Are We All Headed Towards a Vitamin B12 Deficiency?

There seems to be a common thought that vitamin B12, which helps keep the body’s nerve and blood cells healthy, can only be obtained by eating animal-derived foods. Consumption of anything from beef and shrimp to dairy products like cheese, are often the first suggestions given to those who are low in the essential vitamin.

However, there’s an interesting fact about B12: animals don’t make it. At the same time — and many people already are aware of this — neither do plants. Animals get their vitamin B12 from eating foods contaminated with vitamin B12, providing the animal with it and …read more