Vitamin B12 is made by neither animals nor plants
but by microbes
A whole foods, plantbased diet can help prevent, treat and reverse
many of our leading causes of death
But because of current agricultural practices
it's difficult to obtain vitamin B12 naturally anymore
Before we started destroying the soil an washing things,
we used to get it from things like
unwashed vegetables and well water
Non- human animals still get some from there
and some from eating their own feces
It can also be found in dead animals
because they get some from the soil and farmers inject them with it
But since B12 can be destroyed by some forms of heating,
meat, dairy and eggs aren't necessarily a reliable source
Both Vegans and non- Vegans can become deficient
if they don't supplement
But it's fortified into many everyday products like cereals
so most people don't have to think about it
Our bodies can re- absorb it from our intestine
so it can take years for a deficiency to occur
As a Vegan you can get it from fortified foods like
dairy- free milks, yeast flakes or Marmite
You can also get it from tablets, sprays and injections
Since credible doctors like Michael Greger recommend
supplementing B12 as a Vegan,
the simplest option is to take a weekly B12 supplement
providing at least 2 500 μg
”Everybody needs to insure regular, reliable source of vitamin B12
that's including those people who eat meat
Yes, they get it from meat, but that's not where you
wanna get your nutrients
It's lacking all these wonderful things we want like
fiber, um-
And has some things that we don't want like saturated transfats,
cholesterol ect.
Just like we can't get the iron in beef without the saturated fat,
the protein in pork wihout lard,
the calcium in dairy without hormones,
we can't get the B12 in animals without also
consuming stuff we don't want
like cholesterol
For example, to get 47 μg of B12 from eggs
because the absorbtion is so low,
we'd have to literally eat hundrends of scrambled eggs a day
200 to 400 eggs a day
The hygienic source, the safest source
the healthiest source, the cheapest source
is vitamin B12 supplements
The cheapest way to get our B12 is
probably one 2 500 μg supplement, chewable or liquid supplement
of ccyanocobalamin once a week
It's easy to dismiss supplementation as unhealthy and unnatural
But in the world we live in, this kind of purity
is illogical and unhealthy in itself
Keep in mind that clothing is a supplement
just as a toothbrush is
But they do as good
So we shouldn't refuse them
The reason why we you have to take is that-
500 years ago we got our B12 the same place
the deer and antilope did
We drank stream water
we-
pulled up unwashed vegetables and ate them
And-
The B12 is made by the soil bacteria
and they (mumble) in the water
And because of modern sanitation
those sources've been taken away from us
And for that reason you need to take a B12 supplement
and feel okay about it
It's okay to take those supplements
Don't neglect it, it's serious business