Guest guest Posted September 3, 2004 Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 I've been vegan for 3 years and 4 months and I'm wondering (and I know it depends partly on the individual) but... does anyone know how long it takes to lose the enzymes needed to digest meat (or meat juices, etc.)? I had a friend who had been vegetarian (not vegan) for about ten years and he got extremely sick (nauseated/stomach ache) after eating a veggie burger in a restaurant. The only thing he oould figure was that they didn't seperate the veggie burgers from the meat on the grill. How long before I might get sick from something like that? Is it months? Years? Can you even get that sick from just a little meat juice from a bbq grill? -Sienna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 as far as i know, no one has addequately ever done a scientific study of this.. mostly its anecdotal and the like some folks claim that its all in the head *shrug* all i know is that, if i eat anything with dairy er meat in it by accident, it'll hit me in less then 15 minutes now..i'm not sure wot sort of reaction that is..it shouldn't be enzymatic...the stomach is acid..enzymes don't come into play really until the small intestines but..its not "all in my head" either as i didn't know the food was posoined until afterwards, when its a case of coming back 2 days later(after the bout of vomiting has subsided) and re-asking pointed questions and finding out "oh yeah, the soup apparantly had chicken stock in it..so sorry..." fraggle ebippity Sep 3, 2004 12:24 PM meat digesting enzymes I've been vegan for 3 years and 4 months and I'm wondering (and I know it depends partly on the individual) but... does anyone know how long it takes to lose the enzymes needed to digest meat (or meat juices, etc.)? I had a friend who had been vegetarian (not vegan) for about ten years and he got extremely sick (nauseated/stomach ache) after eating a veggie burger in a restaurant. The only thing he oould figure was that they didn't seperate the veggie burgers from the meat on the grill. How long before I might get sick from something like that? Is it months? Years? Can you even get that sick from just a little meat juice from a bbq grill? -SiennaTo send an email to - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2004 Report Share Posted September 5, 2004 hmmm, very interesting. yeah, i just wasn't finding anything definitive on the net about it. the other day, i was with my family and they were grilling a huge steak on a really tiny bbq with very few coals. when they were done, they moved their steak off for me and i didn't know what to do. i didn't want to get sick, but i also didn't want to make a scene. so i took the chance and put my veggie dog on the grill. i didn't get sick, thank god. but it did make me wonder if i ever will in a situation like that... maybe further down the road. anyway, thanks for your 2 cents! , fraggle <EBbrewpunx@e...> wrote: > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2004 Report Share Posted September 5, 2004 thats why i invented aluminum foil hahahahhahahaha ebippity Sep 5, 2004 9:05 AM Re: meat digesting enzymes hmmm, very interesting. yeah, i just wasn't finding anything definitive on the net about it. the other day, i was with my family and they were grilling a huge steak on a really tiny bbq with very few coals. when they were done, they moved their steak off for me and i didn't know what to do. i didn't want to get sick, but i also didn't want to make a scene. so i took the chance and put my veggie dog on the grill. i didn't get sick, thank god. but it did make me wonder if i ever will in a situation like that... maybe further down the road. anyway, thanks for your 2 cents! , fraggle <EBbrewpunx@e...> wrote:> To send an email to - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2004 Report Share Posted September 5, 2004 I wasn't aware that you lose the ability to digest meat, as you may do for milk. It could well be that there was bacteria around that made your friend ill. Jo I've been vegan for 3 years and 4 months and I'm wondering (and I know it depends partly on the individual) but... does anyone know how long it takes to lose the enzymes needed to digest meat (or meat juices, etc.)? I had a friend who had been vegetarian (not vegan) for about ten years and he got extremely sick (nauseated/stomach ache) after eating a veggie burger in a restaurant. The only thing he oould figure was that they didn't seperate the veggie burgers from the meat on the grill. How long before I might get sick from something like that? Is it months? Years? Can you even get that sick from just a little meat juice from a bbq grill? -SiennaTo send an email to - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2004 Report Share Posted September 6, 2004 ebippity wrote: > > I've been vegan for 3 years and 4 months and I'm wondering (and I > know it depends partly on the individual) but... does anyone know > how long it takes to lose the enzymes needed to digest meat (or meat > juices, etc.)? Anecdotally, I vaguely remember hearing something about someone who ate meat when they weren't used to it, and it made them ill. I don't know what the physical mechanism for it would be, but it makes intuitive sense that if you got " out of practice " at eating dead animals, your intestines might not know what to do with the next piece of meat you ate. I wouldn't expect you to lose the enzymes through lack of use, though. Lactose intolerance, frex, is AFAIK genetic. And if your genes code for a protein, you won't lose the capacity to make that protein unless you lose the gene, and that just doesn't happen . I haven't heard anything about the odd drop of meat causing problems ... perhaps that's down to infection. We're not going to have that much exposure to meat-vectored pathogens, so perhaps we're more vulnerable to *them* when some animal fat drops onto our veggie burgers? Only an idea. It's plausible, but that doesn't mean it's true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 Well, you could also wrap the veggie dog in foil or put it on a piece of foil on the grill. It won't get those grill marks, but you will avoid the possible " meat vibes " sara , " ebippity " <ebippity> wrote: > hmmm, very interesting. yeah, i just wasn't finding anything > definitive on the net about it. the other day, i was with my family > and they were grilling a huge steak on a really tiny bbq with very > few coals. when they were done, they moved their steak off for me > and i didn't know what to do. i didn't want to get sick, but i also > didn't want to make a scene. so i took the chance and put my veggie > dog on the grill. i didn't get sick, thank god. but it did make me > wonder if i ever will in a situation like that... maybe further down > the road. anyway, thanks for your 2 cents! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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