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What supermodel Gisele ate to cure her depression

From Nina Teicholz’s SubStack,
https://unsettledscience.substack.c...s-this-week-ddd

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It’s hard to believe that supermodels or any of the super-rich über-class, with their access to elite everything—coaches, doctors, eye creams—can be misled on something so basic as healthy eating, but maybe the greater the gild, the more the groupthink. And for some years now, the groupthink on diet has trended vegan. All the celebrity vegans…sigh, too many to name.

Now, however, some are quietly acknowledging the deficits of this way of eating, including deficiencies in such nutrients as vitamin B12, calcium, iodine and iron, as Robert Downing, Jr. reluctantly disclosed earlier this year. And Gisele Bündchen is now acknowledging that she developed iron deficiency anemia on the “whole foods, plant-based” approach she followed for years with her former husband, Tom Brady.

Gisele, who is currently on the publicity circuit promoting a new cookbook, says that her lifestyle and some shoulder surgeries left her depressed. “She was told that she needed to change her diet, get eight hours of sleep, and exercise daily,” The Cut reports. “Once she did that, she said she became a different person…And poof! There goes the depression.” Since we can assume that a supermodel and wife of one of the greatest athletes of all time was already well-informed on the importance of exercise and sleep, we’re going to assume it was the diet that was the transformative agent for her mental health.

The news we’re all clamoring for--obviously--is, what does this impossibly beautiful and now more emotionally resilient woman eat? Gisele gives very few details. We learn that she never consumes white sugar, calling the ingredient “poison,” although she seems to eat plenty of fruit and whole grains. She eats eggs for breakfast—a frittata or omelet— to consume enough protein. And after breakfast? She goes vague…maybe a smoothie, she says, or…who knows, maybe, like many supermodels, she lives on air. But here’s what we see in the pictures: some eggs…and what’s that? Steak?!