Foods That Contain Vitamin B12

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ashleigh Gass, strengthening and conditioning specialist with BrilliantAthlete.com. Vitamin B12 is actually known as cyanocobalamin. What it's used for in the body is to help with cell regeneration, that's just one of its very many functions. It's found in abundance in animal foods, like eggs, chicken, fish, any and all raw dairy, and other sources of meet. Now, vegetarians can be opening themselves up to deficiencies in vitamin B12, and symptoms of this include fatigue, and lethargy. So if you've recently changed to more vegetarian life style, which usually cuts out most animal products, you've got to make sure that you've got your bases covered and are getting vitamin B12, and your other vitamins and minerals, of course, from food sources like dark, leafy green vegetables, legumes, lentils, and other products like that. Now, if you're eating a diet that's higher in processed packaged foods, so in other words, if most of what you're eating comes from a box or a plastic bag, or a fast food restaurant, you're going to be in trouble fairly quickly. You've got to really replace these foods with fruits and vegetables. So, if you're a vegetarian and you're starting to run in to symptoms of fatigue and just feeling very low energy during the day, you wan to start to educate yourself on sources of vitamins and minerals, and vitamin B12 not coming from animal products. For more information on this, you can contact me directly at BrilliantAthlete.com."