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Vitamin B12 is made by neither animals nor plants

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but by microbes

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A whole foods, plantbased diet can help prevent, treat and reverse

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many of our leading causes of death

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But because of current agricultural practices

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it's difficult to obtain vitamin B12 naturally anymore

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Before we started destroying the soil an washing things,

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we used to get it from things like

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unwashed vegetables and well water

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Non- human animals still get some from there

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and some from eating their own feces

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It can also be found in dead animals

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because they get some from the soil and farmers inject them with it

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But since B12 can be destroyed by some forms of heating,

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meat, dairy and eggs aren't necessarily a reliable source

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Both Vegans and non- Vegans can become deficient

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if they don't supplement

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But it's fortified into many everyday products like cereals

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so most people don't have to think about it

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Our bodies can re- absorb it from our intestine

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so it can take years for a deficiency to occur

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As a Vegan you can get it from fortified foods like

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dairy- free milks, yeast flakes or Marmite

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You can also get it from tablets, sprays and injections

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Since credible doctors like Michael Greger recommend

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supplementing B12 as a Vegan,

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the simplest option is to take a weekly B12 supplement

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providing at least 2 500 μg

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”Everybody needs to insure regular, reliable source of vitamin B12

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that's including those people who eat meat

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Yes, they get it from meat, but that's not where you

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wanna get your nutrients

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It's lacking all these wonderful things we want like

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fiber, um-

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And has some things that we don't want like saturated transfats,

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cholesterol ect.

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Just like we can't get the iron in beef without the saturated fat,

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the protein in pork wihout lard,

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the calcium in dairy without hormones,

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we can't get the B12 in animals without also

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consuming stuff we don't want

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like cholesterol

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For example, to get 47 μg of B12 from eggs

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because the absorbtion is so low,

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we'd have to literally eat hundrends of scrambled eggs a day

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200 to 400 eggs a day

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The hygienic source, the safest source

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the healthiest source, the cheapest source

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is vitamin B12 supplements

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The cheapest way to get our B12 is

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probably one 2 500 μg supplement, chewable or liquid supplement

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of ccyanocobalamin once a week

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It's easy to dismiss supplementation as unhealthy and unnatural

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But in the world we live in, this kind of purity

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is illogical and unhealthy in itself

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Keep in mind that clothing is a supplement

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just as a toothbrush is

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But they do as good

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So we shouldn't refuse them

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The reason why we you have to take is that-

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500 years ago we got our B12 the same place

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the deer and antilope did

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We drank stream water

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we-

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pulled up unwashed vegetables and ate them

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And-

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The B12 is made by the soil bacteria

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and they (mumble) in the water

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And because of modern sanitation

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those sources've been taken away from us

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And for that reason you need to take a B12 supplement

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and feel okay about it

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It's okay to take those supplements

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Don't neglect it, it's serious business