Heirloom vegetables grow more slowly and spoil much more quickly than modern crops. This is because modern crops have less nutritional value - https://jeroenvanbaar.substack.com/p/data-dispatch-4-the-falling-nutritional

That article recommends eating a better diet. Sure. Seems a bit idealist. Here's some more actionable advice: everyone should take a multivitamin and magnesium glycinate. If you live somewhere that gets a winter take vitamin D too.

I'm speaking from experience here, I used to get sick every winter and my skin would get so dry it would crack and bleed. Take your vitamins.

  • BigHaas [he/him]
    hexagon
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    11 months ago

    Mmm I forgot to add krill oil to my list of things to probably take

    Omega 3 fatty acids and it's vegan

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I thought they were assorted animal and plant planktons, fish larvae, crustacean larvae, small crustaceans, and anything else floating by.

        The wiki says there are 380 BILLION tons of krill swimming around in Antarctic waters, and that's just one species.

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          krill are tiny little crustaceans, they do count as plankton but all krill are animals

      • BigHaas [he/him]
        hexagon
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        11 months ago

        you're right, looks like you could buy algal oil which is actually vegan but krill are small shrimp

    • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Probably a good idea, yea. The fat also helps with Vit D absorption/bio-availability, so it's probably an even better idea to take them together (Krill oil + VitD/Multivit)