Question for the What Would Julieanna Do? Q&A:
If a whole food, plant-based diet is ideal and natural, why can’t we get vitamin B12 from plants?
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Related Links:
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Position Paper on Vegetarian Diets
Vegetarian Resource Group Vitamin B12 in the Vegan Diet
NutritionFacts.org Daily Source of B12
NutritionFacts.org Vegan Epidemic
VeganHealth.org Vitamin B12: Are You Getting It?
NutritionFacts.org Which Type of B12 is Best?
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements Vitamin B12 Fact Sheet
This Post Has 35 Comments
Thanks for the video 🙂
It's real difficult to concentrate on what you're saying because the music is too loud and also annoying.
Julieanna, lose the music! 🙁
Yes, please no music. It was so hard to understand. The music is too loud. Thanks for great info!!
I agree w/ Wendi and John, the music is too loud.
Great video and advice keep up the great work.
Great info…music too loud
No more music! I promise!
I will not use music anymore! Thanks for the comment!
Thank you, Jeff!
Sorry for the distraction! No more music!
OK…I am grateful for the comment! No more music!
Thanks, Jeannie!
Thank you, Danielle!
I recently been eating vegan but didn't know about B12 deficiency issue. Glad I came across this video. I started a week ago, so tomorrow getting my B12
I am glad you found it too! Congrats on your new vegan lifestyle!
Do any these microorganisms & B12 survive the processing of animal feed or are the animals getting supplements? Couldn't meat eaters be deficient too if the feed is too processed & not supplemented? From what I've seen in videos, the food the animals eat doesn't resemble anything plant-like anymore & is mainly used to bulk the poor animals up quickly for slaughter. Nutrition is not the main priority for these factory farms.
In this video you mention that we should supplement with 2000 mcg per week, averaging 286 mcg per day. However according to Health Canada we only need 2.4 mcg per day. Is there a reason you suggest more?
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/alt_formats/hpfb-dgpsa/pdf/nutrition/dri_tables-eng.pdf
Good question. We recommend more because absorption is not always optimal.
Interesting question and I do not know the answer. Although, of course, I agree about the factory farms…
Yep! Sooo loud music?!
You don't mention Nutritional Yeast as a source. I don't use a lot but use it often, sprinkling it on meals like I would have used Parm Cheese years ago. What do you think?
Laura today nobody can have enough B12 not only vegan…..for one reason…no matter if they give the animals lots of food supplemented with B12 ….it would need the animal a normal life span to store the b12 they do not utilize in their tissues but they make them live so briefly ….it is ridiculous…The point is the super small concentration of b12 should come from a healthy untouched soil and crops. Today it does not exist anymore even for organic food. Soo all we have left is supplementation no matter the diet. And I d like to point another thing….every time people think they get special nutrients from animals I remind them they could get the same by eating another human being. This is not because how nature intended to be but because animals in general (us included) can synthesize "nutrients" we need for ourselves ….cholesterol level is another example of a different nature. WE AS ANIMALS SYNTHESIZE CHOLESTEROL FOR OUR BODY NEEDS thus if we eat each other that is a surplus right there!!! No wonder! ….sorry for my sloppy english it is not my mother tongue ! 🙂
I'm very wary of vitamin brands because I didn't think they were regulated by the FDA so they could put literally anything in the supplements. My question is: Which B12 vitamin brand can I trust? Which one do you use?
Music is like dope for the brain too, I don´t listen music either. I eat a sardine every now and then to get my B12, just in case.
I have studied nutrition for 40 yrs and they say when you take B12 supplementation your body will stop manufacturing it in your intestines. That does not seem beneficial for us over all,
Julieanna, how do you explain a Vegan B-12 supplement that is completely plant based? How does it have B-12 in it? Confused. I just bought "KIND Organics" Vegan whole-food b-12 supplement. It is a spray. So my question is, is this a gimmick by Vitamin manufacturers because the general public just doesnt know that B-12 is found in animals products. And what about B-12 shots? What do those have in them? I havent tried their vitamins yet, but I won't go back to those cheap mainstream brands that have heavy metals and lead and even toxic levels of Vitamin A found in Centrum Brand. Thanks for the vids!
How many cases of B-12 deficiency are documented in vegans, when there is no other compounding factor? I understand theory, but the real world sometimes disproves theory. Case in point, Vitamin D is produced when the skin is exposed to sunshine, yet surfers in Hawaii often test low for it. Informed opinion is a good start, but I'd like to see the documented cases of low B-12 causing a problem in otherwise healthy vegans; preferably in a respected medical jounal.
B12 comes from earth and bacteria, not animals. Then people get ti from eating the herbivorous animal. Cut out the middle man.
'they say'? how about some studies to back that up? I have never seen this before. It actually can take up to 7 years to deplete the B12 storage i n your liver. B12 deficiency won't usually show up until about 5 years of not consuming it.
Nutritional yeast is a different form of B12 and we need th eother form as well
The B12 Vitamin I have is 1000 mcg each and it says take one a day. You recommend 2000 per week total…..so am I taking too much?
What are the symptoms of B12 deficiency?
Does anyone have a good brand of B12 to purchase?
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