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Have any of y'all ever had any issues with B12 deficiencies?
I recently got some blood work done because I was feeling unusually exhausted, and my labs came back showing slight B12 anemia.
I've been hitting a B Complex, B12, and Iron supplement each night with a Magnesium and Potassium tonic for about a week. Hoping I start feeling myself again soon!
I was just curious to share my experience to see if any Anons have been in a similar situation.
methyl folate
I should have also said: look up people on YT who talk about their b12 deficiencies. That helped me a lot.
So did this product:
"Ancestral Supplements Grass Fed Beef Liver (Desiccated)"
Sublinguals helped for the major deficiency but now I maintain by eating encapsulated liver and spleen and cow blood.
That company also makes a spleen/liver/cow blood blend or you can just go straight liver. No taste.
Yes!
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Please watch this documentary!
I’ve had chronic B12 deficiency over the last twenty years. It started a few years after chronic pain diagnosis. I wonder if it was from the health condition or the medicines depleting my system. One of my most trusted doctors (very few) told me the B12 pills don’t work. Only the B12 injections or a sublingual B12 pill is effective. I’m not an expert or doctor. It’s hard to find B12 sublingual, only a few companies sell it. Vitamin D, magnesium & potassium deficiency is very common also. Ask a doctor to run magnesium blood work and they think you are crazy. Most people are magnesium deficient. Magnesium oil spray or body butter works as good as a pill. Even soaking in epsom salt & magnesium flakes will help. Epsom salt contains magnesium if you don’t have mag flakes the salt is sufficient. If you can’t get tub a foot soak will do.
Find a local health-conscious infusion center, and you can get your B12 shots. You can either have them done there, or sometimes they’ll prescribe them and you can do them at home. That will really help you a lot. My mom does it she’s in her 80s. If you have insurance they’re fairly inexpensive
I eat braunschweiger on sandwiches or even just with toast and eggs. It's really good and you don't have to cook it.
I think the sub lingual B12 is absorbed easier. Iron needs Vit.C to be absorbed. My son was a non meat eater (ate fish, dairy, and eggs, so not a vegetarian), he decided to stop eating warm blooded animals from age 15-20, became low in B12, sarted eating red meat again and took the supplemental sub lingual drops for a month, and everything came back good. Liver cooked in bacon with onions, then put in a food processor makes a yummy spread, add garlic, its good if you dont want to eat the liver "steak style". They also have dessicated liver capsules.
I would say chicken, saute in butter with onion and garlic, salt to taste, calf liver is better than beef, but its not that easy to find.
I prefer lamb's liver, pigs liver stinks.
Might have to see if I can source some.
How do you cook it though? Stew? Sauté?
I've never been an organ meat eater, but I might have to start acquiring the taste. I'd rather no have to supplement nutrients if I don't have to.
Liverwurst. Yum
Yes. Braunschweiger 😁
Mom did. Severe leg pain. I think they call it restless leg syndrome? Google and found some nurses talking about B12 she took it feels much better
If it is leg cramp, Magnesium works also.
I will tell her. Thank you