Welcome to the Wednesday episode of The Angriest Trainer. Â Today, Vinnie Tortorich and Andy Schreiber discuss essential vitamin B12…why it is important, why vegans run a deficiency risk and the best way to take it as a supplement…
WHY VITAMIN B12 IS IMPORTANT
- One of the essential vitamins
- Deficiency is serious…affects blood cells and energy
- Plentiful in animal foods
VEGANS AND B12
- Vitamin B12 does not occur naturally in any plant-based food
- The only exception are organisms that attach themselves to plant-based food
FORMS OF B12
- Vast majority of supplements come in the form of cyanocobalamin
- Vitamin is bound together by cyanide molecule
- It must be converted to methylcobalamin in liver
- And it takes energy to flush out of liver
