| You are on a vegetarian diet, living the | | | | proliferate in the colon, but that the cells were |
| Hippocrates health lifestyle ... are you getting all | | | | unable to absorb it. According to the medical |
| you need? | | | | community, this rich source of B-12 is unavailable |
| In the area of vegetarian diet, are you getting all | | | | to the body and therefore useless for preventing |
| the nutrition you need if you are eating 80% raw | | | | diseases caused by B-12 deficiency. |
| organic vegetables and growing sprouts? | | | | Historically, the vitamin b12 you need was |
| Almost everyone has a vitamin b12 deficiency, | | | | produced by your body, but not anymore. We |
| and this includes meat eaters who think they are | | | | have weakened our bodies over several |
| getting plenty of b12. | | | | generations with our modern lifestyle. |
| Dr. Brian Clement and his staff at the Hippocrates | | | | In fact Dr. Brian Clement proposes that there |
| Health Institute have been collecting the blood | | | | have been anatomical changes in the human large |
| profiles of hundreds of people in part to analyze | | | | intestine. Observing sketches, and, in later years, |
| their level of B-12 (cobalamin). In May 2005, it | | | | photographs, of the colon, he believes that there |
| came to the attention of his staff that urine and | | | | was a defined pocket protruding just below the |
| cell specific analysis for B-12 deficiencies were far | | | | ileo-cecal valve that released predigested food |
| superior to the standard blood review. | | | | from the small intestine into the large intestine. |
| They then set out on a research mission that has | | | | B-12 was ingested and absorbed by consuming |
| now accrued several hundred nutrient-specific | | | | biological foods grown in naturally fertilized soil |
| tests. It was discovered that well over half the | | | | where the nutrient was unaltered by pesticides, |
| population tested was lacking this essential | | | | fungicides, herbicides, and the heating process. |
| nutrient. This inspired an investigation that led Dr. | | | | When this bacterially rich nutritious substance |
| Brian Clement to research the gastro-intestinal | | | | temporarily housed itself in the protruding pocket, |
| tract itself. After many hours in medical archives, | | | | it acted as an organic fertilization factory. |
| he thinks he has discovered the core of why B-12 | | | | Unfortunately, from 1700, and every 50 years |
| is absent. | | | | forward to 2005 there appears to be a |
| In the past, it was thought that B-12, and more | | | | continuous decrease in the size of this protruding |
| specifically the bacteria that produces it, could be | | | | pocket until its near absence was apparent in the |
| found in foods such as blue-green algae, green | | | | early 20th century. In the past, this bacterium |
| algae, tempeh, etc. The assumption was that | | | | cultured and re-cultured itself, providing the |
| when these foods were consumed, you would | | | | nutrient in a sustainable and adequate form to |
| receive cyanocobalamin, a soil-based bacteria, | | | | maintain appropriate and sufficient levels of B-12 in |
| precursor to human bioactive B-12. | | | | the body. |
| Unfortunately, recent research has surfaced | | | | B-12 deficiency can affect the production of the |
| indicating that the human body does not possess | | | | essential myelin sheath that insulates each |
| the ability to absorb the B-12 found in plant | | | | neuronal cell from those surrounding it. Without |
| sources. | | | | this sheath, neuronal cells and the neurological |
| It was also thought that carnivores and | | | | system itself can literally short out to a greater or |
| lacto-consumers received B-12 from the animal | | | | lesser extent, producing symptoms from |
| fare they consumed. However Dr. Brian Clement | | | | numbness and tingling to a complete loss of |
| has found that meat and dairy consumers suffer | | | | sensation and motor function. |
| the same level of B-12 deficiency as vegetarian | | | | Alzheimer's, dementia and Parkinson's are |
| and vegans. | | | | examples of what havoc the absence this |
| His hypothesis is that the processed and cooked | | | | bacterial nutrient plays on the body. |
| animal foods contain a neutered B-12 that is no | | | | From this research, it is Dr. Brian Clement's |
| more able to fulfill the bodyâEUR(TM)s | | | | scientific and professional opinion that every man, |
| nutritional need for B-12 than a vegetarian or | | | | woman, and child should supplement their diet with |
| vegan diet. | | | | a bacterial form of a nutraceutical B-12. |
| Allopathic medicine teaches that there are plentiful | | | | This is one of the key supplements even for |
| amounts of B-12, its source being bacteria that | | | | those on the best raw foods vegetarian diet. |