question for vegetarians | B12

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Thanks for the tip. Seems like there's not much you can eat for B12, it has

to be a supplement. Dang! Here's something I found online:

 

Vitamin B12 is a member of the vitamin B complex. It contains cobalt, and so

is also known as cobalamin. It is exclusively synthesised by bacteria and is

found primarily in meat, eggs and dairy products. There has been

considerable research into proposed plant sources of vitamin B12. Fermented

soya products, seaweeds, and algae such as spirulina have all been suggested

as containing significant B12. However, the present consensus is that any

B12 present in plant foods is likely to be unavailable to humans and so

these foods should not be relied upon as safe sources. Many vegan foods are

supplemented with B12. Vitamin B12 is necessary for the synthesis of red

blood cells, the maintenance of the nervous system, and growth and

development in children. Deficiency can cause anaemia. Vitamin B12

neuropathy, involving the degeneration of nerve fibres and irreversible

neurological damage, can also occur.

 

Also they said fortified breakfast cereals are a good source.

 

sat nam!

ranjit

 

>Christine Naugle <cris

>Kundaliniyoga

>Kundaliniyoga

>Re: question for vegetarians

>Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:20:51 -0400

>

>Vitamin B12 is a biggy in meat; a deficiency causes anemia

>I think there are some vegetarian forms of B12

>

 

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[Guest guest]

Dear friends:

 

>From "Conscious Eating" (Dr. Gabriel Cousins), vitamin B-12 deficiency is

actually extremely rare, and is typically caused not by a dietary lack but

by lack of absorption in the dietary tract. He mentions that pregnant &

lactating women seem to be susceptible to this deficiency, regardless of

whether they are vegetarian or not.

 

David Wolfe, a leader in raw-food work, follows up on Cousins' work and says

that the primary cause is poor or absent intestinal flora, and mentions that

sugar is an antibiotic, so a long-term high-sugar diet (refined or fruit)

can damage your intestinal flora levels, as can high-protein diets.

 

One problem is that we are taught to wash everything very thoroughly, and

the microbes present in soil help to replenish the intestinal flora needed

to absorb B12. Certainly store-bought food needs to be washed thoroughly

(mold, pollution, toxins), but food grown yourself or picked yourself at an

organic farm can be left unwashed, safely, to help supplement those helpful

microbes.

 

Further evidence to support this is found in Victor Herbert's studies

published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, who describes the

work of James Halsted, who studied a group of Iranian vegans who did not

experience any B12 deficiency, and found that, generally speaking, their

vegetables were not washed or not well washed, and went on to discover that

vegetarians who did not practice thorough washing of their foods were likely

to be untroubled by B12 deficiency.

 

Blessings,

Sadhant

 

PS: Burdock root is very high in B-12, as are seaweeds (dulse, nori, etc),

and spirulina and blue-green algae.

 

PPS: Getting some fermented foods like (raw)sauerkraut from time to time can

help replenish intestinal flora.

[Guest guest]

" The largest amounts vitamin B12 are found in brewer¨s yeast, clams, eggs,

herring, kidney, liver, mackerel, milk, dairy products, and seafood. vitamin

B12 is not found in many vegetables; it is available only from sea

vegetables, such as dulse, kelp, kombu and nori, and soybeans and soy

products. It is also present in the herbs alfalfa, bladderwrack, and hops."

 

>From Prescrition for Nutritional Healing, Dr. Balch M.D.

 

Sat Nam

 

Rafael

 

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