Right now, If I could take any vitamin out to dinner and a movie I'd take Vitamin B12

For all the Nutrition n00bs out there,

I am a vitamin junkie. These are reasons why I take Vitamin B complex supplements every other day.

Vitamin B-12

• It is donates methyl and aids folic acid in the synthesis of DNA and red blood cells.
• It helps form the myelin sheaths around the nerve cells in the body.
• A low level of vitamin B12 has been associated with depression and a severe deficiency has shown neurological dysfunction similar to Dementia (which makes sense if the insulators around your nerves are depleted causing them to fire off each other like electrial wires)
• The red blood cells that the vitamin helps to make carry more oxygen throughout the body.

Photo taken from About.com/chemistry

You can find Vitamin B12 in liver, kidneys (which makes sense because that's where they are stored in the body), chicken, eggs, some kinds of fish, and milk products.
It is a hard vitamin to absorb so a lot is needed and it is water soluble so it is easier to get rid of excess.

I got most my information from this site http://www.yourhealthbase.com/vitamin_B12.html which seems reliable since it was written by a person with a Master of Science and who is a chemical engineer.

Vegetarians and old people need it!

-Jeffy

UPDATE:

Just learned in Anatomy and Physiology that Vitamin B12 is digested through the large intestine and it is one of the main elements in making HEME PIGMENT in the blood. Heme pigment is the part of the red blood cell that can't be recycled so the body has to make it. Our bodies don't make B12 either. So more B12 = more heme pigment = more red blood cells = a whole lot of O2.