Vitamin B12: Are you Deficient?
Vitamin B12 is one of the top 5 important supplements in a balanced diet. Your system requires B12 in order to prevent anemia and produce red blood cells.
Primarily, B12 is found in animal products such as cheese, eggs and milk. For those of you that are Vegan, you should look for food enriched with B12 or take a high quailty supplement.
How do you know if you are deficient in Vit B12?
If you aren't eating any of the above mentioned foods and feel weakness, shortness of breath, dizziness, fatigue, numbness, heart palpitations, bleeding gums, mouth sores, nausea, poor appetite and diarrhea, you might be vitamin B12 deficient.
Symptoms may present themselves after years of b12 deficiency, and usually don't manifest until years later. A deficiency of B12 can produce pernicious anemia, which can lead to Alzheimers, memory loss, confusion and even dementia.
Seniors absorb the supplement better in the sublingual form. Malabsorption of the vitamin is another reason for the deficiency. Example, to receive optimal benefits from supplementing with vitamin B12 you would combine with folic acid and vitamin c, which will assist the absorption.
How do you know what the optimal amount is to prevent a deficiency in vitamin B12?
After referring to the National Institute of Health and doing some personal research, I've concluded the following.
-.4 mcg- 0-6 months
-.5mcg- 7-12 months
-.9 mcg- 1-3 years
-1.2mcg- 4-8 years
-1.8mcg- 9-13 years
-2.4mcg- age 14- older
-2.6mcg- pregnant adolescent females
-2.8mcg- lactating females
-25-100mcg- Adults over 50 (unless consistently eating vitamin B12-fortified foods)
Dosages may vary slightly from experts in the field, but two parts were clear: Our bodies were built to absorb low levels of vitamin B12 at dosages between .1mcg-1mcg per meal.
Vitamin B12 deficiency also depends on environmental factors. For example, if we consume chlorinated water on a daily basis, B12 absorption would be low or diminished based on the toxic invasion on the body.
We also have to take into consideration the pesticides and toxins that our plants and animals are consuming and figure out if that is also causing Vit B12 deficiency. - 17274
Primarily, B12 is found in animal products such as cheese, eggs and milk. For those of you that are Vegan, you should look for food enriched with B12 or take a high quailty supplement.
How do you know if you are deficient in Vit B12?
If you aren't eating any of the above mentioned foods and feel weakness, shortness of breath, dizziness, fatigue, numbness, heart palpitations, bleeding gums, mouth sores, nausea, poor appetite and diarrhea, you might be vitamin B12 deficient.
Symptoms may present themselves after years of b12 deficiency, and usually don't manifest until years later. A deficiency of B12 can produce pernicious anemia, which can lead to Alzheimers, memory loss, confusion and even dementia.
Seniors absorb the supplement better in the sublingual form. Malabsorption of the vitamin is another reason for the deficiency. Example, to receive optimal benefits from supplementing with vitamin B12 you would combine with folic acid and vitamin c, which will assist the absorption.
How do you know what the optimal amount is to prevent a deficiency in vitamin B12?
After referring to the National Institute of Health and doing some personal research, I've concluded the following.
-.4 mcg- 0-6 months
-.5mcg- 7-12 months
-.9 mcg- 1-3 years
-1.2mcg- 4-8 years
-1.8mcg- 9-13 years
-2.4mcg- age 14- older
-2.6mcg- pregnant adolescent females
-2.8mcg- lactating females
-25-100mcg- Adults over 50 (unless consistently eating vitamin B12-fortified foods)
Dosages may vary slightly from experts in the field, but two parts were clear: Our bodies were built to absorb low levels of vitamin B12 at dosages between .1mcg-1mcg per meal.
Vitamin B12 deficiency also depends on environmental factors. For example, if we consume chlorinated water on a daily basis, B12 absorption would be low or diminished based on the toxic invasion on the body.
We also have to take into consideration the pesticides and toxins that our plants and animals are consuming and figure out if that is also causing Vit B12 deficiency. - 17274
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