Researchers successfully potty-train cows

Re:Researchers successfully potty-train cows by ggm on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:00PM (#28516054)

I feel the lmited factual objections, and they are typically somewhat slight, is the avoidance of problems like osteoporosis. Calcium is just not as bioavailable in plant sources. In like sense we don't synthesise some vitamins well, which is an indication we expect bioavailable sources to be in our diet, genetically speaking.

Probably, insect sources would meet fat soluable needs if a live source was to be chosen.

(Not a vegan, omnivorous, happy to consider lacto-ovo vegetarianism at some poibt)

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Re:Researchers successfully potty-train cows by markstos on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:13PM (#28516235)

Harvard found calcium to be more bioavailable in plants.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium/#:~:tex....

What's your source for animal-based calcium being more bioavailable?

I had my calcium tested as a vegetarian and later as a vegan and it's gone up.

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Re:Researchers successfully potty-train cows by ggm on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:13PM (#28516959)

The studies I read suggest oxalate and phylate inhibit absorption. For instance

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12088515/

As a layperson, perhaps I misconstrued bioavailabilty and absorption because both come into effect.

I glad your calcium levels have risen btw, I would wonder if other effects like exercise or overall dietary sufficiency have changed. If for instance you ate less foods with chelating agents you'd alter iron absorption, perhaps your dietary shift removed confounding phylate? And no matter why, it's great they rose.

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