Beyond Bone Broth – Food Choice and Philosophies – Part 1

The motivation, and acceptance of dietary supplements, have well-established, marketable objectives of optimizing our nutrition, overall health, enhancing function and performance of body, specific organs, and now more refined and sophisticated scientifically, various key metabolic, epigenetic, and physiological mechanisms.  

In our media-dominant society, an ever-growing impact influencing formulation, strategic use of existing and new ingredients is to recognize and be more sensitive to the conspicuous and growing power and the intersection of underlying dietary philosophies, current health objectives,  and preferred food choice practices.

Bone health can exemplify this point very nicely –we cannot divorce ourselves from the forces of dietary philosophies that have a huge interest and consequence for adults in designing products and marketing guidance.

Very apparent, the growing Vegan Evolution, as well as the broader established practices of vegetarianism in our modern culture cannot be underestimated and more appropriately should be called a resurging philosophical food choice and food attitude “revolution”.

It’s rapidly changing the food industry even with the mega-giants such as Coke, Pepsi, fast foods,  and it’s celebrity-studded. 

Additionally, based on food choices that strictly oppose all animals used as foods or the use of animal food products such as eggs and milk,  in strengthening its position and logic, strict Veganism could have significant implications and compelling arguments in the better use of natural resources and its effects on climate by potentially reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.

Most interestingly using “bone-health”  as our pivot-point topic, growing exponentially in parallel and contrasting to the rise of veganism is the new marketing and acceptance of various animal products as key, novel ingredients that are also changing the food and cosmetic industry.

Trending and opposing diet philosophies and food plans to veganism such as Paleo, AIP, Gundry, etc liberally prescribe various animal products, meats, and even full-fat grass-fed milk and cheese or butter for optimal healing over a number of their  “non-acceptable”  list of certain fruits or vegetables that would be perfectly acceptable and encouraged by vegans or vegetarians, such as beans, lentils, wheat,  certain nightshade vegetables like potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, citrus,  etc.

Aggressive marketing of ingredient byproducts from beef, chicken, or fish, such as tissue-restoration- anti-aging collagens as well as the surge of bone-healthy “bone broths” from these very same animals that would be repugnant to veganism,  are rapidly expanding and indirectly influencing dietary supplement strategies as well.

Part Two of “Beyond Bone Broth” will delve into the mechanisms of action of bone health and bone loss and help identify those ingredients that can be protective for vegans and non-vegans as part of a nutritional strategy that could work in conjunction with established pharmacological therapeutics as a “complimentary approach” or if early enough with other essential lifestyle considerations successfully implemented, perhaps obviating the need for pharmaceuticals altogether.