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Nutrient Substrate Gaps
The building blocks a plant-forward diet can miss.
The idea
A traditional plant-forward diet carries real strengths and a few specific gaps: vitamin B12 that mostly comes from animal foods, vitamin D that mostly comes from sun a northern diaspora rarely gets, protein that often lands below what a muscle-challenged phenotype needs. These are substrate problems, missing raw materials, and they are among the cheapest things in all of medicine to find and fix. The tragedy is how often nobody tests.
How the evidence grades it
Every study is labeled by what it does to this concept. Counting the counterevidence is the point.
+8 ungraded
Support 36Neutral 21Qualify 2Reframe 5Contradict 2
Key studies
- Lessons Learned From Epidemiology of Type 2 Diabetes in South Asians: Kelly West Award Lecture 2024. PMID 39841965
- Relationship between tobacco use and body mass index- a propensity score matching analysis of an indian National Survey. PMID 40435358
- Circulating lipidome underpins gender differences in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. PMID 40294748
- Impact of high- and moderate-protein supplementation on early-life obesity and body composition: a randomized controlled trial in India. PMID 40220899
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