B12 Explained: Should Vegans Supplement?

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