{"id":14736,"date":"2020-01-08T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=14736"},"modified":"2019-12-27T13:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T18:29:17","slug":"update-on-vitamin-b12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/08\/update-on-vitamin-b12\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Vitamin B12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/vitamin-b12-as-methylcobalamin-or-cyanocobalamin\/\">earlier\nblog post<\/a> on vitamin B12 for older adults, I wrote that \u201cvitamin B12\nis poorly absorbed from eggs.\u201d Thanks to a reader who pointed out that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/31500393\">recent\nstudy<\/a> found that vitamin B12 absorption from eggs is higher than was\npreviously thought. This study used a different method to examine vitamin B12\nabsorption than has been used in the past. Despite this finding, it\u2019s still <a href=\"https:\/\/ods.od.nih.gov\/factsheets\/VitaminB12-HealthProfessional\/#h3\">recommended\nthat those 51 and older use vitamin B12-fortified foods or a vitamin B12\nsupplement to meet most of their vitamin B12 requirement rather than relying on\neggs or other foods with naturally occurring vitamin B12<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier blog post on vitamin B12 for older adults, I wrote that \u201cvitamin B12 is poorly absorbed from eggs.\u201d Thanks to a reader who pointed out that a recent study found that vitamin B12 absorption from eggs is higher than was previously thought. This study used a different method to examine vitamin B12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14737,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736\/revisions\/14737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}