I have just watched a Netflix American documentary selling the virtues of a plant based diet over meat. Come was ‘save the planet’ but a lot was about it helped your body – lots of blood tests with unintelligible results but all presented as good.

Moving away from my cynicism for the moment, they did appear to show a great increase in reducing inflammatory issues and recovery from injury and surgery.

These are two things that plague me.

Anyone done this?
Anyone with their experiences?

Interestingly a plant free diet is also touted at reducing inflammation.

You can do anything for a month. Give both a go.

And cbd oil… My dog is off medication for grass allergy after a couple of months on cbd oil. Which is ironic.

Yes, I mostly follow a whole food plant based diet plus oily fish. The main idea being to reduce saturated fats which are inflammatory and increase polyunsaturated fats which are anti-inflammatory (bit simplified but that’s the gist).

Whether or not it helps me is anyone’s guess but I figure that at worst it just won’t help. There is some population based evidence for this diet, even my neurologist suggested (unprompted) that it’s a good thing to do.

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I’m doing an experiment on that now. Recovering from ORIF surgery on my left scaphoid last Wednesday. So far no swelling and no pain. Could be my plant based diet although I am still consuming dairy products.

Only problem is I can’t compare it to recovery on a non plant based diet. Need a similar test case on a carnivore.