B12

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B12 is a necessary vitamin that vegans do not get as they don't consume any

meat, eggs or dairy products. Vegetarians do so they don't need the supplement.

You can get B12 in your regular vitamins (cobalamin is the best form), but the

" under your tongue " (sublingual lozenge) is assimilated by your body better.

Your body doesn't make this particular vitamin so you have to use outside

sources...it used to be on our foods in the dirt...LOL... and is exclusively

synthesized by bacteria and found primarily in meat, eggs and dairy products.

You could just not wash your veggies and if the right bacteria is on it that

will work, however, you really don't want to do that as you may then ingest

e-coli too along with a lot of other little meanies or chemicals. You need very

little B12 and as a matter of fact your body stores it and reabsorbs it and it

takes a few years to exhaust that storage. However if you do the consequences

are serious and can't be reversed. There are different ranges for the B12

intake...I just kind of look at it as getting 3 mcg a day is safe...and most of

the tablets out there are way more than that...like 1,000 or more. So I take it

a couple of times a week knowing that my body will just dump an excess anyway. I

don't know why they put so much in the supplements but they do and it isn't

thought to be toxic. Some people rely on food stuffs to get it like Red Star

Nutritional Yeast ( a lot of foods are fortified with it) but they are not sure

that is adequate or that all absorb it well so I go for the vitamin. I use one

put out by VegLife Vegan B12, it has 1,000 mcg the lowest I could find and it

has 400 mcg folic acid. There are 50 lozenges and $5.25 (US). Since I only take

it 2 times a week it seems cheaper and tastier than some of the other B12

sources that may not be so reliable. It uses Stevia leaf extract for the

sweetener.

 

You can look it up on the net for more information...a short one is:

http://www.vegsoc.org/info/b12.html

linda

" Whatever you do will be insignificant and it is very important that you do it. "

Mohandas Gandhi

 

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Samantha Lea

Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:51 PM

RE: Re: Yah Veggies! and brown rice and yeast

flakes

 

 

What does the B12 do? I've never heard of the under the tongue stuff -

I'll have to look for it.

Samantha

 

If you are a vegan please do not forget to take B12...the kind that

melts in your mouth under your tongue. It is very cheap.