I have been demented after eating vegetarian food for a long time! It turns out that it is lacking in vitamin B12, eating more foods can help you

 8:33am, 10 July 2025

Many people eat vegetarians and vegetables due to health or various factors. Big artists in the entertainment industry, such as Zhang Xueyou, Liu Dehua, etc., are also long-term vegetarians. However, doctors remind that eating vegetarian food for a long time can easily lead to vitamin B12 deficiency. You may not have expected that eating vegetarian food may cause you to suffer from dementia!

There are many pathogenic factors for dementia. Some doctors have shared that neurologic clinics often see patients with deficiency of vitamin B12, which leads to memory decline and early dementia. Most of the dementia-type diseases are becoming more and more obvious and irreversible; Fortunately, this kind of dementia caused by eating disorders can be improved and reversed by eating and supplementing B12.

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(2) The Zhongle nerve is infected: such as HIV, syphilis spiral, etc., which may invade the Zhongle nerve in the brain, causing the brain to be dementia.

(3) Autoimmune diseases: such as red-spotted wolf complications.

(4) Nutritional inequality: lack of leaf acid, vitamins such as B1, B2, B6, B12.

(5)Correction misalignment: related to hypothyroidism, diabetes, liver function, and kidney function, or imbalance in the body's electrolysis quality.

(6) Infringement of toxic substances: drug poisoning, alcohol poisoning, heavy metal dyeing such as aluminum food utensils, etc.

(7) Depression, long-term stress-induced pseudo-dementia.

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Who is prone to deficiency of vitamin B12?

1. Vegetarians

B12 is rich in animal protein, such as fish, meat, eggs and milk products. B12 deficiency is commonly seen in vegetarians. Eating vegetarians for a long time is more likely to cause vitamin B12 deficiency, resulting in blood numbness, numbness of hands, memory loss, and dementia.

2. People who eat too lightly and rarely eat red meat

Some people who are old may have poor teeth and poor appetite, and they also feel that they should "nurture". Their diet becomes particularly light and they do not eat meat, which is also prone to lack of vitamin B12.

3. Long-term use of drugs: Patients using gastric drugs, double guanidine diabetes drugs or multiple drugs will also be affected by the absorption of vitamin B12 due to the drug, resulting in a lack of symptoms.

What are the symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency?

Early symptoms are unknown and usually only feel burnout. If vitamin B12 is deficient in long-term vitamin B12, which is not supplemented in time or treated with drugs, it may lead to permanent neuropathy, such as dementia.

●Slightly symptomatic: fatigue, blood, inflammation of the tongue, gastritis, memory reduction

●Severely symptomatic: neuropathy changes, numbness, weakness and pain, and some patients will experience unstable walking like brain diseases, such as brain disease. Others can even cause irreversible neurologic injury and lead to dementia. Depression, mental confusion, etc.

Vegetarians lack vitamin B12, how to adjust their diet?

Vegetarians are prone to lack of protein, B12, iron, calcium and other nutrients. The National Health Administration recommends that the daily dietary guide for vegetarians should cover six major foods: all kinds of foods, dairy products, beans (eggs), vegetables, fruits, oils and fruit seeds, to supplement various nutrients required. Vegetarians recommend that they contain at least 1 dark vegetables, 1 mushroom and algae food every day. For those who consume 1200 calories in hot daily, it is recommended to include at least 1.5 servings of dark vegetables. Take at least one portion of seaweed and use iodized salt to increase the source of iodine.

In terms of B12, the vitamin B12 content of seaweed in algae is high, and you can get enough vitamin B12 by taking 0.3 portions of dried seaweed (about 3 grams, 1 sheet of seaweed soap skin size). Usually, you can eat more seaweed, seaweed, kohlrabi, etc., such as eating 1 sheet of seaweed from the sausage a day, and the amount will be almost enough. In addition, nutritionists also suggest that drinking more buttermilk and milk can also help replenish.