The Clinical Effects of a B12 Deficiency

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You can only absorb about a day's worth of B12 at a time. The average person is just barely scraping by the RDA. If you're trying to get like max out your B12 storage with liver, clams and oysters, you don't actually need to eat that much. And so one person might go deficient right away when they go vegan because their stores are terrible.

Chris Masterjohn earned his PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut in 2012. He served as a postdoctoral research associate in the Comparative Biosciences department of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From August 2014 to December 2016, he served as Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York.

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