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Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is part of the group of the water-soluble vitamins. Cobalamin is, comes in animal foods formed by microorganisms with few exceptions (pickled cabbage and sea buckthorn). The bacteria in the human intestine flora also can produce them but only in a small quantity. You can be stored in the liver. Vitamin B12 has 12 active cobalamin connections.
It happens mainly in animal products like meat, innardses, fish, eggs, and dairy products. Cobalamin plays a central role in the metabolism particularly in folic acid metabolism and in the formation of red blood cells.
Deficiency symptoms appear only after long time, however, can lead reflex and memory disturbances to anemia, damage done to the nervous system, back formation of tongues, stomach, and mouth mucosa. Veganer and vegetarians are endangered particularly !!!
The minimum need is approx. 3 mg.
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