One more nail in the vegan diet coffin, but they’re not the only group at risk
Vitamin B12 is known as the ?energy vitamin,? and it is essential for many critical functions in your body, including energy production, supporting your immune system, and helping to regulate the formation of red blood cells. Recent studies from the US Framingham trial show that one in four adults in the US are deficient in this vitally important nutrient and nearly half of the population has suboptimal blood levels.
Bioavailable (absorbable) Vitamin B12 is present only in animal sources of food, which is one of the many reasons to stay away from a strict vegetarian or a vegan diet. In India, which is primarily a vegetarian based culture, current studies show about 80% of the adults are deficient in vitamin B12. But vegetarians are not the only ones at risk.
The older you get the more likely you are to have a vitamin B12 deficiency. The two ways that you become deficient in vitamin B12 are from not getting enough in your diet and from losing the ability to absorb it.
The older you get the more your digestive system breaks down, especially if you have been following the standard American diet. Specifically the lining of your stomach gradually loses its ability to produce hydrochloric acid which releases vitamin B 12 from your food. The use of antacids or anti ulcer drugs will also lower your stomach acid secretion and decrease your ability to absorb vitamin B 12. Infection with Helicobactor pylori, a common contributor to stomach ulcers, can also result in vitamin B12 deficiency.
However the main cause of vitamin B 12 deficiency is a term researchers call food-cobalamin malabsorption syndrome. Cobalamin is the scientific term for vitamin B12. This typically results when your stomach lining loses its ability to produce intrinsic factor which is a protein that binds to vitamin B12 and allows your body to absorb it at the end of your small intestine.
Mercola.com
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Mercola? Do your own research before taking someone else’s word as gold.
I’ve done more research than you can imagine. Take you’re own advice.
research implies more than copying crap off of web sites. so defensive for someone so educated.
This article is just wrong. Check the link posted above. B12 is not only present in animals. B12 is actually only produced by bacteria which animals eat.
You can get B12 from non animal products like nutritional yeast, and many other foods are fortified. Vegans should take a multi-vitamin to fill this gap.
I would ask the author to please do some more research before proliferating another vegan myth.
Hahah author says he does his research, yet he ends up looking like a biased douchebag who doesn’t do any research. Good job Mike Furci, you are officially a dick.
Clearly this idiot hasn’t ever heard of the American Dietetic Association and their July 2009 position paper which states that Veganism is acceptable for every stage of life.
Tell us, Mike, how much is the meat industry funding this post?
Also,
“Take you?re own advice.”
We’re working with a real wordsmith here.
“Facts” is an opinion. Put your Ego in check!
Don’t seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions.
-Zen
Who did Mike and Anthony tick off this last year? It seems to have spilled onto the comments section for the last couple of articles they have done. I would suspect M&A have grabbed someone’s business, girls or candy away from these child-like douches.