How To Get Enough B12 As A Vegan

These are my personal tips on getting enough B12 as a vegan. This is important because a deficiency in B12 can lead to some awful symptoms. Keep yourself healthy. I am not a Doctor or any way licensed to say this information, I simply educate myself and share with you all my findings.

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References:
WEBMD: "Vitamin B12 Deficiency Anemia" http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/vitamin-b12-deficiency-anemia-topic-overview

Mayo Clinic: "Vitamin B12″ http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vitamin-B12/NS_patient-vitaminb12/DSECTION=d...

The Vegetarian Resource Group: "Vitamin B12 in the Vegan Diet" http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/b12.htm

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[mikecazzx]

God these comments are so dumb! Intrinsic factor in the digestive system is why people have b12 issues. 39% of america has b12 issues, 3% are vegans in the usa...it aint about being a vegan. You also get b12 from dirt on vegetables grown in healthy soil. Eat animal products and you will get one of all western diet diseases, thats fact

[LCHFinCanada]

@mikecazzx "...39% of america has b12 issues, 3% are vegans in the usa...it aint about being a vegan..."

Current statistics show that only 0.5% of people in the USA are vegan.

And according to studies published in the American Journal of Nutrition and other places, yes 39% of Americans are B12 deficient ...

... but it's interesting you don't point out that the same studies show 80% OF VEGANS ARE B12 DEFICIENT.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/128167­65

Vegans need supplementation.

[Archamitect]

@LCHFinCanada what do you have against vegans? Are you telling me it makes more sense to kill/ process animals and invent ways to freeze their rotting flesh and add salt to said flesh to make it eatable VS eating naturally tasty fruit that grows wild through out the world up in trees which even kids can climb? Meat eaters logic doesn't add up, kids climb trees for fun, they don't murder animals on there own for fun UNLESS they are serial killers! You give Canada a bad name sir.

[LCHFinCanada]

@MrJohni55 "...and dirt from organic veg. cut out the soulsucking middle man..."

So you're not washing your vegetables? If not washing them, you need more than dirt - you need fecal matter, that's also proven... Dirt alone doesn't cut it...

Enjoy your fecal matter, that's the only way YOU'RE getting B12 sir... and even then, probably not enough.

[LCHFinCanada]

@MrJohni55 "...nori,kelp and dirt from organic veg. cut out the soulsucking middle man..."

Interesting that EVERY vegan MD and EVERY vegan nutritionist and EVERY vegan dietician I've ever read, heard or talked-to disagrees with this statement.

You cannot absorb the B12 that's in vegetable product, and that's proven by many research studies. Many vegan advocates such as Jack Norris, and Dr's McDougall, Barnard, Esselstyn, etc., all state you MUST supplement.

[1ghostronin]

Your cute

[1ghostronin]

@LCHFinCanada Or need to eat more soil :P

[zzap999]

@TardsOfParadise Sure you are. You must be forgetting about the fish you ate in your last meal.

[TardsOfParadise]

@zzap999 I am 100% vegan and have been about 70% raw over the past 6 months, and I recently went 100% raw again with much more vegetable intake. It seems to work much better than just fruit.

[MrJohni55]

THERE IS NO NEED FOR SUPPLEMENTS!!!!!

everything can be got from mother earth,and it doesn't come in a little plastic bottle.

nori,kelp and dirt from organic veg. cut out the soulsucking middle man and get back to nature!

[LCHFinCanada]

@90Rush See there's the thing.. it doesn't represent meat-eaters, it represents SAD eaters.

Meat is part of a healthy diet when you eat organic meats in moderation (amounts per individual depends on one's own metabolism, nutritional needs, etc.) and include lots of healthy, non-starchy vegetables and moderate intake of fruit.

Everybody should eliminate processed/refined carbs/sugars and refined oils. Those are the real issue, all science is showing.