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Comment on Pre-Type 2 Diabetes and Lean Vegans by Jill Ducey

Jill Ducey — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:12:14 +0000

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Comment on Nori Lowers Serum MMA Levels among Vegetarians by Kiki

Kiki — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 01:12:45 +0000

Also, we need to be aware that continuing to eat these huge amounts of nori is expensive, usually, 1pack nori in Taiwan is 25g. cost TWD99(USD 3), it’s not a friendly price, in my opinion… thanks for your article. I read your works for years and learned a lot, So…I still would rather choose more reliable, affordable, and already have lots of RCT to prove is working for vegans, such as supplements.

Comment on Vitamin B12 in Plant Foods by JackNorrisRD

JackNorrisRD — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:57:58 +0000

In reply to Mykyta.

Mykyta,

I cover it in the section on Nori above: https://staging.veganhealth.org/vitamin-b12/vitamin-b12-plant-foods/#nori

Comment on Vitamin B12 in Plant Foods by Mykyta

Mykyta — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:20:03 +0000

This 2014 nori study results looks strange, could you maybe review them? HoloTC improved, MMA improved only in low dose group. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-024-03505-9

Comment on Vitamin B12 in Plant Foods by JackNorrisRD

JackNorrisRD — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:11:54 +0000

In reply to Marcus N. It definitely needs more testing before it can be considered a source of vitamin B12.

Comment on Iron by JackNorrisRD

JackNorrisRD — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:09:29 +0000

In reply to Lena.

Lena,
You’ll get some amount of iron in just about everything you eat, so you don’t need to fill the entire RDA through those foods. Once you’re off the high-dose iron supplement, you could take a multivitamin or small iron supplement to help meet the RDA. Adding a few servings of high-iron foods and vitamin C at 2-3 meals per day and meeting the RDA through a small iron supplement can improve iron status in many women.

Comment on Vegan Meats and Poor Health Outcomes by Janet Cole-Jones

Janet Cole-Jones — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:23:37 +0000

Yes, my name is Janet Cole-Jones. I’ve been Vegetarian for 32 years or those 32 years I’ve been vegan. I’ve been somewhat healthy but I am in my 80s now and I have had some health issues most of my life. I was diabetic, but through my diet I am no longer a diabetic. I have had heart issues. I’m also dealing with that and Thyroid long time actually at one point they wanted to remove It, but I still have my thyroid. I do supplements and other things to help Remove some of the stress thank you

Comment on Iron by Lena

Lena — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:26:07 +0000

Hi! I’m a little bit confused with the iron intake.
It seems like the products listed in the table don’t really have that high iron content (other than cereals that I don’t have access to).
So as a woman in my 30s I would need to eat 2 cups of boiled spinach, 1 cup of lentils and 1 cup of oatmeal every day (just an example products), just to meet my minimum intake requirements? And each one of them with the source of vitamin C.
Do I understand it correctly or did I miss something with the numbers?

I have been diagnosed with anemia recently and am now taking the high dose ferritin supplement. But I’m trying to see how I can maintain my iron level after I’m done with my supplement, so that I wouldn’t have to supplement it forever 🙂

Thank you so much for this article and I would really appreciate your help with this question

Comment on Vitamin B12 in Plant Foods by Marcus N

Marcus N — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:28:50 +0000

Hello and thank you for a good guide for vegan B12. I’ve found a recent study on the topic that might be of interest. The name is “The Seaweed Ulva Fenestrata is a High Source of Biologically Active Vitamin B12: Impact of Biomass Stabilization and Production of a New Alternative Protein Ingredient” and you can find it here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4901305
I’m not sure it there needs to be more tests on human subjects before we can assume that this is actually a viable source for vegan B12, but it is surely interesting. Especially since the amounts needed are not to big.

Comment on B12 Status of Raw Foodist Vegans by JackNorrisRD

JackNorrisRD — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:48:50 +0000

In reply to joseph. I haven't seen research looking at whether kombucha has vitamin B12, and without it, I have to presume it doesn't.