I know you work hard to make the best lifestyle choices so you can improve your health

destiny and longevity, and there's lots of information out there on how to do just that.

So where do you start?

Well we start with the facts.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

My job is to bring you the latest peer reviewed nutrition and health research and share it

with you here.

Today on the show, the mighty vitamin B12, did you know?

B12 is an essential nutrient that your body can't make useably on its own so you need to

get it from your diet or supplements.

Today we start with the best green light sources of B12.

A regular reliable source of vitamin B12 is critical for anyone eating a plant-based diet,

either vitamin B12 supplements or vitamin B12 fortified foods.

I'm talking about my B12 supplement recommendations, either 50 micrograms a day or once a week

doses of 2000 micrograms.

I think that's the simplest, cheapest way, taking it once a week, that's how I do it.

But if you don't want to take supplements, you'd have to rely on B12 fortified foods, in

which case you'd have to eat three separate servings of B12 fortified foods, each ideally

containing at least 190% of the so-called daily value on the product's nutrition facts

level.

How does that make any sense?

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