{"id":4662,"date":"2013-07-26T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T14:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2013-07-26T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T14:25:03","slug":"b12-doses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/26\/b12-doses\/","title":{"rendered":"B12 Doses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader asked about taking B12 in excess of what we mentioned in our My Vegan Plate. Here&#8217;s the response from Reed Mangels, PhD, RD:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/MyVeganPlate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">MyVeganPlate<\/a> page suggests taking 25 micrograms of vitamin B12 daily if you don&#8217;t regularly use foods fortified with vitamin B12. It can be difficult to find a low-dose vitamin B12 supplement. It would be fine to take a supplement that has 100 micrograms of vitamin B12 daily. We&#8217;re able to provide a bit more detail on our website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutrition\/b12.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutrition\/b12.php<\/a>) and in the newest edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/catalog\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=1&#038;products_id=1\" target=\"_blank\">Simply Vegan<\/a> where we suggest taking a daily vitamin B12 supplement of 25-100 micrograms or a twice weekly vitamin B12 supplement of 1000 micrograms. The more vitamin B12 you take, the lower the percent that your body absorbs. So, if you take a high dose supplement, the vitamin B12 that is not absorbed simply passes through your intestines and is excreted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The contents of this website and our other publications, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\">Vegetarian Journal<\/a>, are not intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. We often depend on product and ingredient information from company statements. It is impossible to be 100% sure about a statement, info can change, people have different views, and mistakes can be made. Please use your best judgment about whether a product is suitable for you. To be sure, do further research or confirmation on your own.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader asked about taking B12 in excess of what we mentioned in our My Vegan Plate. Here&#8217;s the response from Reed Mangels, PhD, RD: Our MyVeganPlate page suggests taking 25 micrograms of vitamin B12 daily if you don&#8217;t regularly use foods fortified with vitamin B12. It can be difficult to find a low-dose vitamin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","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=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}