,” Tayag continues.

🎨: Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: Getty.

27/12/2025

They want to tell us that "we were never really vegan." It's classic gaslighting to make us doubt ourselves!

🛑 Ex-Vegans Were Never Truly Vegan 🛑

Let’s unpack this.

“Ex-vegan” isn’t a fail—it’s proof of how powerful the pressures around us can be. Society’s nonstop messages (the ads, the traditions, the norms, the judgments) can make veganism tough to maintain. But true veganism isn’t just a diet; it’s a deep connection to the planet, animals, and ourselves and a commitment to lessen harm.

But get this: You’re not alone. At , we’re building a community that lifts each other up, with support and resources when things get tough. If you stumble, we’re here to help you find your way back. 🌱💚

Got a story about a time you struggled to stay vegan, or found new motivation? What external pressures are hardest for you to navigate? We’d love to hear from you—let’s keep building this community together. 👊

08/12/2025

Many people are unaware that they carry a gene - MTHFR mutation - that predisposes them to vitamin deficiency . For those people , a or diet is disastrous and malnourishing.

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06/12/2025

The Loneliness of Being the Only Healthy One -- Can You Relate?

Nobody talks about the loneliness of getting healthy. Of changing your life while people you love slowly destroy theirs.

It’s heartbreaking to be the one who:

🌿 eats real food and meat
🚶‍♀️ walks miles a day
🔥 stays sober, present
🧠 takes nootropics not antidepressants
🌞 chooses sunlight, movement, and nature

…while people you love spiral into sickness, addiction, mental health chaos...or just fade away.

When you heal, no one warns you that:

— some people will drift farther away.

— when you break destructive patterns, others stay inside theirs.

— when you choose life, some people choose the opposite.

It’s painful to watch people you care about suffer —
to see them getting weaker, sicker, more numbed, more lost — and realize you can’t save them.

You can't even share a meal.

Getting healthy isn’t just a transformation. It's a grieving process.

If you’re someone who’s rebuilt your life, your health, your body, your habits…

and lost people along the way —

you’re not alone.

I’d love to connect with others who are choosing vitality, clarity, and growth,
even when it means walking a different path.

🌿✨

21/11/2025

Karolina Krzyżak, a 27-year-old Polish woman, has died for the animals. For purity. Senselessly.

At the time of her death in October she weighed about 27 kg / 60 lbs.

For years she ate only fruit, believing it would “cleanse her body.”

No protein. No fat. No iron, calcium, or B vitamins. Just fruit.

Slowly, her body began to fall apart.
She grew weaker and weaker, moved slowly, spoke with difficulty.
Her skin became thin, cracked, and gray. Her hair faded. Her teeth crumbled.
She looked like an elderly woman in her twenties.

In Bali, hotel staff begged her to see a doctor. She refused, repeating,

“The body will heal itself."

Not unless you nourish it. She didn't.

21/11/2025

PubMed study in 2025 links orthorexic disordered eating and diets.

Source: PubMed