<story><title>Comparison of Postsurgical Scars Between Vegan and Omnivore Patients</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32769530/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>When I was younger and training very heavily in some sports, I experimented a bit with different diets. Bottom-line the more meat heavy my diet, the faster I would heal from injuries -- radically so. For a while I went on a low-carb diet and ate a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; heavy animal protein diet. I shed pounds, had absolutely unstoppable stamina, had far &lt;i&gt;fewer&lt;/i&gt; injuries, stretching improved, basically never bruised, and healed from sports injuries that would have taken weeks in days. I felt like Wolverine.&lt;p&gt;I also felt like a grease grenade all the time and got tired of the diet which is why I stopped, but it was definitely superhuman for me.&lt;p&gt;I felt the worst in this sports context was when I experimented with a vegan&amp;#x2F;vegetarian diets. The effects were virtually the exact opposite. I&amp;#x27;m sure with a nutritionist and more dedication I could have overcome many of these issues, but I found building a decent diet harder and required more effort.</text></comment>
<story><title>Comparison of Postsurgical Scars Between Vegan and Omnivore Patients</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32769530/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tpoacher</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve actually noticed this effect on myself too. It&amp;#x27;s very pronounced in fact.&lt;p&gt;I have a bad habit of biting my cuticles. I also happen to observe lent, effectively going vegan for 50 days every year.&lt;p&gt;Typically my cuticles heal the next day, or two at most. But every single time I enter lent, suddenly my cuticles take more than a week to heal the same amount. The difference is very obvious, to me at least.</text></comment>