The Second Most Common Vitamin Deficiency

In America, over 40% of the population is vitamin B12 deficient.  Vitamin B12 deficiency is the second most common vitamin deficiency in the Western World.[1]  Why is this?  First vitamin B12 is not an abundant vitamin in our food.  But that is not a problem because we were designed to receive B12 from certain friendly bacteria in our guts, which we acquire by drinking our mother’s milk. However non-breast-fed children will not have this advantage nor will they have as strong of an immune system as people who were breast-fed. Breast-fed children naturally acquire the correct bacteria, but a majority of people have lost it.  Without the correct bacteria we become subject to all sorts of potential deficiencies and health problems.

Conventional medicine tends to focus on retrieving B12 from our diet, but that is ignoring the main issues. This is one of their reasons why they think we need to eat animal products, because they contain some B12. Hundreds of millions of people in India are vegetarians and it is rare for them have a B12 deficiency. Why?  Because, in spite of the greater hardships in obtaining clean food, they are healthier then Americans, never had antibiotics and never lost their natural-to-humans friendly bacteria.

If we want good health, it is imperative that we have the correct type of friendly bacteria in our guts; the type that creates B12, which are certain species of bifidobacterium.  Sadly, a very large percentage of people do not have the correct bacteria and most of these people have become overweight or obese. The predominant bacteria in obese people are Lactobacillus (high-lactic acid-producing), which is the most common probiotics sold on the market.  The dominant bacteria in lean and healthy people arebifidobacteria and they do not have as many health challenges that other people do.

With those who the correct bacteria as a child, why are so many of them vitamin B12 deficient, and how did they lose their natural-to-humans friendly bacteria?  There are two main reasons:  Poor diet and Antibiotics. Subsisting on a poor diet, such as the SAD (Standard American Diet), eventually destroys and mutates a normal intestinal environment.  An environment, whether it is in the world around us or within us, always determines what specie will live there. By eating foods that are completely unnatural to humans, we automatically change our gut microbials, from health producing to health issue producing.  I would estimate that over 80% of the American population fits this profile.

As for Antibiotics…anti means against, and biotic means life. Thus, anti-biotics means anti-life; against life and that is exactly what so many drugs are; against life.  They are extreme unnatural chemicals, and I mean over 90% of all the drugs doctors use, were not part of the human design.  Drugs, not just anti-biotics, are unnatural chemicals that have become the number one cause of death and disease in the US.

Link to Gary Null’s website.   http://www.garynull.com/home/death-by-medicine-reviewed-in-the-clinton-chronicle.html