Meat eaters are certainly not going to be more likely to be B12
deficient if vegans aren't even eating it.
Not exact matches
If you follow a strict vegetarian or
vegan diet, or you've had gastric bypass surgery, your breast milk will most likely be
deficient in vitamin B12.
B12 deficiency can actually start in infancy
if mothers of breastfed babies have undiagnosed pernicious anemia, are
vegan, celiac, or B12
deficient in any way.
However,
if you don't eat meat or shellfish, and especially,
if you're on a strict
vegan or vegetarian diet, it's very possible that you're zinc
deficient and that zinc supplementation could help restore normal hormone levels.
Note:
If you eat a
vegan diet, you are likely to be dangerously
deficient in vitamin B12.
If you look at the following (old) NutritionFacts video,
vegans tend to be
deficient in 3 nutrients and vitamin A is not one of those nutrients.
Vitamin K2 deficiency can disrupt the balance and function that vitamin D and calcium play inside your body (causing inappropriate calcification in your body
if you're
deficient in K2) and can lead to arterial calcification in
vegans that ignore this important nutrient.
Many animals on a
vegan diet run the risk of nutritional deficiency as there is a potential for
vegan or home - cooked diets to be
deficient in vitamins, essential amino acids, mineral and trace elements
if they are not formulated or added into their meals.