It will be an uphill battle convincing people to eat organs on a regular basis, although you could probably cook or prepare them in a way that could be palatable to most people, who tend to have a natural yuck reflex to eating raw organs which is more of a carnivore thing.
You say we need to eat less meat, but Americans eat the most meat in the world and 42% of them are still deficient in vitamin D. Almost all US and Canada milk supply is artificially fortified with D. Seems to be an issue in general. I already agreed it's an issue in winter, so the equator thing doesn't really matter.
I've not experienced any symptoms of vitamin A deficiency and my blood tests never showed anything. I just assumed my body was functioning normally and able to convert betacarotene into retinol. Like I said I tried the preformed retinol just in case to see if there was any improvement, so I'm not dismissing that concern.
The study you cited said the conversion rate can be 8 times lower based on several factors, not 28 times lower. It says factors include fat consumed with the meal, obesity, and genetic polymorphisms in the BCMO1 gene, specifically:
carriers of the 379V and 267S + 379V variant alleles showed a 69% decrease in their ability to convert β-carotene
subjects with more body fat have a lower capability to convert β-carotene to vitamin A.
carotenoid-rich yellow and green leafy vegetables need a certain minimum amount of fat (2.4 g fat/meal) to ensure the absorption of fat-soluble provitamin A carotenoids and to improve vitamin A nutritional status
So don't be a fatso, eat 2.4g of fat with meal, or eat 69% more carrots if you have the gene thing.
Are you vegan or vegetarian?
Not really into those words. I don't eat animals and I don't think this is particularly remarkable, and I don't think I have any burden to prove why I'm not hurting animals.
It will be an uphill battle convincing people to eat organs on a regular basis, although you could probably cook or prepare them in a way that could be palatable to most people, who tend to have a natural yuck reflex to eating raw organs which is more of a carnivore thing.
You say we need to eat less meat, but Americans eat the most meat in the world and 42% of them are still deficient in vitamin D. Almost all US and Canada milk supply is artificially fortified with D. Seems to be an issue in general. I already agreed it's an issue in winter, so the equator thing doesn't really matter.
I've not experienced any symptoms of vitamin A deficiency and my blood tests never showed anything. I just assumed my body was functioning normally and able to convert betacarotene into retinol. Like I said I tried the preformed retinol just in case to see if there was any improvement.
The study you cited said the conversion rate can be 8 times lower based on several factors, not 28 times lower. It says factors include fat consumed with the meal, obesity, and genetic polymorphisms in the BCMO1 gene, specifically:
carriers of the 379V and 267S + 379V variant alleles showed a 69% decrease in their ability to convert β-carotene
subjects with more body fat have a lower capability to convert β-carotene to vitamin A.
carotenoid-rich yellow and green leafy vegetables need a certain minimum amount of fat (2.4 g fat/meal) to ensure the absorption of fat-soluble provitamin A carotenoids and to improve vitamin A nutritional status
So don't be a fatso, eat 2.4g of fat with meal, or eat 69% more carrots if you have the gene thing.
Are you vegan or vegetarian?
Not really into those words. I don't eat animals and I don't think this is particularly remarkable, and I don't think I have any burden to prove why I'm not hurting animals.
It will be an uphill battle convincing people to eat organs on a regular basis, although you could probably cook or prepare them in a way that could be palatable to most people, who tend to have a natural yuck reflex to eating raw organs which is more of a carnivore thing.
You say we need to eat less meat, but Americans eat the most meat in the world and 42% of them are still deficient in vitamin D. Almost all US and Canada milk supply is artificially fortified with D. Seems to be an issue in general. I already agreed it's an issue in winter, so the equator thing doesn't really matter.
I've not experienced any symptoms of vitamin A deficiency and my blood tests never showed anything. I just assumed my body was functioning normally and able to convert betacarotene into retinol. Like I said I tried the preformed retinol just in case to see if there was any improvement.
The study you cited said the conversion rate can be 8 times lower based on several factors, not 28 times lower. The factors include fat consumed with the meal, obesity, and genetic polymorphisms in the BCMO1 gene, specifically:
carriers of the 379V and 267S + 379V variant alleles showed a 69% decrease in their ability to convert β-carotene
subjects with more body fat have a lower capability to convert β-carotene to vitamin A.
carotenoid-rich yellow and green leafy vegetables need a certain minimum amount of fat (2.4 g fat/meal) to ensure the absorption of fat-soluble provitamin A carotenoids and to improve vitamin A nutritional status
So don't be a fatso, eat 2.4g of fat with meal, or eat 69% more carrots if you have the gene thing.
Are you vegan or vegetarian?
Not really into those words. I don't eat animals and I don't think this is particularly remarkable, and I don't think I have any burden to prove why I'm not hurting animals.