A deficiency of vitamin B-12 (aka Cobalmin) is very serious and causes severe health conditions that masquerade as any of a multitude of psychological, neurological, gastrointestinal, immmune related (and many many other organ system) abnormalities. From coma to psychosis, from bleeding tongue to skin lesions from head to toe, from tingling and numbness in your hands to loss of muscular control. Vitamin B-12 is absolutely vital.

If you never, or rarely eat animal products AND you are not supplementing with Vitamin B-12… it is just a matter of when, not if, you will develop symptoms of B-12 deficiency. This vitamin is not produced by humans or animals, for that matter. Instead, it is produced by microbes and we would have picked it up in ages past from water, or incompletely washed food.

If you are vegetarian but eat eggs and dairy, you should be aware that 50% of ovo/lacto vegetarians who don’t supplement with B-12 are still deficient. In fact, among those that don’t supplement, studies have shown low B-12 levels in roughly 1/3 of the meat eaters!

So, bottom line – B-12 is CHEAP but CRITICAL! Follow the formula…

CHEAP + CRITICAL = REQUIRED

Don’t be a dummy. Supplement B-12 regardless of your diet.