The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

What primal types can learn from plant-based diets and dieters. I joke around a lot and give them

hell, but I have love and respect for plant-based diets and the people who eat them. These folks

come at health from an entirely different place, and it's true. I don't think their diets are optimal.

I think they get a lot wrong. They often misconstrue what primal is all about.

I've even received threats from some of the less grounded members of the community,

though I know that these are outliers, the extremists, and I never took them seriously.

But I'd also suggest plant-based dieters get a lot right, more than you'd think.

I'm not talking about the postatarians, of course, or the junk food vegans or the vegetarians

who subsist entirely on pizza and tofurkey. I'm talking about the ones eating loads of veggies,

actual vegetarians and vegans who eat actual plants. They can learn a

ton from us, that's true. We can learn a lot from them too. Today I wanted to discuss seven

things I've learned and that we can learn from plant-based diets. Number one, How to maximize nutrition from subpar sources.

Being a vegan is hard work.

Being a healthy vegan is even harder.

We primal types have it easy.

We can really let the nutrient density fall by the wayside because we can always fall

back on a few pastured eggs, a quarter pound of

beef liver, some wild salmon, a good steak, some oysters and muscles. Someone on a plant-based

diet doesn't have that luxury. They can't rely on weigh protein or ground beef for high-quality

bioavailable protein. They have to combine legumes and grains to get the right mix of amino acids.

They can't get all the zinc and iron they'll ever need from a half dozen oysters.

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