B12 — Some Sweet Results

B12 — yikes! This vitamin is like the discussion on protein. Here are a couple of glaring examples, and, of the two presenters, the second one glows more nicely for me.

One link , titled “Symptoms of Vitamin B12 Deficiency”  ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0da1xrELcA&inf_contact_key=810c617563aa49fd33c5f37ec61df5887f90fe0ad494532c21a4686b506f9c6f ) comes at us from a deficient perspective giving what might cause a deficiency and a few of the problems deficiencies present  — a perspective, scientific, maybe, that says, before the first minute of over fourteen minutes of video, how only meat provides B12. The surprising part is yet to come, but it does, and it’s regardless of how much meat you’re eating, you could still have a B12 deficiency. How? Your parietal cells might not be producing enough HCI or intrinsic factor to break the B12 off of the eaten meat.  Often we don’t think of Oysters, Mussels, Salmon, Shrimp or fishy things as meat. The video makes it seem like the idea is beef or cow meat, and after many minutes of the video, we’re brought back to the idea to eat more meat. But I’m not sure how much, and if enough time goes by or enough information is brought in, it’s as if we’ve forgotten that regardless of the meat eaten ( kind or amount ) the absorption of B12 may not be happening. To actually end the connections to the deficiencies, a B12 supplement is introduced: methylcobalamin. Still, we don’t know how much of the supplement to take or even what form to take it in — is it a pill swallowed? Is it an injection? Whatever it is, he’s selling it, so that’s helpful, right? To make a little money for the insight, right?

Aagghh.  So we’re told about the deficiency quickly and with a put down “busting a lot of vegetarian bubbles.” The vitamin and its bioavailability are then spoken of in “adequate” amounts.

So what is adequate? We have to collect that information from somewhere other than the video presenting the deficiencies.