Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet by Gabriel Cousens

Author:Gabriel Cousens
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Body, Nutrition, New Age movement, Fasting, Kundalini, Christian Life, Ku??alin?, Diet, General, Religion, Spiritual life, Mind & Spirit, Shakras
ISBN: 9780961587529
Publisher: Cassandra Press
Published: 1986-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

B12 in Food

Up until this time, many of us have felt that additional supplementation for live-food practitioners with sea vegetables or probiotic formulas was sufficient protection against B12 deficiency. This does not seem to be the case, according to research. Among macrobiotics, who primarily cook their food, we see a very high percentage of children actually having growth retardation due to low B12 intake. Many of us have felt that spirulina, aphazonimom-flo-aque (AFA), and all the sea vegetables had enough active B12 to avoid a B12 deficiency. Although the research is not fully in, we do know that, as pointed out in Conscious Eating, these substances do have human active B12. The problem is they also have a significant amount of analogue B12 that competes with the human active B12. This analogue amount was not measured in the author's studies that were presented in Conscious Eating. Using the MMA excretion approach, which is now the gold standard, research showed that when people used dry-roasted and raw nori from Japan, the dry-roasted nori actually made the MMA status worse, which means it actually reduced the B12 level. Therefore, dry-roasted nori could possibly worsen a B12 deficiency. Raw nori seemed to keep the MMA at the same level, meaning it did not harm the B12 status, but the research showed it did not particularly help it either. No food in Europe or the U.S. that has been tested shows it lowers MMA. Research absolutely has to be done to answer this question fully. The author is hopeful that the gold standard level of research in the future will reveal an authentic, natural, B12, vegan food. Already, Vision Industries, Inc., is interested in doing this level of B12 research with AFA.

Many vegan foods have been suggested that may have active B12, but few are proving to actually raise B12 levels or prevent its loss.50,51,52 The research has shown, for example, that tempeh (cultured soy) does not supply human active B12. Research in both the U.S. and the Netherlands has confirmed this.53 One paper, by Areekul et al. in Thailand in 1990,54 howed that tempeh from one particular source in Thailand did have some B12 analogue, but that fermented soybean did not contain B12 and Klebsiella pneumoniae was isolated from the commercial tempeh starter. Other foods such as barley, malted syrup, sourdough bread, parsley, shitake mushrooms, tofu, and soybean paste, had some B12 in them but did not seem to alter B12 status. Amazake rice, barley miso, miso, natto, rice miso, shoyu, tamari, umeboshi, and a variety of nuts, seeds, and grains did not contain any elements or even any detectable B12 analogue. The author's study using the earlier gold standard test of using B12 active bacteria to determine human active B12 did show indeed that arame, dulse, kelp, kombu, and wakame had significant human active B12. But research suggests they have higher analogue concentrations, which may cancel their human B12 effect. A study done in 1991 by Miller found that serum B12 appeared

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