Questions Regarding Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science

With regard to individual foods, we can highlight certain advantages of plant-based nutrition. When humans obtain their protein from plant-based foods, which admittedly requires harder work, they develop strengths that refresh their nervous system. Much of what humanity would face if meat-based nutrition became predominant can be avoided by giving preference to plant-based foods. We can see how contradictory the effects of vegetarian and animal-based foods are. To illustrate this, we can say the following: Let us look at the physical process under the influence of meat-based foods. The red blood cells become heavy and darker, and the blood has a greater tendency to clot. Salts and phosphates are more easily deposited. With a predominantly plant-based diet, the blood cells' tendency to settle is much lower. It becomes possible for humans to prevent their blood from becoming too dark in color. This enables them to control the connection between their thoughts from their ego, whereas heavy blood is an expression of their slavish devotion to what is incorporated into their astral body through animal food. This image shows us, as an external expression of truth, what we wanted to say. Human beings become stronger internally through their relationship with the plant world. Through meat-based nutrition, they incorporate something that gradually becomes foreign matter, which goes its own way within them. This can be avoided if the diet consists primarily of plants. When the substances within us go their own way, they exert forces that cause hysterical and epileptic states. Because the nervous system receives these impregnations from outside, it succumbs to various nervous disorders. Thus we see how, in a certain sense, “man is what he eats.”