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so recently I had a question from

someone who is vegan and they’re on on

the keto plan and they wanted to know

what is the most important things to do

okay so in this video we’re gonna talk

about the most important nutrient that

you should do if you’re a vegan trying

to do ‘quite out one of the challenges

that vegans have on keto is difficulty

keeping your carbs low keeping your

protein high and also making sure that

you’re doing enough b12 iron vitamin A

because the vitamin A in plant foods is

really a pre vitamin A that has to

convert also getting enough vitamin D

but you can get better D from the Sun

and also likens okay trace minerals

might be difficult to get but the big

nutrient that seems to be always

deficient is these essential fatty acids

okay there’s actually two of them okay

let me show you we have the omega-6

fatty acids and the omega-3 fatty acids

okay this is the one that I’m not

worried about because this is very easy

to get so the one I want to talk about

is the omega-3 fatty acid called alpha

linolenic acid and actually you can get

this pretty easily in walnuts chia seed

flaxseed and a lot of other foods now

here’s the problem this by itself

doesn’t really do you much good unless

it converts into these other healthy

fats right here okay EPA in DHA these

two fats are vitally important if you’re

a vegan because you’re not consuming

fatty fish like salmon or cod liver oil

so you’re not going to get it okay but

the problem is that the conversion from

ala to DHA is only two to five percent

okay

and the conversion of ala to epa is only

five to ten percent and if you’re

consuming large amounts of the omega-6

that can decrease these numbers even

more epa and DHA are really important in

brain physiology nervous system

physiology it can act as an

anti-inflammatory very very important in

stabilizing your mood preventing

depression anxiety and also to maintain

your cog

function but if you’re a vegan you can

easily get these if you take microalgae

this is the nutrient you want to take if

you’re on keto to make sure that you get

both of these right here simply because

you’re not going to get the conversion

so go to the health of store or online

and find the vegan source of omega-3

fatty acids and make sure it has both

epa and DHA thanks for watching if

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