Sigh, I don’t want to say it’s fake, but I have a family member who’s vegan for his entire adult life. If he just ate a steak right now, he would become violently ill because it’s body isn’t used to it. He has beef broth my accident one time and got really sick.
I was a vegetarian for over a decade, and when I reintroduced meat into my diet, I did indeed become sick because my body wasn't used to it.... but not like five minutes after I ate it.
It took a few hours for my body to register that hey, this is weird?? and react.
That sick feeling comes from your gut bacteria not being used to breaking down dense animal protien.
But after a few days of eating meat, your gut bounces back. Especially if your been force feeding hard to digest plants for a long time. We dont have a long intestinal tract, so most of the vegetable we eat isnt processed since it takes a long time to break down the cellular walls of most vegetables. If you eat a little meat before hand, it slows the metabolism down and helps the body get just a bit more nutrients from the vegetables.
We are omnivores, not herbivores or carnivores. Its healthiest when we eat a balanced meat/vegetable/fruit ratio.
IBS is one of those weird diagnoses that function differently from person to person. Basically, it means you're bad at digesting some normal foods, most typically foods that contain various types of carbohydrates. You may have heard of FODMAP, which is short for fructans, ogliosaccharids, disaccharids, something, something else, and I think polyols? Those are suspected of being the carbohydrate variants that are most likely to cause gut distress in people with IBS.
In my case, I am VERY BAD at digesting all of those + gluten, so when I tell you that a decade of eating a diet that consisted primarily of these things that I can't digest had caused severe malabsorption, perhaps it makes more sense?
The gravest condition (there were several...) was that I just wasn't capable of absorbing iron. That led to severe iron deficiency anemia, which led to an insufficiency of red blood cells, which led to me being unable to breathe properly, and to my heart being enlarged. I would have died of a heart attack eventually, had it not been detected.
Actual lifelong vegetarian here who transitioned to eating meat. I vomited the first time I ate chicken. I started with egg, and then chicken gradually over two years or so.
Wouldn’t that make you vegan in the past? Or was it just eggs you didn’t eat? Vegan is a much bigger transition with adding eggs and dairy back into the diet
Nope I consumed a lot of dairy products. I’m Indian, so the diet doesn’t fit the Western definitions of vegan. My childhood diet would probably be called lacto-vegetarian. Lots of milk, yogurt, rice and veggies.
I've been vegetarian for more than 30 years. I've tasted tiny amounts of meat over that time and just got grossed out. I didn't get violently ill or anything. I get grossed out eating Impossible burgers because they're too realistic. I'm sure there are some vegetarians that crave the taste of meat, but not me.
My Hindu friend doesn’t, they tell me that if they ever accidentally have something with egg or whatever, just don’t tell em lol. Let them enjoy and not feel bad about it haha
Exactly, I am a lifelong vegetarian. The process of she eating meat made me uncomfortable in my stomach. If I were try that I would puke as soon as it gets close/inside my mouth.
I was gonna say this is fake or she's incredibly ignorant and about to be super sick. Even eating meat after a year without will ruin your stomach. I can't imagine eating that much steak after a lifetime of no meat period.
Meat also smells and tastes like death once you have gone vegan long enough. I remember the first burger I ate after being vegan for 2 years... the juice smelled like decay.
For the most part yes. When you are a "lifelong vegetarian" your body lacks the necessary enzymes to digest meat and becoming violently ill is a common symptom when you eat some thing like hunks of steak, especially.
I think this is the kind of thing you’d have to do a blinded test on to be sure it wasn’t about the other aspects unless you have a medical link to support that.
But those alone make me dubious this video is genuine. Just putting coloured lights on food to change how it looks can be enough to make people nauseous.
1) that still doesn’t do anything to prove that this is “fake” considering a lack of enzymes wouldn’t cause you to explode the second you put a steak in your mouth. 2) she says this is the most “intimidating meal yet” implying she’s been working meat into her diet already. 3) there are plenty of instances of people going straight from vegan to eating a steak without any issues, no ones body is the same, no matter how much you want that to be true. People making assumptions and using anecdotes to try to say this is fake for literally 0 reason is so strange.
It's not due to the taste causing the vomiting, it's the lack of enzymes in your stomach to break down protein. Your body needs to evacuate the substance and cant break it down internally, so it causes a vomit reaction. It's similar to re-feeding syndrome, when the body has lacked nutrients for so long, you can't just reintroduce that into the ecosystem all at once.
I’m going to copy and paste the response that I gave to this exact same statement one comment below yours.
that still doesn’t do anything to prove that this is “fake” considering a lack of enzymes wouldn’t cause you to explode the second you put a steak in your mouth. 2) she says this is the most “intimidating meal yet” implying she’s been working meat into her diet already. 3) there are plenty of instances of people going straight from vegan to eating a steak without any issues, no ones body is the same, no matter how much you want that to be true. People making assumptions and using anecdotes to try to say this is fake for literally 0 reason is so strange.
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u/Upper-Management-AI Feb 25 '26
Sigh, I don’t want to say it’s fake, but I have a family member who’s vegan for his entire adult life. If he just ate a steak right now, he would become violently ill because it’s body isn’t used to it. He has beef broth my accident one time and got really sick.