Vegan QUITS Diet After Almost Dying!

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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

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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)

03:38 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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