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histamine intolerance after menopause
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Yes! You are definitely right! The problem with what I did is that I did not think about it at all. The most that was running through my mind was something like "you just have to make sure you get enough protein". When things started to happen, I did not connect the dots. I am definitely eating enough fruits, grains, and vegetables -especially since not being able to eat any process foods or at restaurants for nearly 2 years! It did not cross my mind that I could be malnourished in some way. The B12 issue did come up (after I got really sick) and I fixed that. The B6 caught me by surprise. I am probably not going to do flexitarianism in any fashion after this. It might be totally OK, but this experience was really crazy and frightening and who knows what else there is about it that people don't know yet. It might be that things don't show up for years.
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It sounds to me like what you had accidently fallen into wasn't so much flexetarianism, but maybe more like an extreme version of vegetarianism, but in such a way that it wasn't obvious that that is what was happening. So you couldn't prepare for it by researching what you might need to stay healthy.
I have heard of at least one supplement marketed to vegans that contains only b12 and b6, so someone somewhere recognizes that extra b6 is important when our meat consumption drops to zero.
I think there is a big difference between zero and moderation (2 or 3 ounces per day). I think of myself as a person who struggles with moderation, and I know I tend to take things to extremes. What I've realized lately is that almost everyone can fall into this kind of trap.
We end up eating too much of something (added sugar in all of our foods and drinks, more meat than is really good for us) or go to the other extremes of zero meat or 'low-carb' diets, both of which can be harmful in their own way.