Welcome to Our Head House. This is Marianne Sullivan. And this is Jasmine Singer. And this week, Jasmine will be chatting with Maria Sebron about an issue, I think a lot of us, at least I, and I imagine a lot of you as well, struggle with every single morning.

What vitamins and minerals should vegans take in order to obtain optimum nutrition?

Maria is the co-founder and CEO of Terra Seed, a vegan vitamin company.

Yeah, this was a pretty fascinating interview.

It's not a subject that we have talked about a lot.

And I want to reference this VEG News article from less than a year ago that we'll put in the show

notes because it really goes into detail about this report that was authored by the Animal Save Movement

and Teresee that came out last year.

And basically, it talked about the fact that the supplement industry has a huge impact on animals,

and there are over 24 billion animals killed for supplements every year,

and that there is a lack of transparency in disclosing these animal-derived ingredients,

which I think is really fascinating because this is just not talked about. And the industry

itself is worth $55 billion. So there is a whole lot of work that Tereseed is doing, along with

other organizations organizations to create

transparency around this because even longtime vegans don't know about it like me. That is really

crazy. I mean, I knew you were going to talk to her about like what vitamins we should be taking,

but this is a much, there's a much more going on here than just, just that question. Not that

question isn't important,

and I hope you all took your B12 today.

By the way, I'm glad you mentioned that

because I just got my blood work back today.

I had blood work done yesterday, and I just got it back.

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