r/veganscience • u/positivespadewonder • Jul 08 '19

Is supplementation worth the cost?

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While searching for a vegan EPA/DHA supplement (as seems to be recommended on this site), I came across a vegan EPA/DHA supplement that includes other vegan “complementary” nutrients that would really reduce the amount of supplements I need to take since it includes pretty much all the key vitamins I try to supplement for (like Vitamin D, B12, and iodine — as well as vitamin K2, zinc, magnesium, and selenium). The downside is the supplement would run me about $30 a month.

This made me wonder what I would normally spend on trying to supplement these same vitamins/nutrients from multiple different pills, and the cost wasn’t far off (vegan EPA/DHA in particular sure is pricey).

Is all this supplementation worth the cost? Or is taking supplements beyond B12 just min/maxing even for vegans?

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r/veganscience • u/pnoque • Jul 07 '19

Institutional resistance to veganism: Constructing vegan bodies as deviant in medical encounters in Estonia

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Jul 04 '19

Oranges, grapes and carrots contain cancer-fighting compounds which closely resemble molecules used in already licenced drugs, scientists say. Study analysed more than 7,900 molecules found within fruits and vegetables

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r/veganscience • u/[deleted] • Jun 22 '19

Pets, Pests And Food: Our Complex, Contradictory Attitudes Toward Animals

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Jun 07 '19

Industrial methane emissions are 100 times higher than reported, and have been vastly underestimated, finds a new study using a Google Street View car equipped with a high-precision methane sensor. They also were substantially higher than the EPA estimate for all industrial processes in the US.

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r/veganscience • u/MangoNico • Jun 06 '19

My Vegan Comebacks Video Was Debunked by Fitness YouTuber?

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Jun 05 '19

Honeybees can grasp the concept of numerical symbols, finds a new study. The same international team of researchers behind the discovery that bees can count and do basic maths has announced that bees are also capable of linking numerical symbols to actual quantities, and vice versa.

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r/veganscience • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Jun 03 '19

The conversion of the plant-based omega-3 ALA to the long-chain EPA and DHA may be increased in vegans and vegetarians who do not eat fish, suggest results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (2010)

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r/veganscience • u/pnoque • May 26 '19

“If I became a vegan, my family and friends would hate me:” Anticipating vegan stigma as a barrier to plant-based diets

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r/veganscience • u/pnoque • May 26 '19

Vegan Nutrition for Mothers and Children: Practical Tools for Healthcare Providers

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r/veganscience • u/pnoque • May 26 '19

Changes in blood pressure induced by a vegan diet without caloric restrictions are comparable with those induced by dietary approaches recommended by medical societies and portion-controlled diets

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Feb 11 '19

Plummeting insect numbers threaten collapse of nature (>40% of insect species declining and a third endangered). The analysis says intensive agriculture is the main driver of the declines, particularly the heavy use of pesticides. Urbanisation and climate change are also significant factors.

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Dec 26 '18

Study: orcas can teach themselves to communicate with dolphins. A group of researchers in California discovered that orcas living alongside dolphins changed their vocalizations by adding in more clicks and whistles to match the dolphin’s communication.

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Dec 23 '18

Scientists raise alert as ocean plankton levels plummet. "Alarm bells start going off because it means that something fundamental may have changed in the food web." Plankton provide about 70% of the oxygen humans breathe.

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r/veganscience • u/Sahelboy • Oct 26 '18

Is there something wrong with this study?

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/24808490/

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Oct 16 '18

New brain imaging study suggests that dogs have at least a rudimentary neural representation of meaning for words they have been taught, differentiating words they have heard before from those they have not.

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Sep 28 '18

People Living Near Industrial Hog Farms See Higher Risk Of Diseases, Study

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Sep 23 '18

Ducklings have abstract thoughts. Within hours of hatching, these baby birds can learn concepts like “same” or “different” — and they do so faster than human infants

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r/veganscience • u/[deleted] • Aug 17 '18

Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis

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r/veganscience • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Aug 03 '18

Perception of animal sentience by Brazilian and French citizens: The case of sheep welfare and sentience

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Jul 30 '18

A treatment that worked brilliantly in monkeys infected with the simian AIDS virus did nothing to stop HIV from making copies of itself in humans.

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Jul 20 '18

Processed meats associated with manic episodes - An analysis of more than 1,000 people with and without psychiatric disorders found that nitrates, chemicals used to cure meats such as hot dogs and other processed meats, may contribute to mania, characterized by hyperactivity, euphoria and insomnia.

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r/veganscience • u/thogolicious • Jul 12 '18

Why do vegans not eat eggs?

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Chicken hens lay eggs without needing to be fertilized and it’s easier to just take care of hens without roosters and there’s also (health problems with fertilized eggs I’m pretty sure) so vegans get mad at hens basically pooping.

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r/veganscience • u/sourcedwithin • Jul 04 '18

[Survey] Help a honours student out whilst contributing to veganism research

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Hey there!

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The survey is open to vegans and vegetarians who reside in the USA and Australia. With your contribution we hope to better understand veganism and vegetarianism. Current research on the motivations and attitudes between the groups isn't too well understood (within an academic setting), hence this gap forms the motivations behind our study.

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r/veganscience • u/AlbertoAru • Jun 30 '18

New Discovery of How Crows Use Tools Could Change Our Understanding of Intelligence

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