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Originally Posted by Debrah

If you quit eating meat at a particular point, you have enough B12 stored in your liver to last at 'top' levels for about 6 years, but at about 20 the store is depleted. Unfortunately, by that time, the damage is done and dementia will have to become your friend. So don't quit supplementing B12. Go ahead and get everything else strictly from your diet, but B12 is non-negotiable. That is what I've been reading and I've also read in a number of instances, that researchers have found frequently, that veg'ns are deficient in B12.

As well, I can't help but wonder if it isn't possible that those Indian veg'n who never supplemented, didn't frequently lead agricultural lives or had food prepared for them by people who worked in the soil and if they didn't get their B12 needs met because hygiene was not what we live with today? Dirty, soiled hands that haven't been sanitized would have 'contaminated' the foods consumed and B12 is a bacteria that grows in the soil.

I find myself thinking that any diet that requires mandatory supplementation to stay healthy on doesn't sound like a diet anyone should be eating.