An ex-vegan whose hair started to fall out in chunks claims that the diet almost killed her - and that eating meat saved her life.
SWNS / Kai-Lee Worsley
SWNS / Kai-Lee Worsley
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00:00 I actually eat steaks like twice a week now because I almost died.
00:05 [laughs]
00:06 Do you guys remember when I was a diehard vegan and I had a V tattooed in my ear?
00:10 And I thought that I was gonna be vegan forever.
00:14 I actually eat steaks like twice a week now because I almost died.
00:19 [laughs]
00:20 I went vegan after I went to California and I learned about it and people were telling me
00:26 and I was like, "Oh my god, I can't believe what they do to the animals and what it does to the environment."
00:30 And it was trendy at the time.
00:33 Like it was coming up and people were talking about it.
00:35 I didn't do it because it was a trend.
00:37 I've never even seen Game of Thrones.
00:39 I don't want to live if I'm, you know, hurting everything.
00:44 Anyways, plot twist, I was really hurting myself.
00:47 [laughs]
00:48 So I was vegan, I honestly don't remember for how long.
00:53 Probably because my brain wasn't functioning that well.
00:55 Anyways, I had a good diet too.
00:57 I was eating a lot of the proper foods.
00:59 I was supplementing some things as well.
01:01 I was exercising. I was trying to exercise still.
01:03 I was still living a healthy life.
01:05 I wasn't just eating [bleep] kale and salads.
01:08 First of all, do I look like an only eating salad person?
01:10 Like, no.
01:11 This is when I knew I was dying.
01:14 I would get up and my eye would be so woozy.
01:17 I'd be like, stars everywhere.
01:20 I couldn't even function.
01:22 My nails would break all the time.
01:24 I would just like, flick something and my nail would break.
01:27 My hair was falling out. It wasn't as healthy as it is now.
01:30 My skin was like, 84 times as bad as it is now.
01:35 It was so bad.
01:36 I had acne all down my neck.
01:39 I had no energy.
01:41 I would wake up and be tired.
01:43 I would sleep all day or as long as I could.
01:46 It was really hard for me. I didn't feel strong.
01:48 Honestly, I felt so weak.
01:50 It was a really slow process until one day,
01:53 I was in bed and I was like,
01:55 I don't think I could ever get up again.
01:57 I came to the point where I was like,
01:59 I might die right now.
02:00 I might die right here in this tiny apartment
02:03 in this random city that I moved to
02:05 to try and work on my career.
02:07 No friends or family around me.
02:08 I thought I was just going to die in my bed.
02:10 So, I was like, [bleep]
02:12 there's only one thing that I think I can do
02:14 to save myself and it's eat a steak.
02:17 So, I mustered up literally all of the courage I could
02:20 at the time, go to the store.
02:23 It's hard for me to even look at the meat
02:24 because I was like, so...
02:26 I don't want to use the term brainwashed,
02:27 but I feel like it's probably the easiest term
02:30 to use right now.
02:32 I didn't want to look at the meat.
02:33 I hated cooking it. It smelled awful to me.
02:35 But as soon as I [bleep] ate one piece of meat,
02:37 I immediately felt better.
02:39 Immediately. Like it was like light and day.
02:41 The lights flickered on in my brain
02:42 and my body was like, oh, I got food.
02:45 Anyways, after that, I saw a series of doctors
02:47 and like holistic doctors, western doctors,
02:50 every type of doctor ever.
02:52 I poured thousands of dollars into my health after that
02:54 and it came to the conclusion that I just genuinely
02:57 have to eat meat because I was so low on iron,
02:59 so low on B12.
03:01 I can't remember what else because I've been eating meat
03:02 for like four years now. I feel amazing.
03:04 Yeah, it's just crazy.
03:06 Actually, no, it depends on your DNA.
03:10 And I consulted so many doctors.
03:12 I saw lots of nutritionists.
03:13 If you have a ton of money to spend on supplements
03:17 and time to take them every day, possibly.
03:20 Because of my genetics, I'm just,
03:22 I'm not supposed to not eat meat.
03:24 I tried.
03:26 But, nope.
03:28 Sometimes you just gotta do it.
03:31 (upbeat music)
03:35 (music fades)
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