You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment

Hi, I'm vegan by the way.

Throughout the 4 episodes, several times vegan diet is refered as the one with less proteins, or the one with limited protein sources. The few ready vegan meals they showed us looked tiny and like a side dish not a whole meal.

But, there are so many sources of proteins for vegan diet? All kind of beans, lentils, tofu, tempeh, seitan, whole grain pasta, nuts, just from top of my head.

When I first went vegan, for two months I was using nutrition calculator to make sure I get enough proteins (I was also working out a lot back then). It was easy. Everyone could do it.

I feel like people from the study didn't give enough resources like this to the vegan twins. Teaching them how much they should actually eat a day and what are their protein options.

At the beginning they also say that vegan diet lack some nutritions like B12 and iron. And yeah OK, but in the real world we vegans just get our supplements for these, so it's not like we don't have access to that. I wonder if vegan twins got their supplements.

Anyway, good documentary. I learnt a lot. I loved the side stories like the one about that fancy New York restaurant or the chicken farmer.

Happy veganuary 2024!

There is a lot of fear lingering and very old information in this series. What made it interesting was how the twins were doing, unfortunately there was very little in the series about the twins. Vegan or carnivor, eat what you want. But do not tout the very best of veganism/food in comparison to the very worst of carnivore/food. There is a lot of difference between high quality meat and the garbage we are offered at the store, just as there is with the fruits/veggies at the store.

Bottom line, eat the best food you can get your hands on, get out and walk, get extra sugar and overly processed food out of your diet, get some fresh air...these simple, non-expensive changes will do wonders.

I initially started watching this series because of the identical twins and how they were going to eat for the next 8 weeks. What I didn't expect is a mulit-episode infomercial on why you should eat plant-based foods. Look, I get it. Meat bad, plants good. Don't label a show as an experiment on identical twins when it's really a promotional video for a plant-based lifestyle. You're making it sound like anyone who eats meat should feel guilty about every aspect of the environment, social issues, health issues, etc. That's just not the case across the board. The twins we're the best part of this show, and I am very disappointed it wasn't more about them. By episode 3, the twins are hardly in it.

I object to the presentation of this series. It says, it's about the experiment. But it's not. Except for episode 1, there is hardly anything about the participants. It's about how bad the food industry is, and how bad meat is for you. I agree absolutely that the meat industry is very bad. The word alone tells you that. But it's the skewed info on the series I don't like. Just say it upfront. We want to convince you, that veganism is best. You should not eat meat. We will show you a lot of bad things about the food industry, in order to make you change to vegan. That is the point of the series.

By the end of the 4 episodes, I was quite confused about the results and the ins and outs of what they ate, how they cooked the food themselves, how they trained, and the differences in the results. It started off really interesting with presenting the study and all its different components and what they could find out. Sadly, by the end they just focused on convincing people to go vegan. The context of the food industry etc especially the bacteria in some meat was quite interesting, but again it was quite heavily biased towards veganism, not showing one drawback of a full plant based diet and it felt like they were trying to do 2 things in one - the actual study and a documentary about the bad meat industry.