Cobalamin is the scientific name for vitamin B12, one of the vitamin B complex that was assembled in 1948. Crystals of these nutrients, also known as cyanocobalamin, bright red color, and this is why sometimes referred to as the red vitamin. It is soluble in water, so can not be stored in the body as long as the food fat soluble, which makes it necessary to get them on a daily basis. Most of cobalamin in the body, however, it is stored in the liver. Children can not store these nutrients as long as adults can.Unlike other B complex vitamins, and natural form of cobalamin is not present in plants that are commonly consumed as foods. Alfalfa herb dong quai and Chinese, however, does not provide vitamin very small amounts. Strict vegetarians, vegans also called, are at risk for developing cobalamin deficiency because meat and dairy products are the only foods that provide them. And advised people who choose to follow a strict vegetarian diet to taking the supplement cobalamin. Vitamin B12 is generally sold in the United States in the form of pills that are taken with the liquid, preferably at meal times, in the form under the tongue, and both are available in health food stores and pharmacies. Tablets under the tongue and are usually very small, and held under the tongue until it melts completely, rather than chewed or taken with liquid, such as traditional birth control pills. Other people who could develop into a lack of cobalamin even if they eat meat are those who suffer from a lack of what is known as intrinsic factor - a gift of a special protein in gastric juice. Between 30 percent and absorbs 70 percent of cobalamin from the food when intrinsic factor is sufficient. When you are deficient, a condition known as pernicious anemia develops inevitably.
