B12 deficiency symptoms

A clinical deficiency can lead to anemia or damage to the nervous system. Most vegetarians consume enough B12 to avoid clinical defects. Two subgroups of vegans are particularly prone to B12 deficiency: long-term vegetarians avoid the use of common fortified foods [such as raw vegan or longevity vegans] and breastfed B12 breastfed babies.

Typical symptoms in adults include energy loss, tingling, numbness, reduced sensitivity to pain or stress, blurred vision, abnormal gait, tongue pain, poor memory, confusion, hallucinations and personality changes. These symptoms usually develop over a period of months to a year and are then thought to be caused by a B12 deficiency, and they are usually reversible when given B12. However, there is no complete and reliable set of symptoms and there is a permanent injury to adults with B12 deficiency. If you suspect a problem, get a skilled diagnosis from your doctor, as each of these symptoms may also be caused by problems other than B12 deficiency.

Babies usually show symptoms faster than adults. Lack of B12 may result in loss of energy and appetite and growth. If not corrected in time, this may progress to coma or death. Again, there is no identical pattern of symptoms. Babies are more susceptible to permanent damage than adults. Some people are fully recovered, but others show a slow development.

The risk of these groups alone is enough to give all vegetarians a consistent message about the importance of B12 and set a positive example. In vegan infants or unsuspecting adults, every case of B12 deficiency is a tragedy and jewels are compromised.

Is there a vegan alternative to B12 fortified foods and supplements?

If you choose not to use fortified foods or supplements for any reason, you should realize that you are conducting a dangerous experiment – many people have tried this experiment before and the success rate has been low. If you are an adult who is neither breast-feeding, pregnant or pregnant, and wants to test a potential source of B12 that has not been proven to be inadequate, then this may be a reasonable course of action, with appropriate precautions. For your own protection, you should arrange to check your B12 status every year. If homocysteine ​​or MMA is even moderately elevated, then if you stick to it, it will endanger your health.

If you are breastfed, pregnant or want to get pregnant or adults are considering doing this kind of experiment with your child, don't take risks. This is totally unreasonable.

Direct research on vegetarians has shown that B12 claims to have insufficient sources, including human intestinal bacteria, spirulina, dried laver, barley grass and most other algae. Some studies of raw food vegetarians have shown that raw food does not provide special protection.

The report that B12 has measured in food is not sufficient to make the food a reliable source of B12. It is difficult to distinguish true B12 from analogs that may disrupt B12 metabolism. Even if true B12 is present in the food, if the analog is present in an amount comparable to the actual B12, it may be rendered ineffective. The B12 source has only one reliable test – does it consistently prevent and correct defects? Anyone who proposes a particular food as a source of B12 should be challenged to present such evidence.

Natural, healthy and compassionate diet

For true health, diet must be better than just isolated individuals, and must allow all 6 billion people to thrive and achieve sustainable coexistence with many other species that form the “living planet”. From this perspective, the natural adaptation of most [and possibly all] humans in the modern world is a vegan diet. There is no naturalness to the hatred of modern factory farming and the attempt to reduce life and feel the life of the machine. When choosing to use fortified foods or B12 supplements, vegetarians are taking B12 from the same source as other animals on the planet – microbes – without causing pain or environmental damage to any infectious person.

Vegans should know B12 was originally published on Spring