Christian,

>This B-12 - digestion connection sounds very interesting to me. Is
>supplementing B-12 a safe way to overcome those problems?

It will correct the B-12 deficiency, but not necessarily the poor
digestion.  For that, you need fasting or perhaps prolonged calorie
restriction.

>Has anybody experiences with such supplements? B-12 alone or complex?
Dose?

B-12 alone is sufficient.  I've seen the pills in 1 mg and 500 microgram
sizes.  The body uses only 1-2 micrograms/day, so either dose of a single
pill represents a year's suppy, but it wouldn't hurt to take them
once/month or even once/week. for awhile.  Brewer's yeast is another
vegan food that contains it, which I neglected to mention before, but all
brewer's yeast is cooked (pasteurized), not raw, and the vitamin B-12 is
not native to the yeast anyway, it is added as an artificial supplement
to the yeast by the manufacturer.  But if you prefer to get your B-12 in
a food-like way without eating RAF (liver would be the best choice ---
that's where people and animals store their spare supplies of B-12), then
maybe take some nutritional yeast.

>As I was strongly influenced by NH and others in the last three years,
>'artificial' vitamin was a bad thing to me. Maybe it is not?

In today's artificial world, with enervating poisons in the air we
breathe, the food we eat, the electromagnetic pollution, and so forth, we
sometimes have to make a few compromises.

Bob Avery ([log in to unmask])