Vitamin B12 - My Experience

Heres a quote from Webmd.com

It also talks about how it is vital for the nervous system, so I can see its impact on dream vividness and conciousness. Its definitally not dangerous, and if you are a strict vegitarian you should take supplements anyway. Hope this info helps, ~ben

I was vegetarian for the first 15 years of my life and B12 was no problem. There is enough in dairy and eggs. However being vegan the B12 content of plants is very unreliable, apparently because of the introduction of new farming methods (by this I think it means using fertilizers and pesticides etc). I understand that lots of B12 is not dangerous, but the tablets I have at the minute contain 1,2,3,5,6 and 11 as well. As Ed said, too much B6 is dangerous. There is a warning on the side of the box saying “Do not excede the recommended dosage”. I guess the best things would be tablets with just 11 and 12 in (seeing as 11 helps absorption) Is too much 11 dangerous too?

I drank lots of mint tea and took two vit B tablets before I went to bed, however I noticed no improvement in dream recall :grrr: (ok, maybe that was coz I had eaten 2 hemp leaves that day (long story… we found a huge field full of it etc.) :cool_laugh: )

Hey, you found a huge field of HEMP? This would probably be hemp for making clothes i assume? Funny, i also found a hemp plantation in France once when i was on a holliday there hehe… i didt try to smoke it though…

By the way, Foolish, I was first with my quote :grin:

So i suggest you take another one (Lao Tzu has plenty cool ones), or if you realy cant come up with anything i will have to change it, because 2 ppl with the same signature is a bit lame imo hehe… :cool_laugh:

Hey Xetrov, if you go to my MSN profile the quote is there, I’ve had it for months :tongue: However I do agree that two ppl with the same sig is pretty LAME and I am willing to change it for another Lao Tze quote. (Edit: found one! Yay)

Yeah, my mum and dad keep trying to pursuade me the hemp wouldn’t be any good, (how do they know?! :bored: ) but it smells pretty strong to me. One of my stoner friends came with me and took a few “samples” (ok, it was a rucksack full) and he reckons it’s probably fairly good. I tried chewing it and sticking it under my tongue for about 15 mins like it describes on the salvia site, but not a lot happened. Things just went a bit slower. The field is MASSIVE! if it is good, it would be worth millions. No, hundreds of millions!

Hey, maybe that is why cheese helps you to recall dreams well (or whatever it is good for, being vegan I havent payed much attention to the cheese threads). Maybe the B12 in it causes this. Actually now we come to mention it, it’s only since I became vegan that my dreams have been boring and blurry. Hmmmm… must get decent B12 tablets!!

If you want to know if the hemp is potent :grin: collect some buds, quick dry them (like this) and pack a bowl…if you get nothing but a headache…you can always smoke some other hehe.

Foolish, I buy most of my vitamins from Holland & Barrett:
https://www.hollandandbarrett.com

They are a UK company, but if you don’t live in the UK, they do ship overseas. Just click “How to Order” near the red question mark, and then it mentions a number you can call for overseas orders.

Prices…

B12:
1000mcg, 100 tablets = £7.19

B6:
100mg, 100 tablets = £2.79
100mg, 250 tablets = £5.99

ok, I’m not all that experienced with hemp, are the buds just the bits with the unopened flowers in, or are they the young leafy bits?? I am guessing the former, in which case the plants have none.

Yes, I do live in the UK :smile:

However I have a thing against Holland and Barrett; weused to know some people who ran a health food shop, Holland and Barrett set up a shop just round the corner from these people. After making their prices lower and lower, forcing our friends to go lower and lower, they put in an offer to buy their shop. They didn’t take it and they are still there :happy: However I try to avoid buying from H&B still. We have a good health food shop nearby so I’ll have a look there. Only problem now… I have over a hundred of the vit B complex tablets to use up before I can get any more. :shy:

Yes buds are the flowering tops. If you can’t find any then they haven’t start flowering yet I guess.

Foolish, well that’s entirely up to you, it’s not my place to tell you where to shop.

Good to see a fellow Brit. Which part of the UK do you live? You know where I live, because it says on my profile.

:cool:

I live in Rugby in Warwickshire. Not far from coventry :smile: Sorry about my ranting earlier, I was bored and had nothing better to do.

No worries, don’t be sorry. :cool:

Ok, I wont be :smile:

I guess that’s the real field of dreams.

And yes I’m aware of the lateness of this reply…

Hehe, you could say that Mabus. I chewed up one leaf and stuck it under my tongue for about 15 mins, then did the same with a new leaf. It didn’t really have much of an effect, things went a bit slower and i felt slightly euphoric (but I’m a happy kinda person and I was riding through some really nice countryside, that always makes me feel good) someone I know dried out the leaves and smoked them… she said they were of middling quality. Hmm, i might have to try making some tea soon. :grin:

No foolish, vit b11 or folic acid is not dangerous if u take to much of it.
Its water soluable.

Jeff

E-e-e-excelent Smithers

I have these tasty lozenges.
400mcg folic acid
1000mcg B12

It seems to be helping the vividness. :content:
But its not noticable yet.
I guess it takes time.

-Crowe

What is folic acid? And how are high doses of b6 dangerous? I thought that was only if taken over a period of months in high doses, not just once or twice… :eh:

It might be a good idea to include a lot of information like possible dangers or availability and stuff like that if someone (Jeff :grin: ) should ever collect those shortcuts. :wiske:

Good idea Fabi! :smile:
Well the books say below 150 mg of b6 is still safe…some say higher like 200 or 250 mg
But ehm i tried many dosages and it just helps a bit, so i say 50 mg is high enough…more helps very little to gain more often lucidity.
b6 is just a little aid anyway…not a big step.
Thats why i use as good b complex.,then u got all at once.

Folic acid is vit b 11…you need it to absorb vit b12 good!

Greetz,
Jeff