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Vitamin B12 for Vegans (not low dose)

  • 10-08-2018 9:39am
    #1
    Nalz
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    Hi folks,

    Anyone know where I can buy B12 tablets in Dublin that would be sufficient for vegans? Preferably one I could take weekly. I've been to several health shops and chemists and no joy. People are recommending cyanocobalamin?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    davidjtaylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭davidjtaylor


    You can buy 1-a-day tablets online from The Vegan Society, here.

    Sorry, I'm not sure about weekly tablets. As a long-term vegan, I recently got my B12 levels checked and they're fine, without deliberate supplements, so I've not had to worry!


  • #3
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    As far as I know, Cyanocobalamin IS Vitamin B12, (a form of)

    Good survey of the issue here:
    http://www.bloomnutritionist.com/blog/2016/07/28/vitamin-b12

    Looks like cyanocobalamin would be ok to take as long as you're not a smoker.


  • #4
    Nalz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,890 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    Cool thanks!

    If anyone has a link or recommendation for weekly tablets please let me know.


  • #5
    Tar.Aldarion
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    https://ie.iherb.com/pr/Solgar-Sublingual-Vitamin-B12-1000-mcg-250-Nuggets/8641
    1000ug tablets but I'd recommend twice a week over once a week, not sure you could absorb enough regularly with once a week with any tablets.
    Get a doctor to check your levels after a while, whatever you do.


  • #6
    Mentalmiss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭Mentalmiss


    Solgar also do a Methylcobalamin (which is what I take) and they do it in a 5000mcg which would do you to take once a week.

    https://ie.iherb.com/pr/Solgar-Sublingual-Methylcobalamin-Vitamin-B12-5000-mcg-60-Nuggets/14221


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  • #7
    Robert333111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭Robert333111


    Contributor "davidjtaylor" gave a Link to the "Vegetarian Society" for their supplement "Veg1", which contains B12 as Cyanocobalamin (as stated on another webpage on the same V.S. website).

    Wikipedia states that Cyanocobalamin is:
    Quote: '[…] produced by bacterial fermentation'.
    I am not yet allowed to post Links but the reader can locate the above quote by using their search engine to search for (without the double-quotes):
    "cyanocobalamin AND Wikipedia"




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